Board Advisors

NETS Victoria Board of Management

  • Bec Cole

    she/her
    palawa
    Executive Director and Co-CEO of Footscray Community Arts
    Chair: Board of Management
    Lives and works on Bunurong Country and Wurundjeri Country

    Bec Cole is the Chair of NETS Victoria, and the Executive Director and Co-CEO of Footscray Community Arts. She has previously worked extensively in local government spanning leadership, strategic and creative programming roles across public art, galleries, performing arts, major event and activity centre settings. Bec is a former Director of Latrobe Regional Gallery, led the establishment of Gippsland Performing Arts Centre and is a champion of creating access to contemporary art for everyone. Previously, Bec led the Arts & Culture program at Wyndham City Council. Here she implemented a bold exhibition program at Wyndham Art Gallery, establishing a curatorial model of practice that supports a diversity of perspectives and raised the profile of the gallery to national presence. Bec holds a Master of Commerce with specialties in business, economics and marketing; winning the prestigious RMIT Master of Commerce Prize in 2018. She also holds a Master of Community Cultural Development from the Victorian College of the Arts. Bec regularly writes articles on culture, creativity and community, and has an extensive background in community engagement and policy. Bec is proudly palawa.

     

  • Tammy Wong Hulbert

    she/her
    Lecturer, Masters of Arts (Art Management) in Curating
    RMIT University, School of Art
    Deputy Chair: Board of Management
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Dr Tammy Wong Hulbert is an artist, curator and academic in the RMIT University School of Art, lecturing in the Master of Arts (Arts Management) program specialising in curating. She is also the International and Art: History + Theory + Cultures Coordinator. Tammy’s research focuses on curating inclusive cities, enacted through collaborations with marginalised urban communities, to care for and represent their perspectives in globalising cities. Tammy’s art practice stems from her interest in expressing the multi-layered and fragmented space between cultures, due to living in a super-diverse, postcolonial society. As a curator, she has worked with a wide range of Asian contemporary artists in Sydney, Melbourne, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Hong Kong, in galleries, museums and public spaces.

    Photograph (detail): Shane Hulbert

  • Amy Cao

    she/her
    Commercial Finance Partner, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
    Treasurer: Board of Management
    Chair: Development and Fundraising Committee
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Amy Cao is an analytical and purpose-driven Certified Practicing Accountant with over 15 years of experience in financial accounting and statutory reporting, tax reporting and compliance, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis. Her experience includes project management, finance policy design and implementation, as well as continuous process improvement for various sectors, including higher education, financial services, and public accounting services.

    Photograph: Nick Owen

  • David Sequeira

    he/him
    Director, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
    Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
    Chair: Artistic Program Advisory Committee
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Born New Delhi, India

    Artist, curator and academic Dr David Sequeira’s studio practice focusses on the use of colour and geometry in the creation of contemplative experiences. Working across media, David explores issues around high and low art, personal and shared histories, banality and profundity and the reverberations of colonization. Major solo exhibitions of his work have been shown at the Art Gallery of NSW, John Curtin Gallery, Perth; University of Queensland Art Museum and Nature Morte Gallery New Delhi. David’s residencies and awards include the Australia Council for the Arts studio Paris, Artist in residence University of Texas, Dallas and the Wyndham Art Prize. Prior to his current role as Director, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery at the University of Melbourne, David held senior positions in major national cultural institutions including Australian Parliament House, National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, National Film and Sound Archive.

    Photograph (detail): Guilia McGauran

  • Nasalifya Namugala Namwinga

    she/her
    Senior Clinical Psychologist, Pola Practice
    Lives on Wurundjeri Country, works on Bunurong and Wurundjeri Country

    Nasalifya Namugala Namwinga is a Zambian, Naarm (Melbourne)-based clinical psychologist. She is passionate about working from an inter-sectional perspective to support clients, with a particular interest in culturally responsive practice. She trained as a clinical psychologist in Aotearoa (New Zealand) before moving to Melbourne and founding Pola Practice.

    Photograph (detail): Wani Toa

  • Nicole Monteiro

    she/her
    Head of Exhibitions Management, National Gallery of Victoria
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Nicole is an arts management professional, with over 22 years’ experience in Exhibitions Management. She joined the National Gallery of Victoria in 2000 and has overseen the delivery of hundreds of exhibitions, including the NGV Triennial and Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibitions, as well as the annual Architecture Commissions. Nicole manages the exhibitions program at both NGV Australia, NGV International and the NGV touring program. She oversees the Exhibitions Management and Exhibition & Collections Operations departments and is on the NGV Environmental Committee, and the Disability Access Committee. She has previously served as the NGV representative on the Board of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria (2008-2011).

