Kudos acknowledges and pays respect to the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. They are the traditional custodians of the land Kudos operates on. We create, design, share, and exchange our work and knowledge on this important meeting place. We pay our respects to elders past and present and extend that respect to any First Nations people who engage with Kudos. This is and always will be Aboriginal land.
'The arts' is a somewhat mysterious and undefined sector that many art school graduates want to get a foot in the door of. From digital archivists to curators to gallerists, the arts contains many jobs you might have never even heard of. Hear from 4 established arts professionals about where they started, what their day-to-day looks like, differences between institutions and much more!
Olivia Fuller has more than 15 years of experience working in the commercial art sector. After managing commercial art galleries in Sydney and Melbourne, she joined Australia’s largest auction house, Leonard Joel, in 2014 as Fine Art Specialist, and moved into the position of Head of Art in 2019. She is currently the Gallery Director at STATION across two locations in Sydney and Melbourne.
Billy Bain is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist of Darug descent, the traditional Aboriginal people of Greater Western Sydney. Bain is currently based in Darlinghurst holding a Creative Live/Work Tenancy with the City of Sydney. He is a casual lecturer at UNSW Art & Design where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours first class) in 2019. In 2022 he had his first solo exhibition with a public gallery, “Being Manly” at Manly Art Gallery and Museum. In 2023 Bain is a finalist in both the Wynne and Sulman Prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and won FBI’s Artist Of The Year at their SMAC Awards.
David Suyasa is a photographer, arts-worker and lazy artist. They are currently the Head of Digital at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery with experience in artwork and exhibition documentation, communications, graphic design and website management. They previously directed ‘Layton Street’, a DIY photography pop-up space in Camperdown from 2020-2021. David loves ‘images’, cotton bed sheets and all of their friends.
Evgenia [Jenny] Anagnostopoulou is a curator and producer from Athens, Greece, working on unceded Gadigal land. She is an assistant programs producer at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) and a Masters of Fine Art (Curating) candidate at the University of NSW. Her interests lie in artistic and institutional forms of resistance and alternative methods of knowledge production.
This track is an audio recording of a panel hosted by Kudos supported by Arc Creative on unceded Gadigal Land.