Applications for funding under the The Regional Arts Fund for 2011 will be assessed by a panel of eight people, including representatives from diverse target groups and regions, with experience in a range of artforms. They are in alphabetical order:
(* New Panel members)
Arts NSW nominee
Amelia is currently Contracts Officer at Arts NSW, working across a range of areas including Visual Arts, Museums, Major Festivals, Literature and New Media. As part of the role, she is responsible for the NSW Governments’ International artists exchange program, the screen audience development program and the Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship. Prior to her current role, Amelia oversaw the Arts NSW arts education strategy, ConnectEd Arts, delivering arts education programs across regional NSW.
Previously Amelia has worked at the NSW Film and Television Office, as the New Media Officer, facilitating traineeships in the creative industries and as the Training Manager of Metro Screen, the film and television resource centre.
Amelia currently sits on a number of panels and committees including ArtStart, Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group (SAMAG) and the Creative Education Management Working Party.
Museums and Galleries NSW nominee/Indigenous representative
Brad Franks made his first serious attempt at creating an art work in 1970 after seeing reproductions of the American abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock’s work. Since that time he has attended art school majoring in photography, played the drums in post punk band The Insect, held seven solo art shows in Sydney, contributed to over thirty five group shows and entered in over forty five art competitions, winning a couple of gongs along the way. His photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, Australian Photography, Photo-Graphy, The New Music, Inner City Sound and The Real Thing and on numerous record covers as well as a few people’s walls.
After working at the Mitchell Library, the Rex Irwin Gallery and the Nicholson Street Gallery in Sydney, Brad moved to the Upper Hunter in 1984 and worked with disadvantaged people including teaching art and illustrating and editing a comic book on drug awareness issues. By the 1990’s he was involved with the Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery as a volunteer and regular contributor to group shows and since 2003 has been employed at what is now the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre currently as the Arts Centre Manager.
Brad has exhibited work in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video and installations. His most recent work was exhibited in the 2009 Outback Art Prize exhibition at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery and he is currently developing a travelling show/book with two other artists based on their photographs of the inner Sydney punk/art scene of the late 1970’s.
Brad identifies himself as an Australian Aboriginal person of the Dharug language group of western Sydney in New South Wales. His family comes from the Pitt Town area on the Hawkesbury River near Windsor, possibly of the Cattai Clan, the traditional owners of that place.
CHAIR and RANSW Board of Directors’ nominee
Bernadette is a graduate of the Ballarat Academy of Performing Arts (BAPA) production course. Upon graduating, she took on the position of Project/Education Officer at Geelong Performing Arts Centre (1997 – 2001) and Technical Production Manager for the Victorian Department of Education State School Spectacular in 2001. She has worked as Production/Stage Manager for festivals and events and for many Melbourne based companies. She has also provided lighting designs for independent producers and provided technical support for touring companies and regional venues across the state.
Bernadette moved to Albury/Wodonga in 2002 to take on the position of Production Manager of HotHouse Theatre and, in 2005, was appointed General Manager. She is currently a board member for Regional Arts NSW and Murray Arts. Bernadette also holds the position of Deputy Chair of the Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres Association and is a representative of the Touring Consultative Committee for Regional Arts Victoria.
Bernadette has served two years as Chairperson on the RAF State Assessment Panel.
Australian Theatre for Young People nominee
Suzanne is the Creative Producer of Outback Theatre for Young People working in their head office in Deniliquin. Originally from Adelaide, Suzanne has worked and studied in Townsville, the USA and Sydney. She holds a Bachelor of Theatre from James Cook University, a Bachelor of Science in Theatre from Texas Woman’s University and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre (Acting) from the University of Iowa.
As a playwright Suzanne has had short plays performed at the Victorian Arts Centre, the Seymour Centre, the New Theatre, Newtown Theatre and Star of the Sea Theatre, and her longer one-act play, Fire Safety, was included in the Brand Spanking New Festival at the New Theatre in 2008. In the same year Suzanne’s first full-length play, War Poems, set in the aftermath of the First World War and the Gallipoli campaign, was short-listed for Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White Playwright’s Award.
Suzanne spent four years on the board of Factory Space Theatre and has produced shows for New Mercury Theatre, Newtown Theatre and theatre-in-education company, Muse Productions. In 2008 she worked as Director of the Children’s Program for Newtown Theatre and Short+Sweet. In 2009 she was appointed Creative Producer at Outback Theatre for Young People. As an actor she has been seen on stages all over Sydney as well as in short film and television.
This is Suzanne’s second year on the RAF State Assessment Panel.