  • Rhynah Subrun

    she/her
    Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning: Victorian Government
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Rhynah Subrun is an environmental sustainability professional with experience across a range of areas: policy development, program management, governance and reporting, legislative reform, planning and impact assessment, funding and sustainable procurement. She has worked for government, private and international organisations both in Australia and Mauritius.

    Rhynah spent her childhood in Zimbabwe and teenage years in Mauritius. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, specialising in environmental law, management and business.

    Rhynah is passionate about multiculturalism and promotion of intercultural competency, particularly in the workplace and as part of organisational service delivery.

  • David Cross

    he/him
    Professor of Visual Arts and Co-Director of Public Art Commission (PAC), Deakin University, Melbourne
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    David Cross is an artist, writer and curator based in Melbourne. Working across performance, installation, video and photography, Cross explores the relationship between pleasure, intimacy and the phobic in his works, and often incorporates participation by linking performance art with object-based environments. The monograph of his practice Air Supplied was published by Punctum books Los Angeles in 2018. As a curator Cross has produced a number of temporary public projects, including One Day Sculpture (with Claire Doherty) across New Zealand in 2008-09, and Iteration: Again in Tasmania in 2011.He recently co-founded the research initiative Public Art Commission (PAC) at Deakin University which is devoted to the commissioning and scholarship of temporary public art. Recent PAC projects co-developed with Cameron Bishop include, Treatment with Melbourne Water and City of Wyndham (2015-23),  Venetian Blind with European Cultural Centre, Venice (2019), and Six Moments in Kingston for the City of Kingston (2019). A former deputy chair of the City of Melbourne Public Art advisory Panel, Cross is Treasurer of the Australian Deans of Design and Creative Arts. He is currently Professor of Visual Arts and Co-Director of PAC at Deakin University, Melbourne.

  • Rachel Arndt

    she/her
    Director, Wangaratta Art Gallery
    Lives and works on Bpangerang and Yorta Yorta Country in Regional Victoria

    Rachel Arndt is currently the Director of Wangaratta Art Gallery in Northeast Victoria. Rachel has over two decades of experience in the visual arts in Australia and internationally. Her commitment to regional gallery practice was cemented through a decade with Museums and Galleries of NSW, leading a comprehensive range of programs, strategic initiatives, funding opportunities, and professional development events for the gallery sector, including one of the largest regional touring exhibition programs of contemporary art in Australia.

    In early 2021, she moved to Queensland to lead The Condensery in Toogoolawah, where she implemented the gallery’s inaugural strategic vision and artistic program, including the first professionally curated suite of exhibitions. With a deep commitment to connecting artists and art with audiences, she established a new learning and engagement program focusing on children and young people, implemented a comprehensive rebrand, and embarked on a marketing strategy to build the gallery’s profile and reach.

    Rachel spent four years in the UK working across exhibitions, loans, acquisitions, and collection management for the Arts Council Collection, London and Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford. She holds a Master of Arts Administration from UNSW and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the University of Sydney.

    Photograph (detail): Michael Peters.

  • Claire Watson

    Claire Watson

    she/her
    Director, NETS Victoria
    Secretary, Board of Management
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Claire Watson is a passionate contributor to the arts community through her role on boards and advisory committees, as a judge for industry prizes, a writer, and lecturer. Her professional experience includes serving as an advisor on the Touring Panel for Creative Victoria (2014-2016), board member of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria (2017-2019) chairing their Advocacy and Research Committee; and a range of senior roles at arts organisations including BLINDSIDE, Asialink, Gippsland Art Gallery, and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. Claire has curated over 100 exhibitions including the Artspace Mackay touring exhibition Violent Salt co-curated with Yhonnie Scarce; NETS Victoria/BLINDSIDE touring exhibition Synthetica (2015-2016); and the Asialink/BLINDSIDE touring exhibition Vertigo (2014). She has been a guest speaker at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei; Galerie Soemardja, Indonesia; and the TransCultural Exchange Conference, USA. Claire is an Affiliate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a member of the National Association of Visual Arts, an advocate for inclusive practices and a lover of innovation.

