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Directors

Georgia Mokak

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Board Member

Ngayu niliwal Georgia Mokak, and I am a proud Djugun woman from Broome, gular Kimberley region. I grew up on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, and am very grateful to be welcomed as a visitor to Wangal and Gadigal Country for the past three years. My community informs everything about my practice in the arts, including my role here at Firstdraft as part of the Board of Directors. Outside of my commitment to Firstdraft, I am the First Nations Engagement Coordinator at the National Association for the Visual Arts, Lead Artist Educator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Creative Producer and First Nations Engagement at Irregular Fit and a freelance writer/editor/producer/curator/consultant.

Past Firstdraft Directors
Geirthana Nandakumaran
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.

Brian Obiri-Asare
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.

Laura Couttie
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.

Holly Farrell
Holly Farrell

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

Dennis Golding
Dennis Golding

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

June Golland
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.

M. Sunflower
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.

Gillian Kayrooz
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.

Heather Tralaggan
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.

Julia Mendel
Julia Mendel

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

PastFirstdraft2020 Co-Director