Jamie-Lea Trindall is the Executive Director of Outback Arts, as well as a freelance curator, artist and designer with more than a decade of experience in arts and cultural strategy, project delivery and creative leadership across remote communities in far western NSW. A Wiradjuri woman, Jamie-Lea is recognised as one of Western NSW’s leading arts workers and contemporary artists, and is a founding member of the Aboriginal Regional Arts Alliance.

Raised on Wailwan Country, Jamie-Lea’s creative practice is shaped by her upbringing, the impacts of colonisation across regional NSW, and the strength and foresight of rural trailblazers. After graduating from Coonamble High School, she studied a Bachelor of Art Education, majoring in Sculpture/Installation and Photography at the University of NSW College of Fine Arts, before returning home to take on the role of Executive Director at Outback Arts.

Through her leadership, Jamie-Lea has helped build creative infrastructure, strengthen regional arts networks and support First Nations artists and communities to share stories, create work and shape cultural conversations on local, national and international platforms.

Her professional achievements include co-authoring Beyond Community Engagement: Transforming Dialogues in Arts Education and the Cultural Sphere in 2018; establishing the creative label Emu Empire in 2019; serving as Chairperson of the Create NSW Aboriginal Arts and Culture Board from 2022 to 2024; curating the Outback Arts Creative Arts Centre; co-founding the Aboriginal Regional Arts Alliance; establishing the Outback Arts Creative Arts Centre; and currently managing the renovation of The Plaza Theatre. She has served as Executive Director of Outback Arts since 2009.

Jamie-Lea’s artwork has been exhibited in major contemporary art programs and galleries, including String Theory: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in 2013; Country: Connective Understanding: A Focus Through Contemporary Aboriginal Art, a collateral event at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015; The Land is Talking at Alliance Française Sydney in 2019; the SOUTHEAST Aboriginal Art Market at Carriageworks from 2018 to present; Linear Nation alongside Uncle Sooty Welsh at Koskela in 2020; Ngayirr Nyurambang at Mudgee Regional Gallery in 2022; All Guns Blazing at Tuggeranong Arts Centre in 2024; and Dhuluny: The War That Never Ended at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2024.