Core Team

Introducing the talented people we call the illuminarty – a core team of animators, artists, programmers, composers, technologists, writers and our collaborators. Collectively we are storytellers and inventors who have been brought together by illuminart founder and Artistic Director Cindi Drennan.

Cindi Drennan

Position: Company Founder / Projection Artist / Creative Director

Cindi Drennan is an Australian multimedia artist and artistic director, specialising in projection art, with a passion for community art at the heart of her practice.

Craig Laurendet

Position: Projection Specialist / Sculptor

Craig Laurendet is illuminart’s projection mapping guru, official photographer, installation architect and sculptor. C...

Vent Thomas

Position: Business Development Manager

Vent has a passion for the creative arts. He spent the first 15 years of his working life in Theatre & Entertainment...

Verity Brookes

Position: Creative Producer

Verity Brookes is a creative producer who works with artists and communities to create quality artistic outcomes that ac...

David Ryan

Position: Creative Producer

I develop new projects in western Sydney and regional NSW by drawing on my background in cultural development, theatre ...

Andy McIntyre

Position: Technical Production Manager

Andy has over 30 years’ experience in the Corporate AV, art and entertainment industry. He was the projector special...

Andy Petrusevics

Position: Animator / Storyteller

Andy Petrusevics is a contemporary visual artist who works across all media forms, most recently producing film work. An...

Zero

Position: Animator / Videographer

Zero (Luke Shaw) works with the team across the areas of animation/moving image production, live video performance/proje...