Cooee

Cooee is the newly formed collaboration between Gunai multidisciplinary artist Kirli Saunders (OAM) and musician-producer Mark Chester Harding.

Kirli Saunders, a proud Gunai woman and recipient of the Order of Australia Medal for her contributions to the arts, brings a literary sensibility to the project. Her writing, spanning eight books, with works like Kindred (Magabala), Returning, and Eclipse (Allen & Unwin, 2025), explores connections to Country, culture, love, and loss. Chester Harding is a producer and songwriter known for his collaborations with artists such as Jack River, Sons of the East, and Little May. His solo releases have collectively garnered over six million streams. Both Saunders and Chester Harding are also visual artists, designing all accompanying artwork and content for the project themselves — an extension of their shared commitment to storytelling through multiple forms.