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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
Assurance and Advisory Business Services, Ernst & Young
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
Corporate Lawyer, Australian Children's Television Foundation
Alex Farrar is a Corporate Lawyer with the Australian Children's Television Foundation, a national not-for-profit children's media production and policy hub. Farrar's practice extends from general corporate and intellectual property law to a broader media policy role. Because the children's production industry is responding to kids' ever-increasing technology-savvy in new and innovative ways, Farrar is currently ramping-up her digital media expertise via a Masters in Communications Law at Melbourne University. She is the author of a number of articles about transformative uses of traditional copyright materials for use in classroom settings, and has taken a particular interest in the debate surrounding Australian content, particularly as it applies to subscription and digital television.
Ordinary Members
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 highly regarded and prolific curator, writer and editor. She studied Art History at the University of Reading and the Courtald Institute, the University of London, before being appointed Assistant Director of Monash University Gallery in Melbourne. In recent years she has served as Deputy Director and Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, and inaugural Director of the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Stanhope is Chair of unProjects, the publisher of un Magazine and Chair of Platform Artists Group Inc. in Melbourne.
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.
Professor Paul Clarkson
Adjunct Professor, RMIT
Paul Clarkson was Director of the Victorian Ministry of the Arts (later Arts Victoria) for 15 years from 1980. During that time he was closely involved with many new initiatives in the cultural life of Victoria, including the construction and operation of the Victorian Arts Centre, the development of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and development of the regional gallery and performing arts centre networks. Clarkson has a Bachelor of Commerce. He has held a number of arts board appointments and is currently Chairman of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, the City of Port Phillip Arts Advisory Committee, and a Director of the John Truscott Design Foundation. He has been an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University since 1996.
Emily Floyd
Artist
Emily Floyd is a Melbourne-based artist who looks for new ways to tell old stories; different angles from which to view the past and alternative positions from which to think about our present. Her playful and irreverent sculptures push ideas centre stage. Floyd's recent solo exhibitions include Temple of The Female Eunuch (Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2008) and The Outsider (Curtin University, Perth, 2006). In 2008 she was commissioned to produce a large scale sculpture for the Eastlink Freeway titled Public Art Strategy. Major group exhibitions include MCA Collection: New acquisitions in context (Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005) and Cycle Tracks Will Abound Utopia (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2003). Floyd is represented in public and private collections both throughout Australia and internationally including: Simmons and Simmons, London; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Bendigo Art Gallery; Monash University Collection; and The Michael Buxton Contemporary Australian Art Collection.
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.
