Amrit joined 4A as Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer in February 2021. She is an arts and cultural worker with experience in producing, programming, strategy, international relations, community development and social enterprise. From 2013 to early 2021, Amrit worked at the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory agency. As the Council’s Director of International Development, she led on international strategic investment across artforms, overseeing the Venice Biennale project and implementation of the agency’s first international arts strategy, expanding engagement and investment in Asia and global First Nations exchange. Earlier in her career, Amrit held roles at Milk Crate Theatre, the British Council Australia, and Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE). She holds a Bachelor of Art Theory and a Bachelor of Arts (History) from the University of New South Wales.

amrit.gill[@]4a.com.au

Nuala Furtado is a producer/ programmer with over 10 years of experience working across contemporary practice and experimental forms from inside Australian festivals and small-medium arts organisations. As Executive Producer/ CEO at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists (2018-2021), Nuala was instrumental in the organisational shift to a collaborative cultural leadership model, implementing an Artistic Directorate of 5 practicing mid-career Artists. In this role she developed and produced focused creative and professional development opportunities for the next generation of Australian creative innovators. Nuala holds a Bachelor of Music Studies from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. As a participant in the Future Leaders program at the Australia Council for the Arts (2019), Nuala is currently investigating her own diverse cultural heritage as a first generation Australian with a Goan-Indian father and a Northern-Irish Catholic mother. Nuala brings her understanding of difference to all aspects of her work and is deeply invested in programming and presenting marginalised voices and new narratives.

nuala.furtado[@]4a.com.au

Mariam Arcilla is a Filipina-Singaporean artsworker who works across writing, producing, arts communications, gallery managing, and editing. Joining 4A in 2020, Mariam currently works on  digital strategies, marketing content, publications, programming, and engagement avenues that amplify Asian practices. Mariam is the Deputy Chair and a Digital Producer at Runway Journal and a Future Leaders participant at the Australia Council for the Arts. Prior to this, she held senior roles at museums, commercial galleries, tech companies, cultural policy boards, and public sector departments in Queensland and New South Wales. Mariam's childhood was zigzagged between the Philippines, Singapore and Hong Kong—where she was raised by a family of artists, creative cooks, and writers. Rooted in Australia's arts sector since 2006, Mariam is a former artist-run initiatives and gallery co-director, and has dreamed up programs with leading bodies, including Arts Queensland, City of Gold Coast, Museum of Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art, Powerhouse Museum, THE WALLS, State Library of Queensland, and HOTA. As a writer, Mariam's text is published in VAULT, Running Dog, Art Collector, ACCLAIM, and Art Guide. Immigrating to Australia in 1996, she graduated from a BA Hons (First Class) and BCA in Contemporary Art & Writing from Griffith University, Gold Coast. She lives on Gadigal land and continues to collaborate with people and organisations to turn radiant ideas into exhibitions, publications, dialogues, and resources.

mariam.arcilla[@]4a.com.au

Con is a curator, arts administrator and writer. His areas of interest frequently revolve around social phenomena, subcultures, contemporary urban experiences and our relationship to the built environment. Con has curated NO FALSE IDOLS (2022); New Energy (2022); Acute Actions: Responses to I Am Not A Virus (2021); James Jirat Patradoon: ULTRA (2021); Holding Patterns (2020); DARK FANTASY (2019) and Chris Yee: HI MEDUSA! (2019) for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Independently, he curated the exhibitions D A R K S E A – Lynn Nguyen and J.S.D. Andrews (2019), goodspace, Chippendale; CITIZENS OF NO PLACE (2018), Down/Under Space, Chippendale; and IT’S PRONOUNCED “GIF” NOT “GIF” (2017), goodspace, Chippendale. Con programmed the inaugural Club 4A for Sydney’s Chinese New Year Festival 2018 and instigated, curated and produced for 4A Digital since 2020. He has published articles for 4A Papers, un. extended, Runway Conversations and Art Collector. Con completed a Bachelor of Arts (HONS) in 2013 and a Master of Art Curating in 2016 at the University of Sydney.

con.gerakaris[@]4a.com.au

Zev Tropp is a contemporary artist and arts worker who has worked across small-to-medium arts organisations and galleries. Most recently, he co-directed the ARI 'Small Time Studio' in Mullumbimby and worked for 'Studio Of The Sun' as an administrator. In 2019, he exhibited the solo show New Colour Futurism at Green Monday Studio and curated the Bushfire fundraiser Art From The Heart at Block Projects in 2020. He was a recent finalist in the Hazelhurst Works On Paper prize in 2022. Zev previously produced and ran inclusive Hip Hop nights in Melbourne and has been teaching Yoga/Meditation. Zev is of Jewish-Indian heritage, and studied at RMIT and Victorian College of the Arts, completing his honours in Fine Art in 2019. Zev’s art practice and interests are centred around an engagement with marginalised voices, identities and politics. This interest finds its inspiration in the stories and experiences of diasporic people and de-colonial art practices. Zev joined 4A in March 2022 as the Gallery Operations Coordinator.

Reina Takeuchi is an Australian-Japanese artist-researcher, curator and dance maker interested in interdisciplinary collaboration. Influenced by her experiences living peripatetically across East and Southeast Asia during her youth, Takeuchi uses an auto-ethnographic approach to her art/performance processes. Her practice spans across visual arts, choreography, curatorial projects, written publications and creative facilitation. She has contributed to publications including Ausdance Qld, Delving into Dance, Eyeline Contemporary Visual Art magazine, 4A Papers and Runway Journal. Her curatorial projects have included installations at Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, and Holding Patterns, Truc Truong: hai con lân việt kiều, and Acute Actions: Responses to I Am Not A Virus with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Takeuchi holds a Master of Philosophy in Creative Practice from QUT, Advanced Diploma in Dance Performance from the Sydney Dance Company Pre-Professional Year and is currently a PhD candidate at QUT, focussing on Asia-Pacific performance and curatorial projects.

reina.takeuchi[@]4a.com.au 

With lived and professional experience in both Australia and Asia, Faye takes influence by both cultures emerging and traditional. In all forms of her explorations in art, work and personality, passion and vigour is matched by an implicit and subtle methodology. Previously Faye worked in marketing for City Magazine (號外) in Hong Kong, participating on projects including The Hong Kong Art Fair and The Retrospective of Outstanding Hong Kong Artists. Faye initially graduated from the University of New South Wales with a B.A. in Media, Culture and Technology and sought to broaden her horizons of research in theory and practice by completing a Master degree in Art Curating at the University of Sydney. Faye completed curatorial internships during her degree at the Penrith Regional Gallery and post-graduation with the National Gallery of Singapore where she assisted to develop the concept of Tropical Modernism.