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Directors

Ohni Blu

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Board Member

Ohni Blu is an emerging artist, curator and events producer currently based in Sydney, Australia. They are passionately committed to collaboration and community focused events and outcomes. They have just finished a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts and plan to continue their studies. Their work and projects explore themes of gender & identity, radical healing, disability, rituals of care, community relationships and the power of vulnerability.

Past Firstdraft 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
Geirthana Nandakumaran
2023–24 Co-Director
Geirthana Nandakumaran
2023–24 Co-Director

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.

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
Brian Obiri-Asare
2022 Co-Director
Brian Obiri-Asare
2022 Co-Director

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.

2022 Co-Director
Elyse Goldfinch
2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Co-Chairperson
Elyse Goldfinch
2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Co-Chairperson

Elyse Goldfinch is an arts curator and writer with a career focus on advocacy, collaboration, exchange and support for artists across generations.

2022–23 Co-Director, 2022–23 Co-Chairperson
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
PastFirstdraft2019 Co-Director