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Firstdraft Board

Thea Perkins

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Board Member

Thea Anamara Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman with an emerging painting and installation practice. She has a strong interest and has worked in a broad range of community projects and is an active member of SEED. Raised and based in Sydney, she has family ties to the Redfern community.

She had her first solo show History House at Firstdraft in 2018. In the same year she was a lead artist participating in the restoration of the iconic 40,000 Years mural in Redfern. In 2019 she had her second solo Anamara at Our Neon Foe; she was also a finalist in the Archibald Prize and the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship. Since 2018 she has been working with Tangentyere artists, and exhibited in the 2019 TARNANTHI at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She is a finalist in the 2020 Alice Prize and is a Carriageworks Clothing Store Artist.

 
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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
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
PastFirstdraft2020–21 Co-Director