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Firstdraft Board

Elyse Goldfinch

Board Member

Elyse Goldfinch is an arts curator and writer with a career focus on advocacy, collaboration, exchange and support for artists across generations. Over the past ten years Elyse has worked across a variety of non-profit and independent arts organisations. She is Associate Curator and Executive Assistant at Artspace, Sydney, Assistant Curator of the 2022 Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and Coordinator for the Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia network. Recently, she co-curated Artspace’s 52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS exhibition and the 2019–2022 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship exhibitions. Elyse has published widely on contemporary art for Art & Australia, Ocula, un Magazine and Art Collector, as well as for institutions including Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia.

 
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Amanda Dobbie
Board Member
Amanda Dobbie
Board Member

Amanda is a seasoned corporate executive with experience spanning the finance, technology, legal and not for profit sectors. She is passionate about assisting underrepresented groups to establish their careers.

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Bill Dunbar
Board Member
Bill Dunbar
Board Member

Bill Dunbar is an infrastructure and property professional, creative writer and cultural advisor with 25-years’ experience in the public and private sectors across Australia and globally.

Board Member
Katie Belgiorno-Nettis
Board Member
Katie Belgiorno-Nettis
Board Member

Katie Belgiorno-Nettis combines experience in corporate IP law with a background in art history and media communications. She is passionate about supporting the arts alongside her own creative pursuits in oil painting.⁠

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Margaret Hancock
Board Member
Margaret Hancock
Board Member

Margaret Hancock is Senior Curator, Western Sydney Creative at Western Sydney University. She has over 20 years of visual arts, crafts and design writing, curatorial and cultural project management experience.

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Augusta Supple
Chair
Augusta Supple
Chair

Augusta Supple is an award-winning writer, creative producer, and arts and cultural strategist living and working in Western Sydney.

Chair
Dominic Kavanagh
Treasurer
Dominic Kavanagh
Treasurer

Dominic Kavanagh is Associate Director at Martin Browne Contemporary in Paddington and an advisor across public, private and corporate collections.

Treasurer
Kym Elphinstone
Board Member
Kym Elphinstone
Board Member

Kym Elphinstone is an arts advisor, advocate and the founder of Articulate, Australia's leading cultural agency, and its sister content agency, The Golden Mean.

Board Member
PastFirstdraft2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Co-Chairperson