    Photograph: Kate Longley

  • Isobel Morphy-Walsh

    she/her
    Taun Wurrung
    Independent Artist & Curator
    Board member – Associate
    First Nations Engagement Coordinator
    Lives on Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) biik (country) in regional Victoria, and works across Kulin country

    Isobel Morphy-Walsh is a proud Nirim Baluk Woman from the Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) people. She is a lover of anecdote, an artist, activist, educator, curator, storyteller and weaver.

    Isobel’s creative practice is wide ranging and includes: weaving, lino printing, painting, fabric creation, woodwork, cultural objects and adornments, and more recently metals.

    Isobel’s curatorial practice extends to education and has a strong and deliberate focus on First Nations narratives. She supports the need to decolonize, particularly through the treatment and interpretation of artworks, objects and images, with a focus on the communities they come from and approaches taken in development. Isobel embeds the values of her culture and ancestors in all that she does.

    Photograph (detail): Victoria Morphy

Artistic Program Advisory Committee

  • David Sequeira

    he/him
    Director, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
    Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
    Chair: Artistic Program Advisory Committee
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Born New Delhi, India

    Artist, curator and academic Dr David Sequeira’s studio practice focusses on the use of colour and geometry in the creation of contemplative experiences. Working across media, David explores issues around high and low art, personal and shared histories, banality and profundity and the reverberations of colonization. Major solo exhibitions of his work have been shown at the Art Gallery of NSW, John Curtin Gallery, Perth; University of Queensland Art Museum and Nature Morte Gallery New Delhi. David’s residencies and awards include the Australia Council for the Arts studio Paris, Artist in residence University of Texas, Dallas and the Wyndham Art Prize. Prior to his current role as Director, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery at the University of Melbourne, David held senior positions in major national cultural institutions including Australian Parliament House, National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, National Film and Sound Archive.

    Photograph (detail): Guilia McGauran

  • Myles Russell-Cook

    he/him
    Wotjobaluk
    Senior Curator, Australian and First Nations Art
    National Gallery of Victoria

    Myles Russell-Cook is the Senior Curator, Australian and First Nations Art at the National Gallery of Victoria. He is jointly responsible for the National Gallery of Victoria’s collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and the Art of Oceania, Pre-hispanic America and Africa. Myles passion is for First Nations contemporary art, and much of his influence and inspiration comes from his own maternal Aboriginal heritage in Western Victoria with connections into Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands. Myles has lectured in Art History, Design Anthropology and Indigenous Studies at Swinburne University, and he is currently editor of the NGV’s annual scholarly publication, The Art Journal.

  • Yhonnie Scarce

    she/her
    Kokatha and Nukunu
    Artist

    Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu Peoples. A master contemporary glass blower, her practice explores the political nature and aesthetic qualities of glass. Scarce’s work often references the on-going effects of colonisation on Aboriginal people. Family history is central to Scarce’s work, drawing on the strength of her ancestors, she offers herself as a conduit, sharing their significant stories from the past. Scarce was the winner of the prestigious NGV Architecture Commission 2019. In 2018 Scarce was the recipient of the Kate Challis RAKA award, for her contribution to the visual arts in Australia, as well as the Indigenous Ceramic Award from the Shepparton Art Museum. Her involvement in international exhibitions includes the Pavilion of Contemporary Art, Milan; and the Museum of London, Ontario, Canada. Previous international shows include the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India, 2018; 55th Venice Biennale collateral exhibition Personal Structures 2013, Venice; Harvard Art Museum, Massachusetts 2016; and Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum, Virginia, USA 2012.

    Photograph (detail): Janelle Low

  • Eric Nash

    he/him
    Director
    Benalla Art Gallery

    Eric Nash is an arts professional with qualifications in Visual Art, Arts Administration, and Management, and a wealth of experience in the gallery sector.
    Eric was appointed in 2019 to lead the Benalla Art Gallery – a cultural and architectural icon of northeast Victoria since it opened in 1975, with a significant Collection spanning three centuries of Australian art. Eric was previously the General Manager for the country’s leading lens-based media gallery, the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Eric has also developed training programs for Victorian galleries’ peak body, the Public Galleries Association of Victoria. He is experienced in working in public galleries in a regional context, having worked for Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and Pinnacles Gallery in Townsville for nine years, including as Curator from 2013 to 2016.

