Varuna Naicker is a Fijian-Indian writer from Penrith, immigrating to Australia when her parents moved from Fiji in 1999. Varuna has deep interest in how social institutions form people's perception of themselves and the perception of the world around them reflected in her works in theater and creative writing. Varuna has written for SBS Voices, Storycasters and most recently completed a Artslab residency with Shopfront Arts.
On her relationship to the Arts and Cultural Exchange building and to Parramatta: Parramatta is a place where people like me aren’t the minority. Seeing so many different kinds of people, being able to explore my creative feelings in a safe space such as ACE makes Parramatta the place where I feel most at ease and comfortable with myself, even though I don’t live there.