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Directors

Gillian Kayrooz

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Board Member

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. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. In 2018 she was awarded the Create NSW Young Creative Leaders Fellowship which led her to exhibit internationally in the Asia-Pacific region. She most recently completed residencies at the Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts and the Sapporo Tenjinyama Artist Studio, ARTnSHELTER, Tokyo. In 2020 she presented her solo exhibition Argileh at Wedding Cake Rock at Firstdraft, and is a 2021 Studio Artist at Parramatta Artists’ Studios.

 
Directors
Kym Elphinstone
2023–24 Co-Director
Kym Elphinstone
2023–24 Co-Director

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.

2023–24 Co-Director
James Little
2023–24 Co-Director
James Little
2023–24 Co-Director

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.

2023–24 Co-Director
Monica Rani Rudhar
2023–24 Co-Director
Monica Rani Rudhar
2023–24 Co-Director

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.

2023–24 Co-Director
Michelle Wang
2023–24 Co-Director
Michelle Wang
2023–24 Co-Director

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.

2023–24 Co-Director
Olivia Welch
2023–24 Co-Director
Olivia Welch
2023–24 Co-Director

Olivia Welch is Exhibitions Manager at Museums & Galleries of NSW, developing touring exhibitions and associated sector development.

2023–24 Co-Director
PastFirstdraft2021–22 Co-Director, 2021–22 Deputy Chairperson