  • David Fitzsimmons

    he/him
    Creative Urban Places Project Lead
    City of Melbourne

    David Fitzsimmons is a senior program lead and producer of collaborative public art projects with over 30 years’ experience in arts practice and cultural industries. His experience spans local and state government, private art consultancies, commercial and public galleries, art and architectural practice.

    His experience includes team leadership, strategy and cultural policy development, arts program and collections management. In his current role in the Creative Urban Places team at the City of Melbourne, David produced comprehensive developer guidelines for art project commissioning and street art. His current focus is leading a number of significant collaborations with Naarm’s Aboriginal communities including the Stolen Generations.

    David’s extensive time in Local Government settings – capital city, suburban and regional – has included design and delivery of cultural facilities and programs with a strong focus on inclusion and accessibility. He is an occasional presenter in tertiary settings and has Chaired Deakin University’s Course Advisory Panel for Undergraduate and Masters of Creative Arts programs.

    Holding a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours), a Graduate Diploma of Art in Public Places (RMIT University) and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Monash University), David was three times a finalist in the McClelland Sculpture Prize.

  • Eugenia Lim

    she/her
    Artist

    Eugenia Lim is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist of Chinese-Singaporean heritage who works across body, lens, social and spatial practice to explore how migration, capital and encounter cut, divide and bond our interdependent world. Based on unceded lands in the Kulin Nation, Lim has shown at the Tate Modern (London), LOOP (Barcelona), Recontemporary (Turin), Kassel Dokfest, Museum of Contemporary Art (Syd), ACCA, Next Wave, FACT (Liverpool), and EXiS (Seoul). She co-founded CHANNELS Festival, co-wrote and hosted Video Becomes Us on ABC iView and is a former co-director at APHIDS. Lim has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre (NY), Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio, and Gertrude Contemporary. Lim is a 2022 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow and winner of Charlottenborg Spring’s 2022 Deep Forest Art Land Award. Eugenia Lim is represented by STATION.

    Photograph (Detail): Bryony Jackson

  • Isobel Morphy-Walsh

    she/her
    Taun Wurrung
    Independent Artist & Curator
    Board member – Associate
    First Nations Engagement Coordinator
    Lives on Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) biik (country) in regional Victoria, and works across Kulin country

    Isobel Morphy-Walsh is a proud Nirim Baluk Woman from the Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) people. She is a lover of anecdote, an artist, activist, educator, curator, storyteller and weaver.

    Isobel’s creative practice is wide ranging and includes: weaving, lino printing, painting, fabric creation, woodwork, cultural objects and adornments, and more recently metals.

    Isobel’s curatorial practice extends to education and has a strong and deliberate focus on First Nations narratives. She supports the need to decolonize, particularly through the treatment and interpretation of artworks, objects and images, with a focus on the communities they come from and approaches taken in development. Isobel embeds the values of her culture and ancestors in all that she does.

    Photograph (detail): Victoria Morphy

Development and Fundraising Committee

  • Bec Cole

    she/her
    palawa
    Executive Director and Co-CEO of Footscray Community Arts
    Chair: Board of Management
    Lives and works on Bunurong Country and Wurundjeri Country

    Bec Cole is the Chair of NETS Victoria, and the Executive Director and Co-CEO of Footscray Community Arts. She has previously worked extensively in local government spanning leadership, strategic and creative programming roles across public art, galleries, performing arts, major event and activity centre settings. Bec is a former Director of Latrobe Regional Gallery, led the establishment of Gippsland Performing Arts Centre and is a champion of creating access to contemporary art for everyone. Previously, Bec led the Arts & Culture program at Wyndham City Council. Here she implemented a bold exhibition program at Wyndham Art Gallery, establishing a curatorial model of practice that supports a diversity of perspectives and raised the profile of the gallery to national presence. Bec holds a Master of Commerce with specialties in business, economics and marketing; winning the prestigious RMIT Master of Commerce Prize in 2018. She also holds a Master of Community Cultural Development from the Victorian College of the Arts. Bec regularly writes articles on culture, creativity and community, and has an extensive background in community engagement and policy. Bec is proudly palawa.

