Hi, my name is Joh Fairley aka Joh Nyx and I am a community development worker and artist from Coburg, Naarm. I have worked in community engaged creative settings since undertaking a social work degree with honours, from RMIT in 2007. I worked at the Asylum Seeker Resource centre as a case worker and arts manager, here I undertook training at Foundation House in trauma and working with Interpreters and translators. I went on to complete a Masters of Community Cultural Development at the VCA and began focusing on working with grief through secular ritual. In 2022 I worked at the Centre for Innovative Justice, as a grief social worker.

My performance art practice includes working in different Melbourne based physical theatre and circus companies and constructing art rituals around grief, loss and loneliness.

Nyx Funerals is a startup business and is infused with my personal values of the power of creativity, ritual and the importance of access to death education and resources to encourage community death literacy and empowerment.

I am on the board for Australian Home Funeral Alliance and a member of the Natural Death Advocacy Network.

Nyx Funerals is named after the primordial Greek goddess of the dark night ‘Nyx’. I took the moniker Joh Nyx in 2011 after my brother died suddenly and I was suffering from anxiety and insomnia, hence spending a lot of my time in the long dark night of grief.

I look forward to working with you and co-creating impactful and meaningful ceremonies for your family and loved ones.