This page introduces the President, Trustees, Director, Deputy and Assistant Directors, Senior Curators and Heads of Departments of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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TRUSTEES

As at August 2008

Mr Steven Lowy
President
Steven Lowy was appointed managing director of Westfield Holdings in 1997 and currently serves as group managing director of the Westfield Group. Mr Lowy holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of NSW. Prior to joining Westfield in 1987, he worked in investment banking in the US. 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 NSW (ADPP).
Initial appointment: 1 January 2006
Current term expires: 31 December 2011

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Ms Sandra McPhee
Vice President
Sandra McPhee has extensive experience as a non-executive director and senior executive in a range of consumer-oriented industries including retail, tourism and aviation, most recently with Qantas Airways Limited. Ms McPhee is a director of AGL Energy Limited, Australia Post and St Vincents and Mater Health; former deputy chairman of South Australian Water; and a former director of Coles Group Limited, Perpetual Limited, Primelife Corporation, Tourism Council Australia and CARE Australia.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2004
Current term expires: 31 December 2010

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Mr David Baffsky AO
David Baffsky is honorary chairman of Accor Asia Pacific, which is the largest hotel management company in the Asia Pacific; a director and life member of the Tourism Task Force; and a director of the Tourism Asset Holdings, Indigenous Land Corporation, Ariadne Australia Ltd and Singapore Airport Terminal Services Pty Ltd. 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 2004 and the Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce and the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership in 2007. He was awarded Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in June 2001 and the Centenary Medal in 2003, and was the 2004 Asia Pacific Hotelier of the Year.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2006
Current term expires: 31 December 2011

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Mr Guido Belgiorno-Nettis
Guido Belgiorno-Nettis is the joint managing director of Transfield Holdings Pty Ltd and Associated Companies; a director of Transfield Services Limited and Middle Harbour Yacht Club; and chairman of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. 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 to the construction industry, particularly through the management of large infrastructure projects and to the arts in executive and philanthropic roles.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2007
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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Ms Anne Fulwood
Anne Fulwood established her career in television journalism before moving into corporate and media consultancy. She has previously served on the Council for Australian Honours, the Film and Literature Board of Review, the National Film and Sound Archive (ScreenSound Australia) and the Luna Park Reserve Trust. She is a current board member of The Eye Foundation, a research funding initiative within the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Her most recent appointment was by the prime minister to the role of Commonwealth spokesperson for the APEC 2007 Taskforce.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2002
Current term expires: 31 December 2010

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Dr Lindy Lee
Lindy Lee is a senior lecturer, 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. She has had many solo exhibitions since 1985, in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore, and numerous group exhibitions since 1992 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 appointment: 1 January 2006
Current term expires: 31 December 2011

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Prof. Janice Reid AM
Janice Reid is vice-chancellor, University of Western Sydney; a member of the UniSuper Ltd board, Salvation Army Greater Western Sydney Advisory Board, Non Clinical Excellence Commission, and governing board of the OECD program on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE); a member of the Kedumba Drawing Award Trust; a former member of the Integral Energy Board and Federal Council on Australia-Latin American Relations; former chair of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; a former trustee of the Queensland Museum; former deputy chair of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research; chair 1994–95 of the National Review of Nursing Education; recipient of the Wellcome Medal and Centenary Medal; and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2004
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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Mr John Schaeffer AO
John Schaeffer is a member of the National Gallery of Australia and Foundation Board; a life governor of the Art Gallery of NSW; a former board member of the National Portrait Gallery; and former president of the Australian Building Services Association and the World Federation of Building Service Contractors. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2003.
Initial appointment: 13 August 2001
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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Mr Imants Tillers
Imants Tillers is a visual artist, writer and curator. Since 1973 he has had solo exhibitions in Australia, Germany, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and USA, and in 2006 a major survey of his work, Imants Tillers: one world many visions, was held at the National Gallery of Australia. His public commissions include the dome of the Federation Pavilion in Centennial Park, Sydney, the Founding Donors commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and The attractor and Eight women sculptures at Overflow Park, Sydney Olympic Park. Awards and international prizes include the Gold Prize at the Osaka Painting Triennale in 1993 and a Doctor of Letters honoris causa by the University of NSW in 2005 for ‘his long and distinguished contribution to the field of arts’.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2001
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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Ms 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 has developed initiatives such as the Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award, the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program, 25/25 magazine with Noise, and the New Word Order writing competition for secondary school students with the Art Gallery of NSW. Recently she set up the Dott 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.
Initial appointment: 16 July 2008
Current term expires: 31 December 2010

