| Case Study presenter profiles |
 | Maisy Stapleton, CEO Museums & Galleries NSW, Collaborations and Partnerships case study session | | John Waldron, Cultural Heritage and Collections Manager, Sunshine Coast Regional Council, Collections, Education and Access case study session | | Susi Muddiman, Director, Tweed River Art Gallery, Collections, Education and Access case study session | | Georgia Cribb, Director, NETS Victoria and Jodi Ferrari, Exhibition Development Coordinator Museum & Gallery Services Queensland Exhibition Practice case study session | | John Mongard, Principal, John Mongard Landscape Architects, Exhibition Practice case study session | | David Cross, Associate Professor, Director of Research, School of Fine Arts, Massey University, presenter Exhibition Practice case study session | | Susan Abasa, Programme Co-ordinator, Museum and Heritage Studies, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Collections, Education and Access case study session | | Rhonda Paku, Acting General Manager, Manager Iwi Development, National Services Te Paerangi, Te Papa Tongarewa, presenter Collaborations/Partnerships plenary session | | Mandana Mapar, Exhibitions Officer, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, presenter Exhibition Practice case study session |
| Maisy Stapleton, CEO Museums & Galleries NSW, Collaborations and Partnerships case study session | |
Maisy Stapleton is the inaugural CEO of Museums & Galleries NSW, a peak agency, established in 1999 by the NSW Government, to assist the work of museums and galleries throughout NSW, Australia.
The organisation has a broad strategic role to develop, support and promote regional, community and public museums and galleries in this state, through the provision of services and support programs, including grants.
Maisy has spent over 25 years working in Australian cultural and heritage organisations.
Prior to her role in Museums & Galleries NSW, Maisy was the head of Regional Arts NSW, an organisation focussed on the development and promotion of the arts in regional and rural areas of the state of NSW. She has also held positions as Co-ordinator of Business, Tourism and International Relations – City of Sydney; Head of Marketing and Corporate Affairs – National Trust of Australia (NSW); Commissioner – James Cook Pavilion, Expo 88 – Treasures from the Greenwich Maritime Museum, UK; Senior Program Officer – Australian Bicentennial Authority and Curator, Elizabeth Bay House, Historic Houses Trust Sydney – her first position in the cultural industry. She has also run a project management consultancy that included touring exhibitions, managing Arts Week in NSW and developing publications.
Maisy has sat on arts and cultural advisory boards and committees, including the NSW Premier’s Arts Advisory Council. She is currently a Director on the Board of the National Trust of NSW.
Maisy trained initially as an architect. She has maintained her interest in architecture through writing and publications.
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| John Waldron, Cultural Heritage and Collections Manager, Sunshine Coast Regional Council, Collections, Education and Access case study session |  |
John has 30 years experience as an artist, art educator, curator, consultant and manager. For the past nineteen years he has lead the development and managed innovative creative and heritage arts facilities in regional NSW and Queensland.
John is currently employed for the Sunshine Coast Regional Council as Cultural Heritage & Collections Manager. This requires managing a team of curators working across Noosa and Caloundra Regional Galleries; heritage sites and facilities such as Bankfoot House; a new art & ecology centre and a range of arts spaces and collections.
John has curated many social history and visual art exhibition some of which have toured nationally and presented at regional, state and national venues. He is currently developing a major touring exhibition that celebrates the life and art of Lawrence Daws. The Promised Land, The art of Lawrence Daws features work 50 paintings, sketch books and letters from over six decades drawn from the national, state, regional and private collection.
Since arriving on the Sunshine Coast in 2004 John has worked closely with the Ken Hinds Cultural Collection. This large collection of Australian art, pottery, toys, artifacts and film is held locally with a vision for public / private partnership to enable public access.
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| Susi Muddiman, Director, Tweed River Art Gallery, Collections, Education and Access case study session | |
Susi Muddiman commenced her role as Director of the Tweed River Art Gallery in April 2007. She relocated to the north coast following four years in the Riverina as Director of the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.
Susi completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland and went on to gain a Diploma in Australian Studies, specialising in Australian Art. During her studies she was an Acting Curator at the Queensland Museum. She then took the position of Arts Curator at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba before returning to Brisbane to work with the art collection at Queensland University of Technology.
In 1997 Susi became the Director of the Grafton Regional Gallery where she enjoyed extending the Gallery’s built environment and exhibition programs for over five years. Susi also worked on building the reputation of Grafton’s Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award. The move to Wagga Wagga saw Susi manage the Gallery’s prestigious National Art Glass Collection and the City’s outstanding collection of artists’ prints. Her role as Director of each of the galleries has been responsible for the management of the facilities, co-operating with the gallery’s support groups such as the Friends and the Foundation, arranging sponsorships and overseeing management of the Collections. She was elected as President of the Regional Galleries Association of NSW for several years, and is currently a member of the national Committee of the Print Council of Australian Inc. Susi has written numerous articles on strengthening public collections and contributed to many exhibition catalogues.
Raised in Lismore in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, the move to the stunning architectural award-winning Tweed River Art Gallery has seen her return to the area she grew up in.
