ONDRU (Tamil; ஒன்று) n. one, equality; v. become one with. Ondru is a place where people & ideas come together; where diversity unites.

Shane is a photographer who prefers to speak with his camera. He was born and raised in the African island of Mauritius. Fascinated by magazine and newspaper images, Shane started taking photos at the tender age of ten with a Kodak compact. At the age of fifteen, he was moved by the evocative works of Herb Ritts and has been enslaved to the art of photography ever since. He completed a Bachelor of Science (BSc) from University of South Africa and later a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) at RMIT University, Melbourne. He has been part of Ondru since the day it was founded in the backyard in North Richmond, Melbourne and has been part of numerous Ondru projects, including co-photographer of Voiceless Journeys.

Devika is an x-disciplinary artist and photographer. Their practice expands on notions of queering, materiality, and time to disrupt and examine the construction of gestures, bodies and cultural experiences, with an emphasis on diasporic South-Asian dance and ritual. Having trained in the Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam, as well as Fine Arts and Media Studies at RMIT, their art-forms span performance, moving/still image and installation in live and digital contexts. Oriented towards the cosmic and geologic, they harness participatory processes, improvisation, experimentation and listening to explore sensations of time and interconnectedness with more-than-human bodies. Devika recently completed their Honours in Fine Arts at the VCA University of Melbourne and has been part of numerous Ondru projects, including co-photographer of Voiceless Journeys.

Zsofia is a Hungarian born artist living and working in Melbourne. Her work is the reflection of an intimate relationship with the wilderness, and her belief in an all-inclusive society. Zsofia has an MA in Woven Textile Design from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary and has been practicing as an individual artist for over 15 years. She was the winner of the Hungarian Textile Triennale in 2001, finalist of the Hobart City Art Prize in 2004 and finalist of the International Art Textile Biennale 2020 Australian travelling exhibition. She completed several large scale site- specific private installations. She is a curator at Melbourne Artists for Asylum Seekers (MAFA) and currently collaborating with Ondru on the Human Thesis: Afghan Stories.

Ariana is a Melbourne-based graphic designer and illustrator, and the founder of Goatlane Design. Her interest lies in visually representing how stories form the fabric of our lives. It is her strong belief that creativity encourages human connection and serves as a means of positive social change. Ariana’s artistic sensibility was awakened in the highlands of Costa Rica’s Central Valley, where she grew up surrounded by coffee plantations. Her love of nature suffuses her work. Driven by a deep interest in the human condition, Ariana approaches her designs with intention, originality and curiosity. Over the course of her career, Ariana has worked in artistic collaboration with Ondru, developing large-scale murals for the Voiceless Journeys as well as the publication for Dhum-Djirri Ngagu.

Kathleen is a Melbourne-based Colombian experimental and contemporary artist and the founder of Tunjos y Cantaros Ethnologic Dance Company and Ethnodanceology Art. Ethnodanceology Art is the study of dance through the application of a number of disciplines including anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology and ethnography. As a producer of cross-cultural forms, Kathleen introduces the idea of multi-ethnic phases. As each phase evolves, the future diversity of the human legacy is encouraged to explore the depth of its own unique expression. Kathleen researches contemporary and interactive dance, each of which explores the wisdom of ancestral practices that weave into the emotional nature of experience. Addressing cultural exchange in ecological, political and social environments within communities continues to be a strong theme within her work. Kathleen has been an Associate Artist with Ondru since the very first project, On my way to asylum.

Sebastian Avila is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist who studied cinema and photography in Bogotá. He worked in documentaries as a sound engineer until he moved to Melbourne in 2009. Sebastian studied sound engineering while freelancing as a photographer and became an associate artist with Ondru, working as a videographer for "On my way to asylum" and director for "Shirtless Window." In 2012, Sebastian began exploring video projection and developed his aesthetics by moving between traditional fields such as video, optical effects, photography, and sound/visual synthesis. He works commercially in photography and video and researches the relationship between image and sound as one concept. Sebastian works with new technology and develops his project, Ordig, where images react to sound from digital sources and organic elements. He has presented his work internationally, in Colombia, Australia, Canada, and Malaysia.