Zena Cumpston

Zena Zada Cumpston is a First Peoples (Barkandji) artist, also working regularly as a writer, researcher and consultant. She is the proud recipient of the 2026 Bandalang Artist Residency at the Australian National University. In 2026 her art will be featured across many projects, including the ‘Watch These Hands’ exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art (Narrm/Melbourne) and as part of ‘Dwell Here’ at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Zena’s art practice can be seen travelling across Narrm/Melbourne as part of the Rising Festival First Peoples Art Trams Commission 2026, and she was recently announced as a finalist in the highly prestigious Australian emerging art prize ‘The Churchie’.