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Sambavi Seermaran

Board Member

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. She has previously curated two exhibitions, Diaspora, 2018 at Goodspace and Exodus, 2019 at Thirning Villa, and continues to expand her artistic practice. In her work as Project Lead and Solicitor at the National Justice Project and Deadly Connections Community and Justice Services, Sambavi works closely with the Aboriginal community in Redfern and is committed to dismantling systems of oppression within the criminal justice system.

 
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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.

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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.

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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.⁠

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Margaret Hancock
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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.

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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
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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.

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