Lesa lives and works in Scarborough, Queensland with her husband Gavin and two children. Lesa is committed to promoting natural fibre art forms and to the value of art in the community. Towards these ends, Lesa delivers workshops in papermaking and other fibre art forms and has initiated and directed the Botanical Book Project. As the final stage in this Project, she is currently curating the Paper and String exhibition. Lesa is also looking forward to life after the project and having the time to again become completely enmeshed in her own paper making.

Ngaire MacLeod

Since 1988, Ngaire has undertaken workshops with Wim de Vos, Jean Kropper, Adele Outteridge and Christine Ballinger.

For the last two years, Ngaire has worked with students and teachers at local schools and exhibited in the annual Papermakers of Queensland Show. Ngaire is available to run workshops with adults and primary school children.

Gavin McCullagh

Gavin has since 1997 provided administrative and project management support to Red Hot Fibre projects. Gavin has also been responsible for some of the harvesting and mechanical processing of local plant species used in the Botanical Book project papers.

Wim de Vos

Wim has exhibited regularly in Queensland, interstate and internationally since 1979. His artistic repertoire includes printmaking, painting, sculpture and artist books and he is represented in public and private collections in Australia, US, UK and the Netherlands.

Wim teaches a range of subjects including printmaking - block, relief and collagraphy.

As a printmaker, Wim believes in the process of playful story telling. A mental image translates into a two dimensional form, which will then metamorphose into a three-dimensional object. A print is an account or diary of this process of change, containing a record of mark making or surface texture on the paper and what Wim calls "crystallised sounds". Wim sees the tools of the printmaker's craft - line, aquatint and embossing - as a vehicle to investigate sound in a visual form.

Adele Outteridge

In conjunction with Wim de Vos, Adele operates the West End Studio located in West End, Brisbane, Queensland.

Maayken studied Art and Design at the Bendigo Institute of TAFE and the Kingaroy Institute of TAFE as well as continuing self designed research on paper making, paper sculpture, papier mache, pastel work and calligraphy.

Maayken's products are environments, an interactive artform combining form with poetry. The interaction between form, colour and poetry becomes the communication with those who experience the work through touch, feeling, thought and sound, adding their own windows to the room with many views within. An environment is never finished.

Kevin is also co-director of '10 Arts Exhibition Space' at Palmwoods on the Sunshine Coast, and as such he has had much experience in documenting art works. It is a field of photography in which he enjoys the challenge of producing a realistic likeness of the work.

Kevin has played a valuable role in documenting stage 1 of the Botanical Book project and in his ongoing interest in the documentation of the natural fibre plant sources that have been used in this project.

Wendy and her husband Andrew live on a property near Cooroy where they grow a large variety of fruits and vegetables along permaculture/organic principles. They are heavily into recyling and Wendy often makes paper from the many egg cartons they bring home from the restaurant they now own in Eumundi. Cuttings from the property of mulberry trees, rosella bushes, lemongrass and other fibre sources are also turned into paper or string for Wendy's artwork.

Involved in the Botanic Book project almost from the beginning, Wendy has assisted Lesa in workshops at the Cooroy Butter Factory and successfully gained funding in 2000 for the Butter Factory to purchase much needed papermaking equipment.

At 22, Sarah K Jones has been running her own freelance graphic design business, Red Neptune, since November 2000 after completing a Certificate in Arts III (Graphic Design). Her work varies from print based media, corporate identity and websites. Her client base also varies, from an artist to a chiropractor, from a catering company to an accounting firm, from a well respected association to an online exercise equipment business. All of which these clients add to the enjoyment and challenges that such a varied client base brings.

Sarah also works as a graphic designer at a small design studio in Newstead, Brisbane where she gains insight into the running of a small business.

Sarah worked closely with Lesa and Gavin in the creation, development and production of the new Red Hot Fibre logo. This Red Hot Fibre website is also one of the many websites that Sarah has designed and developed.

Lisa Crawford undertakes freelance artistic and commercial photography and has worked as a newspaper photographer. Lisa has held one joint photographic exhibition, Spirit, celebrating the achievements of Redcliffe swimmer Rebecca Creedy and Olympians Geoff Huegill and Tarnee White. Spirit featured black and white and color pieces on 35mm and medium format. Most color and black and white works were hand-printed. The exhibition was supported by a Regional Arts Development Fund grant and received press coverage and favorable reviews. It ran during May 2000, in Redcliffe before the Olympic Torch Relay passed through the city. Most work was completed in a one-year period from 1999.

Lisa also has an interest in fine art and has exhibited paintings and sculptures with Redcliffe art group Studio 8. She is inspired by a variety of cultures, social circumstances and emotions. Lisa has travelled broadly throughout the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, some areas of Europe and Japan. Her aim is to continue to travel, documenting life, death and the myriad of emotions they inspire.