| Plenary Session Presenter Profiles |
 | Guy Abrahams, Director, Art+ Environment | | Richard Baberowski, Vantage Arts | | Sarah Barns, Manager Strategic Initiatives - Creative Industries Innovation Centre, University of Technology, Sydney | | Jo Besley, Senior Curator Social History, Queensland Museum, and Churchill Fellow 2009 | | Adriane Boag, Youth and Community Programs l Education, National Gallery of Australia | | Steve Chaddock, Timeline Heritage Consultants and Norman Richards, Building Design & Interiors | | Dr Adele Chynoweth, Curator (ATSIP Team), National Museum of Australia | | Richard Crampton, Technical Director - Mechanical, Steensen Varming and Emrah Baki Ulas, Associate Lighting Designer, Steensen Varming | | Liza Dale-Hallett, Senior Curator, Sustainable Futures, Museum Victoria | | Lydia Egunnike, Senior Conservator, Conservation Unit - Collection Preservation, State Library of Queensland | | Fiona Foley, Artist, Urban Art Projects / Mackay Bluewater Quay | | Richard Gagnier, Head of Conservation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada | | mervin Jarman, Community art activist and a founding member of the UK’s Mongrel Collective | | Murray Massey and Dianne Smith, Cardwell Historical Society | | Rory McLeod, Director Client Services and Collections, State Library of Queensland | | Grant Parker, Lighting Sales Consultant, Sylvania Lighting Australasia | | Deborah Tranter, Director Cobb+Co Museum and Regional Services, Queensland Museum | | Craig Walsh, Artist | | Graeme Were, Lecturer in Museum Studies, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland | | Liz Wild, Conservator, Sculpture Conservation Department, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art |
| Guy Abrahams, Director, Art+ Environment |  |
Arts and Climate: a catalyst for change?
Our Carbon Footprint Plenary Session
Guy Abrahams was Director of Christine Abrahams Gallery in Melbourne for 22 years. He has been a Board member of the Melbourne Art Fair and the National Gallery of Victoria Art Foundation, and National President of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association. He is currently on the Board of the Australian Tapestry Workshop and the City of Melbourne's Art and Heritage Panel.
Guy holds Law and Arts degrees, as well as a recently completed Master of Environment. In 2009 he was trained by former US Vice President Al Gore to give presentations on climate change. Guy is a Co-Founder of the not for profit organisation CLIMARTE: Arts for a Safe Climate, and he now speaks regularly on the role of the arts sector in the climate debate.
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| Richard Baberowski, Vantage Arts | |
Planning for the unexpectedly special
Built it... reconceptualising museum and gallery spaces Plenary Session
Richard has worked with or in local government for over 17 years. His responsibilities as a senior bureaucrat included the development of major arts infrastructure and the 'Cultural Heart' strategy.
As an arts consultant he has worked across Queensland including: Mitchell, Cardwell, Rockhampton, Mackay, Noosa and Redlands.
He left Council last January to go back into consultancy, develop primitive art exhibitions and campaign in the next local council elections.
Richard is currently:
• A University of the Sunshine Coast faculty advisory committee member;
• A Regional Galleries Association of Queensland board member; and
• A Director and Chairman of Museum and Gallery Services Queensland.
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| Sarah Barns, Manager Strategic Initiatives - Creative Industries Innovation Centre, University of Technology, Sydney | |
Intangible presences: Re-locating archives for heritage interpretation using mobile media
Beyond the Walls... new media, public art and heritage interpretation Plenary Session
Dr. Sarah Barns is a writer, researcher and producer based at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her work as an historical geographer uses mobile media to engage audio-visual archival materials for site-specific historical interpretation.
