Anwen Crawford

After hours, the room hosts one-off sessions, talks, and listening parties from RISING artists who you wouldn’t usually get to see up close. The lineup has been curated by Yasmine Sharaf host of Cease + Desist on Triple R and Robin Fox, co-founder and artistic director of MESS.

Anwen Crawford is a zine-maker, visual artist, and the author of No Document (Giramondo 2021), shortlisted for the Stella Prize, and Live Through This (2015). Winner of the 2021 Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, their work has appeared in publications including The Monthly, The White Review, Sydney Review of Books and The New Yorker. Anwen has also worked as a bookseller, disability carer, university tutor, school crossing guard, and communications officer, and currently works in tenant advocacy. She lives in Sydney.