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Directors

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.

 
Directors
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
James Little
Deputy Chair
James Little
Deputy Chair

James Little is an artist and arts professional who has exhibited around Australia. He was the co-founder of Nicholas Projects, a curated gallery space in Melbourne.

Deputy 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
Michelle Wang
Secretary
Michelle Wang
Secretary

Michelle Wang is an art consultant, curator and writer who is passionate about ways of making the arts inclusive and accessible, through collaboration, experimentation and uplifting the voices of Australia's diaspora communities.

Secretary
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
Monica Rani Rudhar
Board Member
Monica Rani Rudhar
Board Member

Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist whose work spans video, performance and sculpture and speaks to longing and loss as she navigates the cultural disconnection that stems from the complexities of her multiracial ethnicity.

Board Member
Sambavi Seermaran
Board Member
Sambavi Seermaran
Board Member

Sambavi Seermaran is an Australian Tamil emerging curator, artist and lawyer. She is passionate about amplifying and centring the voices of marginalised and disempowered peoples within Sydney's cultural spaces.

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