In 2008 Sarah developed the ABC’s Sydney Sidetracks platform (http://abc.net.au/sidetracks), which presents extensive historical documentation relating to over 50 sites of interest around the central Sydney CBD, enabling users to explore documentary recordings of the city via mobile phone. As part of this project, she produced a series of site-specific sound pieces featuring historical recordings of the city from as far back as 1945. The site was awarded Best Multi-Platform Content at the ABC’s 2009 Digital Media Awards, and has been internationally recognized for its innovative uses of new technology to promote digital storytelling around archival documentation. She continues to work on digital cultural geography projects with the Powerhouse Museum, the Historic Houses Trust and the ABC.
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| Jo Besley, Senior Curator Social History, Queensland Museum, and Churchill Fellow 2009 | |
Closure? Or opening? Museums as ‘crucibles’ for identity, healing and recovery
Agents of Social Change Plenary Session
Educated in architecture at the University of Queensland, Jo Besley is now Senior Curator at the Queensland Museum (QM), with responsibility for planning and implementing the museum’s program of social history exhibitions and managing social history collections. Prior to joining QM in 2011, Jo was Senior Curator at Museum of Brisbane and was responsible for exhibitions such as Silky Oak, Remembering Goodna: stories from a Queensland mental hospital and Taking to the Streets: two decades that changed Brisbane 1965-1985. In 2009, she was the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship, which explored the role that museums have in assisting communities and individuals to recover from traumatic events and experiences.
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| Adriane Boag, Youth and Community Programs l Education, National Gallery of Australia | |
Art and Alzheimer's Outreach Program case study
Agents of Social Change Plenary Session
Adriane Boag is an art educator at the National Gallery of Australia with responsibility for developing and coordinating access programs for youth and community groups. Adriane has a Visual Arts degree with Honours in Painting and Sculpture from Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney Australia. Adriane has over twenty years teaching experience in tertiary and museum visual art education. Adriane coordinates regular tours for a wide variety of specialised audiences including people living with dementia and is the facilitator of the Art and Alzheimer’s’ Program at the National Gallery of Australia. In 2009 support from the Department of Health & Ageing made possible the development and delivery of the Art and Alzheimer’s Outreach Project. The Outreach Project’s aims and objectives support sustainable regionally specific programs in galleries for people living with Dementia. A two day training workshop for arts and health professionals has been developed from the experience gained within the current Art and Alzheimer’s program at the National Gallery.
Additional Special access programs are an established feature of Education and Public programs planning and programming. Consultation with a variety of community organisations has resulted in partnerships with Alzheimer’s Australia, residential care facilities, ArtsAbility ACT, Carers ACT and the Vision Section of the ACT Department of Education. A focus of her Gallery work with youth is the National Gallery of Australia and National Australia Bank Summer Art Scholarship, an annual week long art immersion program for sixteen year 11 students selected from each state and territory of Australia.
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| Steve Chaddock, Timeline Heritage Consultants and Norman Richards, Building Design & Interiors | |
Pilot project: A sustainable design refit for Artspace Mackay
Our Carbon Footprint Plenary Session
Steve Chaddock
Steve started his career as an Archaeologist in the UK, so it was a natural progression to complete his Masters in Museum Studies at UCL - going on to work in the European heritage sector for 11 years.
In 2005, Steve and his family immigrated to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland where he learnt first hand about heritage issues in Australia as Heritage Project Officer for Caloundra and then Sunshine Coast Regional Council. He established independent Timeline Heritage Consultants in 2006 - which aims to deliver heritage consultancy services to Australian clients with a clear focus on interpretation. He continues to support the wider Museums and Galleries community through his role as Reviewer in the Museum & Gallery Services Queensland Standards Program.
Throughout his practice, Steve has maintained an interest in green agendas such as energy efficiency and waste minimisation, and in 2011 he was awarded a postgraduate degree in Sustainable Enterprise from Griffith Business School.
Norman Richards
Norman Richards designs buildings and interiors remarkable for their elegant form, comfort and low environmental impact.
He received a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies from Waterloo University in Ontario, Canada and opened his own design/build practice in Toronto in 1987.
In 1999 he moved to London where he worked for clients such as the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Habitat and Bentley Motors.
In 2004 he moved to Maleny and established Norman Richards building design + interiors.