Community Cultural Development representative
Martha Jabour is a Sydney-based artist and cultural consultant. Having worked extensively in Australia and overseas in the field of cultural development, Martha possesses considerable experience in the process and practice of community cultural planning as demonstrated during her time as the key project instigator and manager for the 'Living Streets' place making project in Liverpool.
As well as being a skilled planner and strategist, Martha has a strong background in the visual and performing arts. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Art Education and a Masters in Fine Art from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She is a practising sculptor and was a collaborator for Death Defying Theatre and Urban Theatre Projects for nearly ten years. Her experience with diverse communities is reflected in all areas of her work. Her recent work included the Auburn arts program at the Auburn Community Development Network and CULTIVATOR Manager for CCDNSW (2004-2010). Martha is currently working as the Coordinator of arts and cultural projects at Canada Bay Council.
Martha served on the RAF State Assessment Panel in 2007 and 2009.
Ausdance nominee
Cathy is currently the Director of Ausdance NSW, the peak professional body for dance in NSW, and has led the organisation for the past five years. Cathy has worked within the dance industry internationally and within Australia for the past 20 years as both a professional dancer and Arts Manager. She was Executive Director of the Australian Dance Awards at the Sydney Opera House from 2004 to 2006 and will produce the Australian Youth Dance Festival in 2011. Recent dance development initiatives include the 2009-11 Regional and Indigenous Dance Program for NSW and the Dance Space Residency Program supported by the City of Sydney. Previously she worked within the Marketing and Corporate Communications portfolio at Sydney Opera House for three years, managing the International journalist program and corporate communications campaigns.
Cathy has completed a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) from Queensland University of Technology and a Graduate Certificate in Event Management from the University of Technology Sydney. She is a graduate of the Queensland Dance School of Excellence and the Australian Ballet School’s Advanced Diploma of Teaching for professional dancers.
This is Cathy’s second year on the RAF State Assessment Panel.
NSW Writers representative
Brian is the founder and coordinator of the upcoming Bellingen Writers festival in April 2011. His career has taken him from teaching art in outback NSW, to releasing CDs and performing with alt-rock band Distant Locust in Europe. In the late eighties-early nineties he was Secretary, President and first Public Officer of the Poets Union, helping to establish it as a truly national body. He followed this with five-year stints as Membership Secretary of the Australian Society of Authors and Senior Producer of Audio Books at the Royal Blind Society.
From late 2003 to March 2008, he worked for the Australia Council for the Arts, initially for the Music Board and later as Program Officer for the Literature Board. In 2002 he graduated with a Master of Writing at Sydney’s UTS, concentrating on the novel. Since 2003 he has worked on manuscript assessments for a top agency, and in early 2008 moved and established Renaissance Manuscript Service in Bellingen, on NSW’s mid-north coast. He has had more than fifty poems published in Australia and overseas, edited anthologies such as Poets on Wheels, and is the author of the Australian Society of Author’s paper Writing for the Poetry Market.
Regional Conservatorium representative
Graham Sattler began his musical career as a trombonist, playing with the major orchestras of Sydney and Melbourne, and ensembles ranging in style from early music, through commercial musical theatre, to contemporary and experimental. As a singer, Graham has worked as an ensemble member of the Australian Opera (1990 – 1994), soloist with the Auckland Philharmonia and the Symphony Orchestras of Sydney, Tasmania and West Australia and as a member of Sounds Baroque, touring with Musica Viva-in-Schools from 1997 to 2000.
Graham has been Musical Director of several school band programs, the Manly Warringah Choir and Orchestra, Sydney's Grange Orchestra and Ensemble, as well as various events such as the Sydney Paralympic Games team meet and the opening of Sydney's Fox Studios. From 1997 - 2000 he was Musical Director of several Australian Youth Choir ensembles.
After consolidating his musical activities with a Master of Performance (Conducting) in 2000, he was appointed Music Director of the Orange Regional Conservatorium (Director/CEO since 2005), where he has undertaken to develop the music education resources for that region. Since taking the reins at the Orange Regional Conservatorium, development in programs includes curricular-support in local schools, distance learning via video-conferencing, and partnerships with community and allied organisations such as F.O.O.D, Orange Regional Vigneron's Association, Friends of the Botanic Gardens, Orange Theatre Company, Charles Sturt University and Greater Western Area Health Services (Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services).
As an Executive member of the Association of NSW Regional Conservatoriums since 2003, Graham has developed a keen awareness of the broad-ranging music education issues affecting isolated students and communities across the state. He has recently commenced postgraduate research in the area of socio-cultural development through ensemble music programs and spent several weeks at the end of 2006 studying programs in the United States and Bolivia.
Recently appointed as adjunct lecturer with Charles Sturt University, Graham is engaged in course design and delivery of the new Associate Degree in Music Education.
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