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Mr Peter Young
Peter Young is senior adviser, ABN AMRO Group (Australia and New Zealand); chairman of Delta Electricity, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund, and AIDA Fund Ltd (London); and a director of Fairfax Media, the Australian Business Arts Foundation, Sydney Theatre Company, and the Great Barrier Reef Research Foundation. He is a former chairman of the National Rail Corporation; a former director of the NSW State Transit Authority and NSW Maritime Services Board; and a former member of the Takeovers Panel.
Initial appointment: 13 August 2001
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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SENIOR STAFF

Edmund Capon AM, OBE
Director and Chief Curator

Edmund Capon has been director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales since 1978. For five years before leaving London he held the position of assistant keeper, Far Eastern Section at the Victoria & Albert Museum, having started there in 1966 in the Textile Department (specialising in Chinese textiles and costume, and European tapestries). He has also managed a commercial gallery in London primarily concerned with modern British paintings and sculpture. He obtained his Master of Philosophy degree in Chinese art and archaeology (including language) from the London University School of Oriental and African Studies, and also studied 20th-century painting at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University.

Mr Capon is recognised as a world expert in his particular field and has published several books and catalogues including Princes of jade (1974); Art and archaeology in China (1977); Qin Shihuang: terracotta warriors and horses (1982); and Tang China: vision and splendour of a golden age (1989), as well as many articles for Australian and international newspapers and professional art journals. In 1994 Mr Capon was made a member of the Order of Australia and in 2000 was awarded a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of New South Wales and a Chevalier of Arts and Letters from the French government. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre and a member of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors (CAAMD).

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Anne Flanagan
Deputy Director

Anne Flanagan joined the Gallery in March 1992. Her academic background includes visual arts, interior design and education. For the last 20 years she has worked within arts organisations initially at the Crafts Council of NSW, Powerhouse Museum, Biennale of Sydney, Australian Bicentennial Authority and then at the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Ms Flanagan is responsible for the exhibition program including design, development and financial management, building services including capital and maintenance programs, publications and all security services within the Gallery.

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Anthony Bond
Assistant Director, Curatorial Services
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Anthony Bond joined the Gallery in 1984 as curator of contemporary art. In January 1995 he was appointed to the position of general manager, curatorial services to oversee the Gallery's curatorial staff and overall management of the curatorial services departments: Conservation, Registration, Public Programmes, Library and the Photography Studio. This is coupled with his role as head curator, western art with special responsibility for 20th-century and contemporary international collections. He was formerly director of Wollongong City Gallery and assistant director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Mr Bond's curatorial specialisation is in 20th-century and contemporary international art. His recent major projects include curating TRACE, the inaugural Liverpool Biennial in England (1999) and BODY, an exhibition tracing aspects of realism in art from the mid 19th century

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John Wicks
Assistant Director, Finance and Resources

John Wicks joined the Gallery in 2008. He is a fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and holds a Bachelor of Business with an accounting major from Charles Sturt University. He has over 18 years experience in the arts sector, including as Executive Director Finance and Services at the Australia Council for the Arts in Sydney and thereafter Chief Financial Officer at the Cultural Facilities Corporation in Canberra. His last position was Chief Financial Officer at the Hurstville City Council in Sydney. Mr Wicks is the chief financial officer and company secretary for the Art Gallery of NSW Trust, the Foundation, VisAsia and the Brett Whiteley Foundation. He is also responsible for human resources, strategic planning, legal services, government relations and records management, information communication technology, and visitor services, which includes the Gallery shop, venue hire and the management of the catering contract.

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Belinda Hanrahan
Director, Marketing

Belinda Hanrahan joined the Gallery in November 1992 as marketing manager. Prior to this she worked in marketing management for Unilever and Johnson and Johnson for ten years, later forming her own marketing training consultancy. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales.

Ms Hanrahan is responsible for the Gallery's marketing, which encompasses advertising and promotions, publicity, tourism, visitor services.

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Leith Brooke
Head of Business Development

Leith Brooke joined the Gallery in September 2003. Prior to this she worked in business development for Company B (Belvoir St Theatre) and in product management roles for Volvo Car Corporation in Brussels for 5 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) from the University of Technology Sydney.

Ms Brooke is responsible for the Gallery's business development department which attracts, secures and maintains corporate sponsorship that support the Gallery's major activities and programs. Inclusive of this is the management and development of the Gallery’s President’s Council and the VisAsia Business Council.

