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

As at 11 June 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 2008

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Mr David Baffsky AO
David Baffsky is chairman of Accor Asia Pacific, the largest hotel management company in the Asia Pacific, director of Tourism Asset Holdings, director and life member of the Tourism Task Force and director of the Indigenous Land Corporation. 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 June 2001 he was awarded 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. In 2007 Mr Baffsky was appointed to the federal government's Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce and the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2006
Current term expires: 31 December 2008

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Mr Guido Belgiorno-Nettis
Managing Director, Transfield Pty Ltd; Director, Transfield Services Ltd; Chairman, Australian Chamber Orchestra; Chairman, Campus Living Villages Pty Ltd; Director, Middle Harbour Yacht Club.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2007
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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Ms Anne Fulwood
Television journalist and presenter. Member of the Council for the Australian Honours, the Film and Literature Board of Review, Interim Board of the National Film and Sound Archive and Luna Park Reserve Trust.
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 2008

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Ms Sandra McPhee
Non-executive director Coles Myer Ltd, Australia Post, Perpetual Trustees, St Vincent's and Mater Health. Has over 25 years experience in the management of consumer facing organisations at a senior level, including executive roles in the international aviation and tourism industries, where she was most recently 10 years with Qantas Airways.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2004
Current term expires: 31 December 2010

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Prof. Janice Reid AM
Vice-chancellor, University of Western Sydney. Member of Integral Energy Board, Federal Council for Australia-Latin American Relations (COALAR), Salvation Army Greater Western Sydney Advisory Board. Australian representative, Governing Board of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s program on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE). Patron, Kedumba Drawing Award. Former member, Federal Government Higher Education Review Group (2002). Former chair, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Former trustee, Queensland Museum. Former deputy chair, Queensland Institute of Medical Research. Chair 1994-95 National Review of Nursing Education. Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Wellcome Medal. Centenary Medal. Fellow of Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2004
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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Mr John Schaeffer AO
Founder and executive chairman of Tempo Services Limited. Order of Australia (2003). Member of the National Gallery of Australia Foundation Board and the Board of the National Portrait Gallery. Former president of the Australian Building Services Association and the World Federation of Building Service Contractors.
Initial appointment: 13 August 2001
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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Mr Imants Tillers
Visual artist, writer and curator. Since 1973 has had solo exhibitions in Australia, Germany, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and USA, and a major survey of his work was held in 2006 at the National Gallery of Australia. 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. Awarded a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) for 'his long and distinguished contribution to the field of arts' by the University of New South Wales in 2005.
Initial appointment: 1 January 2001
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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Mr Peter Francis Young
Chairman, Investment Banking, ABN AMRO Group (Australia and New Zealand), Delta Electricity, Export Finance & Insurance Corporation. Director of Australian Business Arts Foundation, Sydney Theatre Company and Greet Barrier Reef Research Foundation. Former chairman, National Rail Corporation. Director of the NSW State Transit Authority, NSW Maritime Services Board. Member of the Takeover Panel.
Initial appointment: 13 August 2001
Current term expires: 31 December 2009

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SENIOR STAFF

Edmund Capon, AM, OBE
DIRECTOR

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 casua) 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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Anthony Bond
General Manager, 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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Anne Flanagan
General Manager, Exhibitions and Building Services

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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John Wicks
General Manager, Finance and Management Services

John Wicks joined the Gallery in October 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 in New South Wales. He has over eighteen years experience in the arts sector. He was 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 Trust, the Foundation, VisAsia and the Brett Whiteley Foundation. He is also responsible for human resources management, corporate services, strategic planning, administration, copyright, information technology departments and the commercial services, which includes the Gallery Shop, Venue Hire and the management of the catering contract.

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Belinda Hanrahan
General Manager, 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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Alan Lloyd
Head of Conservation

Alan Lloyd has been the Head of Conservation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales since 1977. He originally commenced employment at the Gallery in July 1963 as a cadet restorer and qualified as a Conservator in 1967.

In 1969 he had six months advanced study in the Conservation Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Following this, a further two months at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence, Italy.

Alan Lloyd has attended various international IIC and ICOM conservation conferences and over a period of 36 years acquired a wide and varied knowledge of many aspects of gallery/museum practice.

Mr Lloyd is responsible for the preservation of the entire Gallery collection by supervising and coordinating the collective activities of the specialist conservation staff. He is personally responsible for all conservation aspects of temporary exhibitions.

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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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Susan Schmocker
Head Librarian, Research Library and Archive

Susan Schmocker has been Head Librarian at the AGNSW since 1983. Prior to joining the Gallery, she was employed as a Reference Librarian by the State Library of New South Wales and also worked in a number of Special Libraries.

During the period of Susan's management at the Gallery, the Library's collection has tripled in size necessitating the relocation of the entire Library twice. Due to her initiation an Archive was established in 1994, with a continuing programme of exhibitions and publications. This was the first artist archive to be established in an Australian art gallery.

Susan has played an active role in art library professional activities. She has been Treasurer for the Art Libraries Society Australia and New Zealand (ARLIS/ANZ) National Executive in 1996 and 1999 and is currently Chair and Treasurer of the NSW Chapter of ARLIS/ANZ. In 1988 and 1995 she hosted two major Art Library conferences at the Gallery.

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