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Firstdraft Board

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
Amanda Dobbie
Board Member
Amanda Dobbie
Board Member

Amanda is a seasoned corporate executive with experience spanning the finance, technology, legal and not for profit sectors. She is passionate about assisting underrepresented groups to establish their careers.

Board Member
Bill Dunbar
Board Member
Bill Dunbar
Board Member

Bill Dunbar is an infrastructure and property professional, creative writer and cultural advisor with 25-years’ experience in the public and private sectors across Australia and globally.

Board Member
James Little
Deputy Chair, Board Member
James Little
Deputy Chair, Board Member

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, Board Member
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
Katie Belgiorno-Nettis
Board Member
Katie Belgiorno-Nettis
Board Member

Katie Belgiorno-Nettis combines experience in corporate IP law with a background in art history and media communications. She is passionate about supporting the arts alongside her own creative pursuits in oil painting.⁠

Board Member
Margaret Hancock
Board Member
Margaret Hancock
Board Member

Margaret Hancock is Senior Curator, Western Sydney Creative at Western Sydney University. She has over 20 years of visual arts, crafts and design writing, curatorial and cultural project management experience.

Board Member
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
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
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
Geirthana Nandakumaran
2023–24 Co-Director, 2023 Treasurer
Geirthana Nandakumaran
2023–24 Co-Director, 2023 Treasurer

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, 2023 Treasurer
PastFirstdraft2019 Co-Director