Norman Richards’ work was recognised at last years National Design Awards, winning “Best Residence (up to 250 sqm)” in Australia.
Norman adds the National Award to a collection of State and Regional awards as well as many prestigious international design awards including the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Medal and the City of Toronto Urban Design Award.
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| Dr Adele Chynoweth, Curator (ATSIP Team), National Museum of Australia | |
Developing the exhibition, 'Inside: Life in Children's Homes'
Agents of Social Change Plenary Session
Adele Chynoweth studied theatre direction at the Flinders University Drama Centre in South Australia. In 2002, she was also awarded a PhD for her research in contemporary Australian feminist drama. Her performance research, which emphasises the politics of representation, has been published in various international academic journals. In 2001, Adele was employed as the researcher and writer for the Memory Museum, a site specific multi-media installation created for the Centenary of Australian Federation Celebrations. Adele is currently a Visiting Fellow within the School of Cultural Inquiry at the Australian National University and is also Curator for the pending exhibition Inside: Life in Children’s Homes at the National Museum of Australia.
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| Richard Crampton, Technical Director - Mechanical, Steensen Varming and Emrah Baki Ulas, Associate Lighting Designer, Steensen Varming | |
Key Findings of Technical Industry Report - Gallery and Museum Lighting and Air Conditioning
Our Carbon Footprint Plenary Session
Richard Crampton
Richard's role as a Technical Director requires him to lead a team of project engineers, designing systems and plant from conception to tender stage and he has substantial experience in site-based engineering during the construction phase of a project.
Richard has a strong professional interest in close-control air-conditioning work, which began during an in-industry year at the National Physics Laboratory in the UK during his university course. He now has substantial experience in this field, which is particularly important on many heritage projects that have sensitive temperature and humidity requirements.
Richard has been a member of Steensen Varming since 2002. His expertise and experience in mechanical building services includes the Sydney Opera House; National Gallery of Australia, New Aboriginal Memorial Galleries and Art Services Areas; National Gallery of Australia, Priority upgrade works; and The Mint, Historic Houses Trust of NSW Heritage Site.
Emrah Baki Ulas
Emrah is a "light" enthusiast. His career with "light" began when working for the International Instanbul Biennial, and numerous other international events organised by "Instanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts", where he worked during his university years. Following his undergraduate degree in Bogazici University Istanbul/Turkey, he studied Master's degree in Architectural Lighting Design at the University of Wismar/Germany.
He has taken part in various international lighting events, given seminars in lighting conferences and events in Australia, Germany, UK, Canada and Italy. His wide ranging work includes prestigious architectural lighting projects as well as research papers on lighting, musical compositions, sound and light installations, collaboration on short films and luminaire design.
Emrah has been a member of Steensen Varming since 2006. His expertise and experience in lighting design includes the Sydney Opera House; Surry Hills Library and Community Centre; and the Australian Museum Research and Collections Building.
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| Liza Dale-Hallett, Senior Curator, Sustainable Futures, Museum Victoria | |
Making Meaning from Ashes - Developing the Victorian Bushfires Collection
Dealing with Disasters Plenary Session
Liza Dale-Hallett has worked as a history curator in Museum Victoria since 1987. Liza is responsible for the development of the Victorian Bushfires Collection, which emerged following the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. This project has involved the collection of audio and video interviews, objects and images that document the diversity of experiences and impacts of bushfire across Victoria.
Liza is committed to active community participation in creating and interpreting their own stories and has received a number of important industry awards for her work in community engagement and multimedia.
Other areas of curatorial research include: contemporary domestic water use in Melbourne, the role and impact of women in agriculture, the history of the agricultural enterprise of H.V. McKay, and the impact of climate change on the lifestyle, environments and future of communities in Victoria. As Chairperson of Museum Victoria’s Climate Change Committee, Liza has been involved in research relating to carbon reduction strategies, corporate bicycle fleets and behavioural change.
