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Directors

M. Sunflower

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Board Member

M. Sunflower is a culturally diverse Australian artist who identifies as living with disabilities. A descendant of the Aboriginal Warmuli people of the Darug Nation, Lebanese post-war migrants, Chinese gold rush miners and UK convicts, M. Sunflower embodies the diverse ancestral legacy of Australia’s painful and complex colonial past. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photomedia) from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, and in 2016 was an inaugural recipient in the Emerge Program, an engagement project between the Art Gallery of NSW and Front Up, a Western Sydney based arts and culture program and hub, founded by Ability Options.

Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses photography, video, multimedia and installation, which she deploys to bring visibility to issues and experiences related to identity, trauma and disability. A strong believer in art as activism, 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. She is a strong advocate for human rights and works actively to create opportunities and support for marginalised peoples of all identities.

 
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
Sambavi Seermaran
2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Deputy Chairperson
Sambavi Seermaran
2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Deputy Chairperson

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.

2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Deputy Chairperson
Zoe Theodore
2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Co-Chairperson, 2022–23 Treasurer
Zoe Theodore
2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Co-Chairperson, 2022–23 Treasurer

Zoe Theodore is a Sydney-based curator, producer and writer, with a particular interest in the relationship between performance, choreography and the gallery.

2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Co-Chairperson, 2022–23 Treasurer
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