Art Gallery of NSW Board of Trustees
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President
Mr Steven M Lowy AM
B Comm (Hons)
Steven Lowy was appointed managing director of Westfield Holdings in 1997 and currently serves as co-chief executive officer. Prior to joining Westfield in 1987, he worked in investment banking in the USA. Mr Lowy is chairman of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute; a director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy; a member of the Prime Minister’s Business–Government Advisory Group on National Security; and chairman of the Board of Management for the Associate Degree of Policing Practice in New South Wales.
Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2006; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2011.
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Vice-President
Ms Sandra McPhee
Dip Ed, FAICD
Sandra McPhee has extensive experience as a non-executive director and senior executive in a range of consumer-oriented industries, including utilities, retail, tourism and aviation, most recently with Qantas Airways Limited. Ms McPhee is a director of AGL Energy Limited, Fairfax Media Limited, Westfield Retail Trust and Tourism Australia; a member of the Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan, Mercer, Marsh McLennan Companies and St Vincents and Mater Health; a former deputy chairman of South Australian Water; and a former director of Coles Group Limited, Australia Post, Perpetual Limited, Primelife Corporation and CARE Australia.
Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2004; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2013.
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Member
Mr Geoff Ainsworth AM
BA (Hons), MA (Counselling), Dip Fin Mgt, FAICD
Geoffrey Ainsworth is a director of the Bundanon Trust, a trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW Foundation, a director of Benthic Geotech Pty Ltd and a former director of Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. He is a member of the Council of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a former member of the Venice Biennale Commissioner’s Council and a patron of a number of cultural and charitable initiatives, including the Asia-Australia Arts Centre. Mr Ainsworth is also an internationally known art collector.
Initial date of appointment 10 Feb 2010; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2012.
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Member
Mr David Baffsky AO
David Baffsky is honorary chairman of Accor Asia Pacific, which is the largest hotel management company in the Asia Pacific; chairman and a director of Ariadne Australia Ltd; a director and life member of the Tourism Task Force; a director of the Indigenous Land Corporation, Singapore Airport Terminal Services Pty Ltd and Sydney Olympic Park Authority; and chairman of Investa Property Group. In 2004, Mr Baffsky was appointed to the federal government’s National Tourism Infrastructure Investment Consultative Group and the Business Government Advisory Group on National Security. In 2007, he was appointed to the federal government’s Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce and the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership. In June 2001, he was made an officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. Mr Baffsky was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 and was the 2004 Asia Pacific Hotelier of the Year.
Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2006; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2011.
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Member
Mr John Beard
ADAE, MA RCA
John Beard is a renowned Australian artist whose work has been collected by public museums around the world. In 1967, he co-produced and appeared in a series of art programs for BBC Television. He has taught extensively throughout England and lectured internationally. From 1972 to 1978, he sat on the board of studies for art education at Oxford University. He was head of art at Curtin University in Perth from 1983 to 1989 and was awarded an Australia Council fellowship in 1989. Solo exhibitions between 1998 and 2005 include shows at the Art Gallery of NSW, the Tate St Ives in the UK, and the Gulbenkian Centro de Arte Moderna in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2006, Mr Beard was awarded a grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation in New York City, won the Wynne Prize and the Kedumba Contemporary Drawing Award, and was made a visiting Professorial Fellow of Fine Arts at the University of NSW. In 2007, he won the Archibald Prize.
Initial date of appointment 10 Feb 2010; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2012.
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Member
Mr Guido Belgiorno-Nettis AM
B Eng (Civil), MBA
Guido Belgiorno-Nettis is the joint managing director of Transfield Holdings Pty Ltd; a non-executive director of Transfield Services Limited; chairman of Novatec Solar GmbH Shareholder Committee and the Australian Chamber Orchestra; a member of the University of NSW Faculty of Business; and an interstate member of the Brisbane Club. In 2005, he was awarded the Australian Graduate School of Management’s Distinguished Alumni Award for leadership and innovation in business services. Mr Belgiorno-Nettis was made a member of the Order of Australia in the General Division on Australia Day, 2007 for service both to the construction industry, particularly through the management of large infrastructure projects, and to the arts in executive and philanthropic roles. In 2008 he was the recipient of the University of NSW Alumni Association Award.
Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2007; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2012.
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Member
Dr Lindy Lee
Dip Ed (Art, Secondary School), BA (Visual Arts), Post Grad Dip (Painting), PhD (Art Theory)
Lindy Lee is a senior lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. She is also an artist whose works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and the state galleries of New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia, as well as major corporate collections. Dr Lee has featured in many solo exhibitions since 1985, including in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. Since 1992 she has participated in group exhibitions in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia and Australia. She is a former board member of Artspace and the Australian Centre of Photography; former president of the Asian Australian Artists Association; and former deputy chair of the Visual Arts and Craft Fund, Australia Council.
Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2006; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2011.
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Member
Ms Samantha Meers
BA, LLB, MLitt, FAICD
Samantha Meers is a director of the Meers family group of companies, and is also executive director and a trustee of the Nelson Meers Foundation. She is currently deputy president of Philanthropy Australia, a director of the State Library of NSW Foundation and The Climate Institute and a member of the Advisory Council of the Centre for Social Impact at the University of New South Wales. Previously Ms Meers practised as a commercial lawyer, subsequently holding senior management positions within the media sector.
Ms Meers is a former board member of the Belvoir St Theatre, the Power Institute for Art & Visual Culture (Sydney University), the Documentary Australia Foundation and former deputy chair of the Australian Subscription Television & Radio Association (ASTRA) and the Women Donors’ Network.
Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2011; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2013.
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Member
Mr Mark Nelson
B Sc (Hons), MPhil, PhD
Mark Nelson is a founder and chief investment officer of the Caledonia Investment Group and a director of the Caledonia Foundation. He is a director of Art Exhibitions Australia and Kaldor Public Art Projects; a trustee of the Sydney Australian Football Association; and governor of the Florey Neuroscience Institutes.
Initial date of appointment 10 Feb 2010; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2012.
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Member
Prof Janice Reid AM
FASSA, B Sc, MA, MA, PhD
Janice Reid is vice-chancellor of the University of Western Sydney. She is a member of the board of UniSuper Ltd, the NSW Health Clinical Excellence Commission and the Agency for Clinical Innovation; a member of the National Cultural Heritage Committee; and vice-chair of the Steering Committee of The Talloires Network of international universities. She is a former member of the board of Integral Energy, the Salvation Army Greater Western Sydney Advisory Board, the Kedumba Drawing Award Trust and the Federal Council on Australia–Latin American Relations; a former vice-chair of the governing board of the OECD program on institutional management in higher education; a former deputy chair of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research; and a former chair of the National Review of Nursing Education. Professor Reid is a recipient of the Wellcome Medal and Centenary Medal and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2004; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2012.
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Member
Ms Eleonora Triguboff
BA (Art History), AAS
Eleonora Triguboff established a career as a sculptor in the 1980s, exhibiting in New York, Europe and Japan. In 2003 she became publisher and editor-in-chief of the quarterly publication Art & Australia. In this role, she developed initiatives such as the Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award, the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program, an annual 25/25 magazine with Noise, and the New Word Order writing competition for secondary school students with the Art Gallery of NSW. Ms Triguboff set up the Dot Publishing imprint to produce art and design titles, the first of which – Current: contemporary art from Australia and New Zealand – was launched in November 2008. She is a council member of the Animal Protection Institute.
Initial date of appointment 16 Jul 2008; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2013.