Deputy Chairperson
Athena Thebus is an artist who works with Desire. She has presented solo and collaborative work at Next Wave Festival, Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival, Sugar Mountain Festival, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Adelaide Contemporary Exhibitions, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and Verge Gallery, among others.
Geirthana Nandakumaran is an artist and arts worker, whose practice investigates liminal identity, relating her environments through spatial and cultural investigations of selfhood, and Sri Lankan Tamil-Australian cultures.
Brian Obiri-Asare is a creative writer of Ghanaian descent, with a particular focus on engaging with the complexities and contradictions of a multiracial society.
Laura Couttie is an arts manager, writer and curator. Over the past ten years Laura has worked in creative, administrative and management roles in a variety of galleries and arts organisations.
Holly Farrell is a Newcastle-based creative producer, with extensive experience coordinating multidisciplinary arts festivals and community led projects.
Dennis Golding is a Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist from the north west of NSW, born and raised in Sydney.
June Golland is a Central West NSW-based artist working across sculpture, installation and textiles. She is a founding member of WAYOUT artist collective, developing and delivering professional opportunities for regional artists.
M. Sunflower is a culturally diverse Australian artist who identifies as living with disabilities. She is founder and curating contributor of Off The Wall Gallery, Sydney, an outdoor and online exhibiting initiative centred on creating opportunities for marginalised artists, including those living with physical and mental disability.
Gillian Kayrooz is an artist whose practice reflects both her personal experience of and ongoing engagement with the local personas, neighbourhoods, cultural motifs and movements of Western Sydney.
Heather Tralaggan is a curator and arts professional living and working on Gadigal land. In 2017 she co-founded Collab Gallery at Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, a curatorially-supported exhibition space for emerging artists.
Julia Mendel is a creative producer whose work is focused on socially engaged practices and community led projects.
