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Directors

Yuki Kawakami

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Board Member

Yuki Kawakami is a creative producer who is interested in socially inclusive community-led projects and supporting career-pathway opportunities for young people in the arts. She is currently working as the Tertiary and Young Adults Programs Producer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2019, she was assistant curator of the Gallery's major exhibition Japan supernatural and was also the creative producer of its Sydney Festival program, Night parade of one hundred goblins. In 2017, she was awarded the Edmund Capon Fellowship to research youth engagement programs in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She is passionate about ethical leadership practices in mentorship and working with artists and performers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

 
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, 2020–2021 Chairperson