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| Georgia Cribb, Director, NETS Victoria and Jodi Ferrari, Exhibition Development Coordinator Museum & Gallery Services Queensland Exhibition Practice case study session | |
Jodi Ferrari has been Exhibition Development Coordinator for Museum and Gallery Services Queensland, the Queensland agent for National Exhibition Touring Support (NETS) Australia, since March 2007. She has a background in education and public programs in regional galleries, and brings this experience and knowledge to the development of support material for travelling exhibitions in her current role. Recent major projects include The GEO Project, a web resource for a suite of M&GSQ's travelling exhibitions, and the education kit for Twelve Degrees of Latitude.
Jodi completed a Bachelor of Art (double major in Art History) at University of Queensland and graduated from University of Technology, Sydney, with a Master of Education (Visual Arts) in 2000.
Georgia Cribb has been Director of NETS Victoria, the peak body for touring exhibitions of contemporary art, craft and design in Victoria, since July 2005. Georgia’s specialty in contemporary art and design is reflected in her diverse background in curating, developing and touring exhibitions with regional and corporate collections. She has also undertaken numerous independent curatorial projects since 1999. Georgia graduated in 1998 from the University of Melbourne with a postgraduate degree in art curatorship. Prior to this she obtained an honours degree in fine art (painting) from RMIT University. In 2006 Georgia was also the recipient of an Australia Council Skills and Development (Emerging) grant where she undertook an internship with Artangel in the UK.
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| John Mongard, Principal, John Mongard Landscape Architects, Exhibition Practice case study session | |
John specialises in planning and implementing complex public space projects which highlight local culture and broad community interactions. He has orchestrated teams of designers, builders and artists across towns throughout Australia, sometimes project managing hundreds of creative participants in his community building projects.
John Mongard Landscape Architects have focused on rural and regional areas of Australia over the last twenty years, with early work in the 1990’s rebuilding Bundaberg and Cleveland’s main streets, leading to collaborative public design and art projects in the west, such as Quilpie; in the north, such as in Atherton and Innisfail; and in remote areas, such as the Torres Strait. The practice is informed by a cultural planning paradigm. Each public realm is designed on site with local residents, artists, and craftspeople. A collaborative design process informs each step from visioning through to construction. John Mongard is an Arts Queensland art+place Panel Member and lectures regularly on placemaking and the role of the arts in the public realm.
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| David Cross, Associate Professor, Director of Research, School of Fine Arts, Massey University, presenter Exhibition Practice case study session | |
David Cross is an artist, writer and curator based in Wellington. He has exhibited at respected venues in New Zealand and Australia including Perspecta 99 in Sydney and ACCA in Melbourne and performed in international live art festivals in Poland and Croatia. His writing has been published in numerous journals and magazines including Art and Text, World Art, AAANZ journal and Photofile. He is Associate Professor in Fine Arts at Massey University where he directs the Litmus Research Initiative and recently, with Claire Doherty, co-directed the One Day Sculpture series of 20 temporary commissions by national and International artists across New Zealand.
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| Susan Abasa, Programme Co-ordinator, Museum and Heritage Studies, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Collections, Education and Access case study session | |
Susan’s career encompasses almost 10 years at the Queensland Art Gallery as Head of Exhibitions and then Head of Education and Regional Services (1979-1988); Executive Officer of the Art Museums Association of Australia, Melbourne (1988-1994). Currently she is Programme Co-ordinator of the Museum and Heritage Studies Programme at Massey University, New Zealand. The Programme is the oldest in New Zealand and celebrates its 20th anniversary of service to the museum profession this year. The presentation derives from Susan’s doctoral research on innovation in art museum education in New Zealand.
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| Rhonda Paku, Acting General Manager, Manager Iwi Development, National Services Te Paerangi, Te Papa Tongarewa, presenter Collaborations/Partnerships plenary session | |
Rhonda is of Ngäti Kahungunu, Ngäti Ruapani, and Ngai Tuhoe descent and is the Manager Iwi Development for National Services Te Paerangi, a team at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa responsible for providing services and support to museums and iwi throughout Aotearoa, New Zealand. In her role, Rhonda works closely with tribal organisations to ensure that they receive the appropriate advice, support and resources to care for their treasures, to tell their stories and to work collaboratively with museums and galleries where the opportunity to arises. Rhonda began her career in museums almost 20 years ago in the Dominion Museum, while studying at Victoria University, Wellington. After graduating with honours in Maori and Anthropology, she held positions in education, and worked in various capacities in the public and private sectors before returning to work in the museum world in 2005.
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| Mandana Mapar, Exhibitions Officer, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, presenter Exhibition Practice case study session | |
Mandana Mapar has been engaged in the arts sector as an artist, administrator and curator for over eight years. Upon completion of a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Fine Art at Queensland College of Art Griffith University, Mandana focused on her photomedia arts practice whilst working at a number of arts organisations. In 2003 she was the recipient of a Youth Arts Queensland Mentorship which culminated in curating the contemporary artists component of All that Glitters… contemporary visions of the Gold Coast. In 2006 she curated ey! Iran Contemporary Iranian Photography. The exhibition is currently on tour in New Zealand and has been viewed by extensive audiences in Australia and New Zealand. Mandana has worked at Gold Coast City Art Gallery since 2004, most recently curating the new media dedicated DarkRoom space’s annual exhibition program.
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