Holly Farrell is a Newcastle-based creative producer and works as the Program Coordinator and Curator at The Lock-Up, Newcastle, where she works across cultural programming, production, marketing and communications. Holly has extensive experience coordinating multidisciplinary arts festivals and community led projects. From 2018–19 she co-directed the Critical Animals Creative Research Symposium as part of This is Not Art; and in 2017 co-founded the Newcastle-based arts collective BANSHEE. She has spent the past 10 years working within various public, commercial and independent arts organisations and graduated with Excellence from the Masters in Curating & Cultural Leadership at UNSW Art & Design in 2019.