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Announcing the 2023–24 Firstdraft Board of Directors

We are delighted to announce the 2023–24 Firstdraft Board of Directors: Kym Elphinstone, James Little, Geirthana Nandakumaran, Monica Rani Rudhar, Michelle Wang, and Olivia Welch.

Kym Elphinstone, James Little, Geirthana Nandakumaran, Monica Rani Rudhar, Michelle Wang, and Olivia Welch.

We are delighted to announce the 2023–24 Firstdraft Board of Directors: Kym Elphinstone, James Little, Geirthana Nandakumaran, Monica Rani Rudhar, Michelle Wang, and Olivia Welch.

They join 2022–23 directors Elyse Goldfinch, Sambavi Seermaran, and Zoe Theodore, as well as M.Sunflower, who will continue her tenure through 2023, as Firstdraft reopens with a renewed commitment to our community and sector. Their knowledge and experience – across arts advocacy, law, and accessibility, strategic communications, critical writing and curatorial practice, and exhibition making – will galvanise Firstdraft’s mission to provide opportunities for artists, curators and writers to develop new and experimental approaches to contemporary arts practice.

Read more about our new Co-Directors below and please join us in welcoming them to the team!

 

2023–24 Co-Directors

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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.

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