Geirthana Nandakumaran

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.

PastFirstdraft31 January 20232023–24 Co-Director, 2023 Treasurer

Brian Obiri-Asare

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.

PastFirstdraft15 October 20222022 Co-Director

Elyse Goldfinch

Elyse Goldfinch is an arts curator and writer with a career focus on advocacy, collaboration, exchange and support for artists across generations.

PastFirstdraft2 February 20222022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Co-Chairperson

Laura Couttie

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.

PastFirstdraft13 April 20212021–22 Co-Director, 2021–22 Chairperson

Holly Farrell

Holly Farrell is a Newcastle-based creative producer, with extensive experience coordinating multidisciplinary arts festivals and community led projects.

PastFirstdraft13 April 20212021–22 Co-Director

Dennis Golding

Dennis Golding is a Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist from the north west of NSW, born and raised in Sydney.

PastFirstdraft13 April 20212021 Co-Director

June Golland

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.

PastFirstdraft13 April 20212021–22 Co-Director

M. Sunflower

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.

PastFirstdraft13 April 20212021–22 Co-Director

Gillian Kayrooz

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.

PastFirstdraft13 April 20212021–22 Co-Director, 2021–22 Deputy Chairperson

Heather Tralaggan

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.

PastFirstdraft13 April 20212021–22 Co-Director, 2021–22 Treasurer

Julia Mendel

Julia Mendel is a creative producer whose work is focused on socially engaged practices and community led projects.

PastFirstdraft9 April 20212019–20 Co-Director, 2019–20 Chairperson

Athena Thebus

Athena Thebus is an artist who works with Desire.

PastFirstdraft9 April 20212019–20 Co-Director, 2019–20 Deputy Chairperson

Jamey Nguyen

Jamey Nguyen is a Sydney-based marketing professional who works closely with local commercial and contemporary artists.

PastFirstdraft9 April 20212019–20 Co-Director, 2019–20 Treasurer

Georgia Mokak

Ngayu niliwal Georgia Mokak, and I am a proud Djugun woman from Broome, gular Kimberley region.

PastFirstdraft9 April 20212020 Co-Director

Michael Sun

Michael Sun is a writer and designer whose work focuses on the intersections between queerness, memory, and technology.

PastFirstdraft9 April 20212020 Co-Director

Claudia Roosen

Claudia Roosen is an arts worker with a background in advocacy and engagement and a passion for creating holistically inclusive spaces.

PastFirstdraft9 April 20212019 Co-Director, 2018–19 Chairperson

Ohni Blu

Ohni Blu is an emerging artist, curator and events producer currently based in Sydney, Australia.

PastFirstdraft9 April 20212019 Co-Director

Yuki Kawakami

Yuki Kawakami is a creative producer who is interested in socially inclusive community-led projects and supporting career-pathway opportunities for young people in the arts.

PastFirstdraft10 April 20202020–21 Co-Director, 2020–2021 Chairperson