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Directors

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.

 
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
PastFirstdraft2020–21 Co-Director