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Our Team
Our Team
Board of Management
Chair
Joe Pascoe
CEO and Artistic Director, Craft Victoria
Joe Pascoe has been interested in Australian crafts since the 1980s and is today CEO and Artistic Director of Craft Victoria. Pascoe was a founding graduate of Australia's first museum studies course, which was first offered at Prahran College of Advanced Education in 1979. Before joining Craft Victoria, Pascoe held leadership roles at the Shepparton Art Gallery and the Australia Council for the Arts.
Treasurer
Meaghan Evans
Manager, Ernst & Young
Meaghan Evans is an accountant at Ernst & Young in their Assurance practice. Evans has a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) from RMIT and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Evans has experience across a broad range of industries, ranging from ASX listed clients to the not-for-profit sector.
Deputy Chair
Murray Bowes
Curator, Warrnambool Art Gallery
Murray Bowes has been in vairous roles at Warrnambool Art Gallery, inlcuding Director and Curator, since 1982. He holds a Diploma of Fine Arts from Deakin University. Bowes is currently a Member of the Committee for the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Art and a member of the Board of the Public Galleries Association of Victoria. From 2004-07 he was a member of the Visions of Australia Committee of the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
Secretary
Alex Farrar
Senior Associate, Shiff & Company
Alex Farrar is a Senior Associate at Shiff & Company where she provides legal and commercial advice to clients in the film, digital media, publishing and gaming industries. Alex is both a member of Generation Y and an experienced entertainment lawyer, so her pragmatic approach applies "old media" principles to emerging communications and entertainment platforms. Alex holds a Masters in Communications Law at Melbourne University and has authored articles about transformative uses of traditional copyright materials and Australia’s local content requirements on commercial television.
In addition to her role as the company secretary of NETS Victoria, Alex is on the Advisory Board of the Games and Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEElab).
Anthony Camm
Director Ararat Regional Art Gallery
Anthony Camm has been Director of the Ararat Regional Art Gallery since 2007. He has 15 years experience working in a wide range of arts roles across all areas of project delivery, policy development and administration. From 2002 to 2006 he led Wyndham City Council’s public art program as the City's Arts and Cultural Development Officer. His work at Footscray Community Arts Centre between 1996 and 2000 included the presentation of over 50 exhibitions, amongst other projects. Anthony has a BA from LaTrobe University and qualifications in art history and art curatorship from Melbourne University.
Zara Stanhope
Independent Curator
Zara Stanhope is a curator and writer based in Melbourne, Victoria, and a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her institutional roles have included Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2002−08); inaugural Director of the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1999–2002), and Assistant Director, Monash University Gallery (1993–1999). Currently she is also the Australian Project curator of Port Journeys, an international artist exchange network.
Recent curated exhibitions include: Objects to Live By, The Art of John Meade (a NETS touring exhibition 2009–2010); The world in painting (Asia and Australia, 2007-09) and Perfect for every occasion: photography today (2007). Zara is Chair of un Projects, publisher of un Magazine; a Board member of NETS (Victoria), and RMIT School of Art Galleries, and a National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) Mentor. She was a Board member of the South Project (2009–2010), and is on the Editorial Committee of the forthcoming South Project publication.
Recent publications include the books: Les Kossatz, The Art of Existence (2008) and The Cbus Collection (2009), and she has a chapter in the forthcoming book Re-imagining the City: art, globalisation and urban spaces.
Sarah Bond
Director Visual Arts Program, Asialink
Sarah Bond is the Director of the Visual Arts Program at Asialink, the University of Melbourne. Since late 2005, she has been responsible for the development and management of the Asialink Touring Exhibition Program and the arts residency program. She is an advisory member to various organisations including the City of Melbourne Public Laneways Commission and the South Project. Sarah has worked in the Australian visual arts/crafts and museum sector for over a decade as an administrator (Museums Australia (Vic) 1998-2000) and curator (Craft Victoria 2000-2005) . She is a regular contributor to contemporary Australian art and craft magazines and journals. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Art Curatorship/ Museum Management from the University of Melbourne and BFA (Art History/ Sculpture) from Victorian College of the Arts.
Emily Myer
Independent arts consultant
Kirrily Hammond
Curator – Collection, Monash University Museum of Art
Kirrily Hammond is Curator – Collection at the Monash University Museum of Art. She completed a BAVA (Hons) at Canberra and Glasgow Schools of Art in 1997, and a curatorial Masters degree at the University of Melbourne in 2003. Kirrily has worked in the arts sector since 1995 and curatorial projects include 15 Minutes of Fame; 20 Years of Pop Prints, NGV 2004; Premonitions: The Monash University Collection 1961-2007, McClelland Gallery 2008; Richard Lewer: Nobody Likes a Show Off, MUMA 2009, and The Devil had a Daughter, MUMA 2011. Kirrily is also a practicing artist whose work is held in numerous private collections, as well as several university and regional gallery collections.
John Meade
Artist
Melbourne-based sculptor John Meade is one of Australia’s leading artists and has held regular individual and group exhibitions with galleries and museums since 1995. Selected solo exhibitions include: Show Business (2009), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne and Incident in the Museum 2 (2004) Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Propulsion at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2001). John Meade’s work is held in the Monash University Collection; Museum of Contemporary Art; Heide Museum of Modern Art and National Gallery of Victoria as well as private and corporate collections.
CO-OPTED MEMBER (representing the National Gallery of Victoria)
David Hurlston
Curator, Australian Art
National Gallery of Victoria
David Hurlston has worked for the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) since 1993 and is currently employed as Curator, Australian Art. He has previously been employed by the NGV as Curator, Australian art exhibitions (2002-2007), Program Coordinator (1999-2002) and Access Gallery Curator (1993-1999). In 1985 Hurlston completed a Bachelor of Art in Fine Art at RMIT, majoring in ceramic sculpture, and in 1991 undertook post-graduate study in art curatorship at the University of Melbourne. He has curated a number of exhibitions for the NGV including, Yikwani: Contemporary Tiwi ceramics (2002-2003), Deborah Halpern: Angel (2006), Geoffrey Bartlett (2007) and Preserving the past, enriching the future: Hugh Williamson's legacy (2008). He is currently developing a survey exhibition of the work of Ron Mueck, which will open at NGV International in 2010. Hurlston is Chair of the City of Maribyrnong's Art Advisory Committee and a member of Arts Project Australia's Exhibitions Committee.
