Who we are

Tîr Aho Studio works across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand with cultural institutions, governments, artists and the private sector on accessibility, inclusion and equity.

Our studio was founded by Nabil Sabio Azadi and Timothy Liam Brown — an artist–anthropologist and an arts-disability practitioner. We both arrived at accessibility work through our artistic practices and lived experiences of disability. We have co-authored Disability Inclusion Action Plans, advised on making Reconciliation Action Plans accessible, built disability arts infrastructure at state and national levels across Australia, and written image descriptions for major collections. We are both queer and neurodivergent. We work from inside the experience we advise on.

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Nabil Sabio Azadi

Ngāti Irāna o Aotearoa (Persian from Aotearoa) · (he/او/iel)

Nabil Sabio Azadi is an artist and anthropologist. He was Senior Writer for the Uganda Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, awarded the Special Mention for Best National Participation. At the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), he led editorial and accessibility strategy for print and digital publications. He co-authored the Gallery's first Disability Inclusion Action Plan, the Queensland Government's first strategic document that is fully compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2 AA).

He was Editor of the Asia Pacific Art Papers, the Gallery's scholarly research publication on contemporary art across Asia and the Great Ocean. His image descriptions for 'Olafur Eliasson: Presence' were adopted by Studio Olafur Eliasson. He advised the Victoria and Albert Museum on Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander languages. For over a decade, Azadi has also consulted on refugee and asylum seeker legal matters, specialising in Australian humanitarian law and trauma-informed qualitative research.

His two-year ethnographic fieldwork with Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) online communities, undertaken at the University of Queensland under the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, examined Indigenous language (re)vitalisation and digital pedagogy. His artistic and anthropological work is cited in Robert Borofsky's Revitalizing Anthropology (2023), within the field of public anthropology. Before returning to Australia, he worked internationally as a journalist and editor. He works in English, French and Farsi.

Timothy Liam Brown

Settler Australian · (he/him)

Timothy Liam Brown is a performance artist and choreographer from Naarm and Meeanjin/Magandjin. He is Arts Manager at Access Arts, Queensland's peak arts and disability organisation, and a founding member of Arts and Disability Network Australia, Australia's national peak body. He trained at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and the Australian Ballet School, and danced with Queensland Ballet and the Australasian Dance Collective.

He choreographed 'Nocturnal Phantasm' for the Australian Ballet's Bodytorque program and 'Salon', a contemporary cabaret nominated for an Australian Dance Award. He was Artistic Director of Ballet Theatre Queensland for six years. He was awarded a competitive scholarship for AXIS Dance Company's inaugural Choreo-Lab in Oakland, California, choreographing alongside Marc Brew, Artistic Director of Marc Brew Company.

For more than a decade, Brown has been a Teaching Artist at Queensland Ballet's Community Health Institute, facilitating community classes for the company's flagship Dance for Parkinson's and Ballet for Brain Injury programs. Brown holds a Master of Business in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and a Diploma in Dance Movement Therapy from Dance & Arts Therapy New Zealand (DTNZ).

He was Access Consultant for the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), including their 'Out of the Box Festival' 2025, working with programming teams on sensory-friendly and neurodivergent-informed strategies for young audiences. With Associate Professor Bree Hadley at QUT, he co-designed Earn from Your Art, a Creative Australia funded employment initiative providing paid internships and arts sector placements for emerging artists with disability. He is a peer grant and award assessor for Creative Australia.