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| Lydia Egunnike, Senior Conservator, Conservation Unit - Collection Preservation, State Library of Queensland | |
A conservator's response to the South-East Queensland Flood
Dealing with Disasters Plenary Session
Lydia is Senior Conservator at the State Library of Queensland. She trained in paper and photographic conservation at Camberwell College of Arts, London and holds a Masters of Applied Science in Cultural Conservation from the University of Canberra. She completed a two year research fellowship in photographic conservation at the Image Permanence Institute (RIT) and George Eastman House, USA. Throughout her career, Lydia has been actively involved in disaster planning and training and has practical experience in a diverse range of disasters.
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| Fiona Foley, Artist, Urban Art Projects / Mackay Bluewater Quay | |
Public Art Laced with Memory
Agents of Social Change Plenary Session
Over the last 20 years, Foley's work has addressed the history of race relations in Australia since colonial times, often utilising recent research into previously untold histories.
Her work utilises various media, such as printmaking (etching), painting, photography and sculpture. She has received a number of major public art commissions, including Black Opium (2006) for the State Library of Queensland (referencing Queensland's 'Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897'), Witnessing to Silence for the Brisbane Magistrates Court in 2004, The Lie of the Land for the Melbourne Museum in 1997, and The Edge of Trees with Janet Laurence for the Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Museum of Sydney in 1994.
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| Richard Gagnier, Head of Conservation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada | |
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The concept of integrity as the guiding framework to the preservation of time-based media art and installation
Changing Nature of Collections Plenary Session
Richard Gagnier has been the Head of Conservation at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since Fall 2007. He graduated from l’Université de Montréal with a B.Sc.(Honour) in chemistry, and a minor in Art History with a strong component on modern and contemporary art, theory and discourse. He completed the course requirements of the master program in art conservation (MAC) research stream of Queen university, Kingston, Ontario. He joined the team of the Restoration and Conservation Laboratory at the National Gallery of Canada in 1984 where he successively developed expertise as assistant-conservator and conservator of contemporary art until 2007. His practise encompasses contemporary art media such as painting, sculpture, installation, as well as time-based media. He has been a member, since 2005, of a research group on the re-exhibition of contemporary art lead by Francine Couture (art history, UQAM, Montreal). As part of the DOCAM research project, he led the activities of the sub-committee Case studies – Conservation for the five years tenure of this research.
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| mervin Jarman, Community art activist and a founding member of the UK’s Mongrel Collective | |
Repatriating Technology
Beyond the Walls... new media, public art and heritage interpretation Plenary Session
mervin is a community art activist, and a founding member of the UK’s Mongrel Collective. He is a particular kind of mongrel – a street art-activist emerging in new media technology. In 2003 mervin initiated The Container Project, a community media lab in a 40ft shipping container in rural Jamaica. In 2008, The Container Project won the prestigious Stockholm Challenge Award. One of mervin’s latest projects is the iStreet Lab, a portable multimedia production studio in a 240-litre wheelie bin. The iStreet Lab is designed to take technology into the street in a way that has not been done before.
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| Murray Massey and Dianne Smith, Cardwell Historical Society | |
Embracing Yasi
Dealing with Disasters
Murray Massey
A journalist for 40 years, Murray wrote on politics, business and finance for media outlets including the ABC, Australian Financial Review, BRW magazine and Gold Coast Bulletin. Freelance writing, court reporting and working as a ministerial press secretary are part of his experience.
In retirement he has been documenting history for the Cardwell and District Historical Society, including its recent publication The Calophyllum Shore - A Cardwell Memoir, and building the Society’s website www.cardwellhistory.com.au. Murray’s 99-year-old family home, a hallmark of his Cardwell ancestry dating from the 1860s, was ravaged by Cyclone Yasi.
Dianne Smith
Dianne’s experience is principally in administration, in roles as varied as business owner-operator of a retail plumbing outlet, owner-operator of a holiday park, and 15 years experience in quality and compliance in aged care.