     

  • Amy Cao

    she/her
    Commercial Finance Partner, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
    Treasurer: Board of Management
    Chair: Development and Fundraising Committee
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Amy Cao is an analytical and purpose-driven Certified Practicing Accountant with over 15 years of experience in financial accounting and statutory reporting, tax reporting and compliance, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis. Her experience includes project management, finance policy design and implementation, as well as continuous process improvement for various sectors, including higher education, financial services, and public accounting services.

    Photograph: Nick Owen

  • Nicole Monteiro

    she/her
    Head of Exhibitions Management, National Gallery of Victoria
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Nicole is an arts management professional, with over 22 years’ experience in Exhibitions Management. She joined the National Gallery of Victoria in 2000 and has overseen the delivery of hundreds of exhibitions, including the NGV Triennial and Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibitions, as well as the annual Architecture Commissions. Nicole manages the exhibitions program at both NGV Australia, NGV International and the NGV touring program. She oversees the Exhibitions Management and Exhibition & Collections Operations departments and is on the NGV Environmental Committee, and the Disability Access Committee. She has previously served as the NGV representative on the Board of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria (2008-2011).

First Nations Advisory Committee

  • Steven Rhall

    he/him
    Taungurung
    Independent Artist

    Steven Rhall’s art practice finds expression in institutional critique, interrogating modes of representation, classification and hierarchy within the art world and otherwise. His projects often explore the exchange of economic and cultural capital in the matrix of relations and intersections of First Nation art production, presentation and encounter. As a Taungurung person, this positionality further informs his output, including various forms and interventions, including installation, performance, process-led methods, curatorial projects, sculpture and art within the public realm. Steven is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary and is represented by Mars Gallery.

  • Isobel Morphy-Walsh

    she/her
    Taun Wurrung
    Independent Artist & Curator
    Board member – Associate
    First Nations Engagement Coordinator
    Lives on Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) biik (country) in regional Victoria, and works across Kulin country

    Isobel Morphy-Walsh is a proud Nirim Baluk Woman from the Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) people. She is a lover of anecdote, an artist, activist, educator, curator, storyteller and weaver.

    Isobel’s creative practice is wide ranging and includes: weaving, lino printing, painting, fabric creation, woodwork, cultural objects and adornments, and more recently metals.

    Isobel’s curatorial practice extends to education and has a strong and deliberate focus on First Nations narratives. She supports the need to decolonize, particularly through the treatment and interpretation of artworks, objects and images, with a focus on the communities they come from and approaches taken in development. Isobel embeds the values of her culture and ancestors in all that she does.

    Photograph (detail): Victoria Morphy

Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group

  • Tammy Wong Hulbert

    she/her
    Lecturer, Masters of Arts (Art Management) in Curating
    RMIT University, School of Art
    Deputy Chair: Board of Management
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Dr Tammy Wong Hulbert is an artist, curator and academic in the RMIT University School of Art, lecturing in the Master of Arts (Arts Management) program specialising in curating. She is also the International and Art: History + Theory + Cultures Coordinator. Tammy’s research focuses on curating inclusive cities, enacted through collaborations with marginalised urban communities, to care for and represent their perspectives in globalising cities. Tammy’s art practice stems from her interest in expressing the multi-layered and fragmented space between cultures, due to living in a super-diverse, postcolonial society. As a curator, she has worked with a wide range of Asian contemporary artists in Sydney, Melbourne, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Hong Kong, in galleries, museums and public spaces.

    Photograph (detail): Shane Hulbert

  • Steven Rhall

    he/him
    Taungurung
    Independent Artist

    Steven Rhall’s art practice finds expression in institutional critique, interrogating modes of representation, classification and hierarchy within the art world and otherwise. His projects often explore the exchange of economic and cultural capital in the matrix of relations and intersections of First Nation art production, presentation and encounter. As a Taungurung person, this positionality further informs his output, including various forms and interventions, including installation, performance, process-led methods, curatorial projects, sculpture and art within the public realm. Steven is a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary and is represented by Mars Gallery.

