After training initially as an artist I undertook post-graduate study in arts administration and moved into various curatorial, arts funding, administration and management roles in both the public and private sectors.  Prior to establishing Global Art Projects, I previously worked for the Australian War Memorial, the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Exhibitions Touring Agency and the City of Melbourne.

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I consult to a range of government authorities on public art including commissioning of temporary and permanent artworks. I have been a Consultant Curator to the Metro Tunnel Creative Program since 2018, identifying creative opportunities and temporary art activation possibilities associated with this major construction project for Melbourne. I am currently working as a consultant curator on three new permanent art projects associated with Level Crossing Removal Program.

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I recently delivered eight permanent art installations along the 134km of the Great Victorian Rail Trail on Taungurung Country in regional Victoria (with Murrindindi, Mansfield and Mitchell shires), as well as an integrated permanent public art for Darebin Council's Narrandjeri Stadium, and a major creative design treatment for Rail Projects Victoria's Metro Tunnel portal in Kensington.  It is satisfying working with contemporary artists and designers to find creative solutions to enhance our urban and regional environments. 

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Along with my business partner Donald, I work as a Consultant Curator to Sofitel hotel's in Australia curating exhibitions and artist residencies.

 

One of the most rewarding projects I previously worked on was Australia's official participation in the Venice Biennale of Art, which I managed for 10 years, working with amazing artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Bill Henson and Howard Arkley, and many excellent curators.  I also enjoyed the challenge of working as a Creative Producer for Festival Melbourne2006, (the cultural program for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games), developing a complex and exciting program of exhibitions with artists from throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Being involved in arts industry committees is a great way to draw on some of my experience to give back to the arts community.  It also provides me the opportunity to see a broad cross section of art and design practice from emerging and established contemporary creative practitioners.  I have been fortunate to sit on numerous grant and art project assessment panels looking at hundreds of exhibition and arts project proposals, and also providing strategic advice on exhibition touring, public and urban art projects, acquisitions and collections. For many years I sat on the City of Melbourne's Arts and Heritage Collection Panel and the Contemporary Art Acquisition Sub-Committee (2005-2018).  I was previously Chair of the City of Melbourne's Contemporary Art Acquisitions Panel, a member of the City's Public Art Advisory Committee and the Laneways Commissions panel and I also sat on the Arts Victoria Touring Victoria Committee for a number of years.