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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
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
James Little
Deputy Chair
James Little
Deputy Chair

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
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
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
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
Monica Rani Rudhar
Board Member
Monica Rani Rudhar
Board Member

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.

Board Member
Sambavi Seermaran
Board Member
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.

Board Member
PastFirstdraft2020–21 Co-Director