The Team

Wollondilly Shire Council, Southern Tablelands Arts and its innovative team behind Macarthur's most extraordinary illuminative creation, encourages spectators to immerse themselves in what has now become one of the most exciting annual experiences on the Wollondilly cultural calendar, designed to promote public awareness and appreciation of the regions established and emerging artists.

The festival's lead digital Artist – Khaled Sabsabi is a full-time professional artist who specialises in mixed media and site-specific installation presentations. His process and practice involves working across art mediums, geographical borders and cultures to create immersive and engaging art experiences.  He see’s art as an effective tool to communicate with people, through a familiar language. Sabsabi makes work that questions; rationales and complexities of nationhood, identity and change. His practice speaks to audiences in ways that enlighten our understanding of universal dynamics which is more complex and ultimately more unknowable than our own selves.

Along with Khaled is his team of digital professionals; Jerome Pearce and Andy Ko; Illuminate also welcomes artists Eddie Abd and Gary Fleming as they set to raise the bar yet again in 2024.