  • Claire Watson

    Claire Watson

    she/her
    Director, NETS Victoria
    Secretary, Board of Management
    Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country

    Claire Watson is a passionate contributor to the arts community through her role on boards and advisory committees, as a judge for industry prizes, a writer, and lecturer. Her professional experience includes serving as an advisor on the Touring Panel for Creative Victoria (2014-2016), board member of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria (2017-2019) chairing their Advocacy and Research Committee; and a range of senior roles at arts organisations including BLINDSIDE, Asialink, Gippsland Art Gallery, and Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. Claire has curated over 100 exhibitions including the Artspace Mackay touring exhibition Violent Salt co-curated with Yhonnie Scarce; NETS Victoria/BLINDSIDE touring exhibition Synthetica (2015-2016); and the Asialink/BLINDSIDE touring exhibition Vertigo (2014). She has been a guest speaker at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei; Galerie Soemardja, Indonesia; and the TransCultural Exchange Conference, USA. Claire is an Affiliate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a member of the National Association of Visual Arts, an advocate for inclusive practices and a lover of innovation.

    Photograph: Kate Longley

  • Jessica Row

    she/her
    Exhibitions and Collections Curator, Koorie Heritage Trust

    Jessica Row has over ten years’ experience working for public, university and not-for-profit galleries in Narrm/Melbourne and Meanjin/Brisbane. She is currently a Curator at Koorie Heritage Trust, and previously Exhibitions Coordinator for NETS Victoria. Prior to this she held curatorial roles for regional and metropolitan council galleries. She has worked at the Venice Biennale with Creative Australia to help present Tracey Moffatt’s (2017) and Angelica Mesiti’s (2019) solo exhibitions at the Australia Pavilion. Separate to curatorial projects for current and past roles, Jessica has also curated ‘Rewriting the score’ for Climarte Festival (2019) and ‘Archives in Motion’ at TarraWarra Museum of Art with Liquid Architecture (2017). Jessica holds a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.

  • Isobel Morphy-Walsh

    she/her
    Taun Wurrung
    Independent Artist & Curator
    Board member – Associate
    First Nations Engagement Coordinator
    Lives on Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) biik (country) in regional Victoria, and works across Kulin country

    Isobel Morphy-Walsh is a proud Nirim Baluk Woman from the Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) people. She is a lover of anecdote, an artist, activist, educator, curator, storyteller and weaver.

    Isobel’s creative practice is wide ranging and includes: weaving, lino printing, painting, fabric creation, woodwork, cultural objects and adornments, and more recently metals.

    Isobel’s curatorial practice extends to education and has a strong and deliberate focus on First Nations narratives. She supports the need to decolonize, particularly through the treatment and interpretation of artworks, objects and images, with a focus on the communities they come from and approaches taken in development. Isobel embeds the values of her culture and ancestors in all that she does.

    Photograph (detail): Victoria Morphy

  • 2023

    Bec Cole – Chair
    Tammy Wong Hulbert – Deputy Chair
    Michael Fox – Treasurer (until March 2023)
    Amy Cao – Treasurer (from March 2023)
    Claire Watson – Secretary
    Isobel Morphy-Walsh (Rejoined March 2023)
    David Sequeira
    Nasalifya Namwinga
    Nicole Monteiro
    Joshua White (until September 2023)
    Rhynah Subrun
    David Cross (from June 2023)
    Rachel Arndt (from September 2023)

  • 2022

    Bec Cole – Chair
    Tammy Wong Hulbert – Deputy Chair
    Michael Fox – Treasurer
    Claire Watson – Secretary
    David Sequeira
    Nasalifya Namwinga
    Nicole Monteiro (from July 2022)
    Joshua White (from October 2022)
    Rhynah Subrun (from October 2022)
    David Hurlston (until July 2022)
    Isobel Morphy-Walsh – Deputy Chair (until 8 June 2022)
    Clare Leporati – (Deputy Chair until March 2022)
    Nikki Lam (until March 2022)
    Jan van Schaik (until March 2022)
  • 2021

    Bec Cole – Chair (from March 2021)
    Penny Teale – Chair (until March 2021)
    Clare Leporati – Deputy Chair
    Catherine Pierce – Secretary (until February 2021)
    Claire Watson – Secretary (from February 2021)
    Michael Fox – Treasurer (from March 2021)
    Ben Macauley – Treasurer (until March 2021)
    Jan van Schaik
    David Hurlston
    Nikki Lam
    David Sequeira (from February 2021)
    Tammy Wong-Hulbert (from February 2021)
    Isobel Morphy-Walsh (from September 2021)
    Nasalifya Namwinga (from March 2021)
  • 2020

