Nicole Smede is a multi-disciplinary artist of Warrimay Birrbay, English, and Irish descent who works with language to reconnect to ancestry and culture through song, sound and poetry. Nicole has performed at Parliament House, City Recital Hall, Mona Foma Festival, and galleries and venues across Australia and her voice has been heard globally on award-winning film scores, and her compositions, in meditations, songs, soundscapes and music for podcasts and plays. A recipient of the inaugural Space to Create residency in 2022, in 2023 Nicole is a participant in Ngarra-Burria First Peoples Composers program and a mentee through both the APRA AMCOS Women in Music program and South Coast Writers Centre Emerging Writers program.