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Jackie Menzies
Head Curator, Asian Art

Jackie Menzies is the inaugural curator of Asian art at the Gallery. A separate department of Asian art was established in 1980 when a more active acquisition policy, concentrating on the arts of China, Korea and Japan, was initiated. The current Asian gallery, housing the largest display of Asian art in the country, was opened in 1990, then extended in 2003. Menzies worked on the current displays and has curated many exhibitions of Asian art, including Dancing to the Flute in 1997 and Buddha: Radiant awakening in 2001.

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Barry Pearce
Head Curator, Australian Art

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Judy Annear
Senior Curator, Photography

Judy Annear has worked in the art museum and independent arena since the mid 1970s. She curated Zones of Love: contemporary art from Japan 1991-92, was Australian Commissioner for the Biennale of Venice 1993 (artist Jenny Watson), member editorial committee Art & Text magazine 1987-94, and curated Australian Perspecta at the Art Gallery of New South Wales 1995. She managed the 1990 Biennale of Sydney for artistic director René Block, and has written extensively on contemporary art, photography, design and new media for Australian and international publications.

Since coming to the Gallery in late 1995, she has curated a number of collection-based exhibitions, including Portraits of Oceania (1997), What is this thing called photography? Australian photography 1975-1985, Light Pictures: the photographs of Nakayama Iwata and Nojima Yasuzo (both 1999) and American beauty: from Muybridge to Goldin (2003). In 2000 she curated World without End: photography and the 20th century and in 2001, Len Lye. Recent projects include Man Ray (2004), Bill Henson (2005) and the associated book Mnemosyne, and Lewis Morley (2006).

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Deborah Edwards
Senior Curator, Australian Art

Deborah Edwards was the first assistant curator of Australian art at Queensland Art Gallery, working there 1980-84 until returning to Sydney to begin post-graduate studies and tutor at Sydney University. Joining the Art Gallery of NSW in 1986, she became a curator and subsequently Senior Curator of Australian art. She specialises in 20th century art and has a strong interest in Australian sculpture. She has lectured and published widely and is the author of monographs on sculptors Lyndon Dadswell, Rayner Hoff and Robert Klippel, and painters Godfrey Miller and Margaret Preston.

She has mounted many exhibitions, including Stampede of the Lower Gods. Classical mythology in Australian art (1989), Australian sculpture 1890s-1910 (1990), the Godfrey Miller retrospective (1996), Rosalie Gascoigne: Material as Landscape (1998) and Rayner Hoff and his school (1999), and initiated the popular Australian Art Collection Focus series. Recent major exhibitions include the Robert Klippel retrospective (2002), Presence and Absence: Portrait sculpture in Australia (National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2003) and the Margaret Preston retrospective (2005).

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Hetti Perkins
Head Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art

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Hendrik Kolenberg
Senior Curator, Australian Prints, Drawings and Watercolours

Hendrik Kolenberg has worked in four state galleries, initially at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1972 as an Education Officer. He was Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Gallery of Western Australia 1975-80 and Curator of Art at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 1980-88, before taking up his present position at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1989.

He has written numerous texts on art in Australia, compiled catalogue raisonnés of the prints of Lloyd Rees and Roger Kemp, and organized many exhibitions, principally of Australian art. He was also responsible for a major bicentennial exhibition of colonial art, Tasmanian Vision: the art of nineteenth century Tasmania, in 1988.

He is responsible for four major catalogues of the Art Gallery of New South Wales' collection - 1880s-1990s: Australian watercolours from the Gallery's collection (1995), Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection (1997), Australian prints from the Gallery's collection (1998) and 19th century Australian watercolours, drawings and pastels from the Gallery's collection (2005).

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Brian Ladd
Head of Public Programs

Brian Ladd is Head of the Public Programs Department, a position he has occupied since 1996. In this key role Brian is responsible for making the Gallery's permanent collection and temporary exhibitions accessible to wide-ranging audiences. This is achieved through stimulating public education programs, and relevant publications. The Art Gallery has gained a reputation as a leader in this field of developing programs that create a sense of excitement, satisfaction, enjoyment and controversy that art engenders.

Brian has formal qualifications in sculpture, art education and museum education. He also has broad museum experience gained at the Art Gallery of New South Wales since 1979, including Co-ordinator of Education Programs (1986-95), Acting Curator of Sculpture, Australian Art Department (1990), Manager, Travelling Art Exhibitions (1983-86) and Education Officer (1979-83). He taught visual arts in secondary school prior to joining the Art Gallery (1975-79).

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Steven Miller
Head Librarian, Research Library and Archive (acting)

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