    Penny Teale – Chair from March 2020
    Adam Harding – Chair until March 2020
    Clare Leporati – Deputy Chair
    Catherine Pierce – Secretary
    Ben Macauley – Treasurer
    Jan van Schaik
    David Hurlston
    Bec Cole (from February 2020)
    Nikki Lam (from March 2020)
    Lyn Johnson (until October 2020)
  • 2019

    Adam Harding – Chair
    Penny Teale – Deputy Chair
    Catherine Pierce – Secretary
    Ben Macauley – Treasurer
    Clare Leporati
    Jan van Schaik
    David Hurlston
    Lyn Johnson
    Penny Byrne (until June 2019)
  • 2018

    Adam Harding – Chair
    Penny Teale – Deputy Chair
    Catherine Pierce – Secretary
    Ben Macauley – Treasurer
    Clare Leporati
    Jan van Schaik
    David Hurlston
    Lyn Johnson
    Penny Byrne
    Sarah Bond (until June 2018)
    John Meade (until June 2018)
  • 2017

    Sarah Bond – Chair
    John Meade – Deputy Chair
    Catherine Pierce – Secretary
    Ben Macauley – Treasurer
    Adam Harding
    Penny Teale
    David Hurlston
    Emma Telfer
  • 2016

    Sarah Bond – Chair
    John Meade – Deputy Chair
    Catherine Pierce – Secretary
    Steve Smith – Treasurer (until 1 March 2016)
    Rekkae Moorthy – Treasurer
    Adam Harding
    Penny Teale
    Phip Murray
    Simon Gregg
    David Hurlston
    Emma Telfer
  • 2015

    Sarah Bond – Chair
    John Meade – Deputy Chair
    Catherine Pierce – Secretary
    Steve Smith – Treasurer
    Adam Harding
    Penny Teale
    Phip Murray
    Simon Gregg
    David Hurlston
    Emma Telfer
  • 2014

    Sarah Bond – Chair
    Kirrily Hammond – Deputy Chair
    Steve Smith – Treasurer
    Catherine Pierce – Secretary
    John Meade
    Adam Harding
    Penny Teale
    David Hurlston
  • 2013

    Sarah Bond – Chair
    Kirrily Hammond – Deputy Chair
    Steve Smith – Treasurer
    Catherine Pierce – Secretary (from May 2013)
    Murray Bowes (until October 2013)
    Meaghan Pellicano (until May 2013)
    John Meade
    Adam Harding
    Penny Teale
    David Hurlston
  • 2012

    Joe Pascoe – Chair (until May 2012)
    Zara Stanhope – Chair (from May 2012 – December 2012)
    Sarah Bond – Chair (from December 2012)
    Murray Bowes – Deputy Chair
    Meaghan Pellicano – Treasurer
    Alex Farrar – Secretary (until December 2012)
    Anthony Camm (until January 2012)
    Kirrily Hammond
    Adam Harding (from May 2012)
    John Meade
    Emily Myer (until August 2012)
    David Hurlston
  • 2011

    Joe Pascoe – Chair
    Murray Bowes – Deputy Chair
    Meaghan Pellicano – Treasurer
    Alex Farrar – Secretary
    Sarah Bond
    Anthony Camm
    Kirrily Hammond (from February 2011)
    John Meade (from February 2011)
    Emil Myer (from February 2011)
    Zara Stanhope
    David Hurlston
  • 2010

    Joe Pascoe – Chair
    Murray Bowes – Deputy Chair
    Meaghan Evans – Treasurer (from April 2010)
    Alex Farrar – Secretary
    Emily Floyd (until July 2010)
    Professor Paul Clarkson (until July 2010)
    Anthony Camm
    Zara Stanhope
    David Hurlston
  • 2008/09

    Joe Pascoe – Chair (from September 2009)
    Alex Taylor – Chair (Until August 2009)
    Erica Sanders – Deputy Chair (Until August 2009)
    Murray Bowes – Deputy Chair (from October 2009)
    Meredith Windust – Treasurer
    Professor Paul Clarkson
    Alex Farrar
    Emily Floyd
    Bryony Nainby
    Anthony Camm
    Zara Stanhope
    David Hurlston
  • 2007/08

    Alex Taylor – Chair
    Helen Kaptein – Deputy Chair
    Meredith Windust – Treasurer
    Eric Sanders – Secretary
    Murray Bowes
    Professor Paul Clarkson
    Emily Floyd
    Carmen Grostal
    Rodney James
    Meredith Squires
    David Hurlston