Jahkarli Romanis

Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis is a proud Pitta Pitta woman and artist. Her work challenges colonial image-making practices and interrogates the biases embedded within different imaging technologies. Spanning photography, moving image and spoken word, her practice is informed by family stories, histories and institutional archival research. 

Jahkarli recently completed a PhD at Monash University through the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture. In 2025, she was the winner of the Multimedia Category at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (Telstra NATSIAA), held on Larrakia Country in Darwin. She is currently working towards her first major acquisitive commission for the National Gallery of Victoria as part of the Country Road x First Nations Commissions (2026).