Dianne has been an advocate, administrator and worker for small communities and volunteer organisations for more than 25 years, including as executive member of the Cardwell and District Historical Society (CDHS) for four years. With a passion for history and the retention of a community’s historic memory, Dianne uses her administrative talents to support the CDHS in its ongoing endeavors to record Cardwell district history.
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| Rory McLeod, Director Client Services and Collections, State Library of Queensland | |
The Implementation of a Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Plan: What we Learned
Dealing with Disasters Plenary Session
Rory McLeod is the Director, Client Services and Collections at the State Library of Queensland (SLQ). Client Services and Collections is the largest part of SLQ, covering some 200 people. The directorate is responsible for all Library Services, Learning and Participation Programs, Indigenous Research, Building Development and Design, all library Collections and The Edge. Rory has previously held senior post in digital asset management, long-term information management, change management and general business for both the State Library of NSW and the British Library in London where he worked for nine years. Rory also ran his own consultancy in the UK specializing in the long-term information challenges of the nuclear industry.
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| Grant Parker, Lighting Sales Consultant, Sylvania Lighting Australasia | |
Lighting solutions - Presentation/practical demonstration/trade show
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| Deborah Tranter, Director Cobb+Co Museum and Regional Services, Queensland Museum | |
Museums and Communities: Changing Dynamics: An analysis of the Cobb+Co Museum in Toowoomba
Build it... reconceptualising museum and gallery spaces Plenary Session
Deborah Tranter is the Director of the Cobb+Co Museum in Toowoomba, which opened its stage three development – the National Carriage Factory (NCF) in September 2010.
In addition, Deborah holds the position of Director Queensland Museum Regional Services which is responsible for delivery of museum services across Queensland.
She is the author of a number of publications on Cobb & Co. Coaching Company, and using museums as places for learning. As part of her PhD thesis she completed a major study to ascertain the public value of the Queensland Museum.
In 2000, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her contribution to cultural heritage and cultural tourism in regional Queensland.
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| Craig Walsh, Artist | |
Digital Odyssey
Beyond the Walls... new media, public art and heritage interpretation Plenary Session
Craig Walsh was born in Orange in 1966, and is currently touring regional Australia on the Digital Odyssey project. He is primarily interested in hybrid and site-specific projects and the exploration of alternative contexts for contemporary art. He often utilizes projection in response to existing environments and landscapes. He has worked across a range of art forms including theatre, architecture, public works, gallery exhibitions, natural environments and festivals.
His work has been shown in a number of national and international exhibitions, including the Jakarta Biennale XIII, Indonesia; Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Japan; 01SJ Biennal San Jose, California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Koganecho Bazaar, Japan and DRIFT 08, London. He is currently Adjunct Professor at Griffith University.
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| Graeme Were, Lecturer in Museum Studies, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland | |
Extreme collecting: archival legacies to collecting futures
Changing Nature of Collections Plenary Session
Graeme Were has a PhD in Anthropology and is the Convenor of the Museum Studies program at the University of Queensland. His research interests include ethnographic collections and university museums; digital heritage and source communities; and the anthropology of design. He has a regional specialisation in the Pacific and has published widely in this area, particularly in relation to material culture. He is the author of Lines that Connect: Rethinking Pattern and Mind in the Pacific (University of Hawaii Press, 2010) and the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Extreme Collecting (Berghahn Books).
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| Liz Wild, Conservator, Sculpture Conservation Department, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art | |
Illustrated Case study QAG|GOMA’s Contemporary Art Collection
Changing Nature of Collections Plenary Session
Liz Wild, BArts, University of Queensland (1992). BAppSci, Conservation of Cultural Material, University of Canberra (1995). Employment history includes: Conservator, Museum Victoria; fellow in Objects Conservation, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.; Conservator, National Gallery of Australia. Liz is presently employed as Acting Head of Conservation at the Queensland Art Gallery │Gallery of Modern Art with special interest in the conservation of sculpture including contemporary installations, Indigenous Australian art, metal sculptures and outdoor sculpture.
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