Visual arts board members
Prof Ted Snell AM, chair, WA
Professor Ted Snell AM was appointed chair of the visual arts board and a member of Council for three years from 27 December 2006. Ted is Professor of Contemporary Art, and Dean of Art at the John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth. He has made a significant contribution to the Australian visual arts sector through his roles as Chair of Artbank, chair of the Asialink Visual Arts Advisory Committee, chair of the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools and as a board member of the National Association for the Visual Arts. Ted has curated many exhibitions and has published several books and catalogues. He has twice been shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Award. Currently he is the Perth art reviewer for The Australian and has been a commentator on the arts for ABC radio and television. A practising visual artist since 1968, his work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane, and in group exhibitions throughout Australia. Ted's work is represented in many public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Artbank and the Art Gallery of Western Australia as well as in private collections in Australia and overseas.
Steven Alderton (community interest representative), NSW
Steven Alderton has an extensive history of involvement with various art galleries throughout Australia, having served as Manager of the Redland Art Gallery and as curator of the Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery. He is currently the director of the Lismore Regional Gallery. He has curated a large number of exhibitions including, Patricia Piccinini, Double Love Knot; Lucian Freud, Still; and Dale Frank, Gin Gin Paintings. In the early 90s he established the Brisbane based artist run initiative, Space Plentitude, where he curated many exhibitions by emerging artists. Steven has a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Steven has been a member of various boards and committees, such as the board of the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and the Regional Galleries Association of NSW Committee. He was also a Regional Arts Fund panel member for Regional Arts NSW.
Lyndal Jones, VIC
Lyndal Jones is a Melbourne-based visual artist and associate professor of multimedia at RMIT University. Lyndal is considered a pioneer of new media, video and performance art in Australia and has produced a considerable body of work since the early 1980’s. She represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2001 and was artist-in-residence for the City of Melbourne in 2001–02. In 2005, Lyndal was one of two Australian artists invited to exhibit in DMZ 2005, at the Demilitarised Zone in Korea. She was also a recipient of an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship in 1993-96. From 1999 until 2000, Lyndal was artist-in-residence at ARTEC, London and an Art Fellow in Media at the University of Paisley, Scotland from 1997 until 1998. Lyndal’s work has been exhibited at numerous galleries in Australia and overseas including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, Queensland Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, Maclaurin Gallery in Ayr, Scotland and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Her work has also appeared in Kwangju Biennale, Korea, 1997; the Melbourne International Biennale, 1999; Perspecta, Art Gallery of NSW, 1997; and the Biennale of Sydney, 1996. Her 10-year series of digital works, From the Darwin Translations has been widely acclaimed.
Richard Whiteley, NSW
Richard is a glass artist based in Queanbeyan who is currently the head of the glass workshop at the school of art, Australian National University. Richard has studied in Australia and the US and has worked closely with Czech artists Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova. He has held the position of chair of the board at Object: Australian Centre of Craft and Design (2000-2002) and was an international board member of the Glass Art Society in the US (1999-2001).
Richard was the winner of the prestigious Ranamok Glass Art Prize in 2000 and he has received five grants from the Australia Council visual arts board, most recently a new work grant in 2005 to produce work for exhibition at SOFA in Chicago, USA, and for the exhibition ‘Autralishce Impressionen’ in Gottingen, Germany. Richard continues to make significant contributions to glass art through his continual investigation and experimentation with new techniques and technologies.
Richard has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia, USA, and throughout Europe. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Solid and Suggested Space’ at Object Gallery in Sydney, ‘Inner Space’ at Axia Modern Art in Melbourne, and exhibitions of new and recent work at Chicago and Portland in the United States. Richard’s work is held in corporate, public and private collections nationally and internationally including, National Gallery of Australia, National Glass Collection in Wagga Wagga, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, and the Bullseye Glass Company Collection in the United States.
Michael Zavros, QLD
Brisbane visual artist Michael Zavros, graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1996 where he has subsequently worked as a lecturer in painting and printmaking. Michael has taken part in numerous group exhibitions including Primavera 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Quiet Collision: Current Practice/Australian Style, Associazione ViaFarini, Milan, Italy, 2003; and New Nature at Govett Brewster Gallery, New Zealand in 2007. His solo exhibitions include This Charming Man, 24HR Art, Darwin in 2006; Everything I wanted at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2003/2004; and Egoiste at Wollongong City Art Gallery, 2007. Michael is the recipient of several awards and grants. In 2005 he won the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize through the Bendigo Art Gallery and in 2004, 2005 and 2006 he was a finalist in The Archibald Prize. In 2001 he was awarded the visual arts board Milan residency and in 2005, the visual arts board Barcelona residency. In 2003 he was awarded a Cité Internationale des Arts Residency in Paris through the Power Institute, University of Sydney. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including Artbank, Collex, ABN AMRO, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Grafton Regional Art Gallery and the Tasmanian Museum and Gallery. In 2001 his work was included in Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids, a Craftsman House publication featuring 50 Australian contemporary artists.
Dennis Del Favero, NSW
Dennis Del Favero is an Australian photographic, video and new media artist and academic. He is currently Director of the iCinema Research Centre and ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, at the University of New South Wales, Professorial Fellow at ZKM, Germany, Visiting Professor at IUAV University of Venice, Visiting Associate Professor at City University Hong Kong and editor of the Digital Arts Edition series published by Hatje Cantz. He is a member of the Australian Research Council's HCA Research Evaluation Committee for the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA).
Dennis Del Favero's photography, video and new media artwork has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries such as Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Viafarini, Milan and Neue Galerie, Graz and included in major exhibitions such as Sex and Crime, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 1996, Kriegszustand, Battle of the Nations War Memorial, Leipzig (joint project with Jenny Holzer), 1996, Cinemas du futur, European Cultural Capital, Lille, 2004, Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2005, Artescienza: Spazio deformato, Casa dell'Architettura, Rome, 2006, Biennial of Seville, Seville, 2008, Imagining Media @ZKM, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe 2009.
He has held numerous Artist-in-Residencies including at Neue Galerie, Graz. His writings on art have been included in a number of Birkhauser, MIT, Springer, and ZKM publications. Dennis has also worked on a large range of international multi-disciplinary research projects with organisations such as University of Nottingham, University of Pittsburgh and ZKM and has been awarded numerous international Fellowships.
Angela Valamanesh, SA
Angela is an Adelaide based visual artist of reputation and considerable sensibility. Her work is minimal and organic and alludes to the space between form and function and art and science.
Angela Valamanesh has a MA Visual Arts from the University of South Australia. In 1996 she received an Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts scholarship where she completed a MFA Program at the Glasgow School of Art. Angela is currently completing a PhD Research Degree at the University of South Australia.
Angela has won many awards including the South Australian Ceramic Award in 2007 and La Trobe University Merit Award as part of the Sidney Myer Ceramics Exhibition Award in 2008. In 2000 she was artist in residence at the Jam Factory Ceramics Studio in Adelaide and in 2006 at the Canberra School of Art. Angela has received four grants from the Australia Council Visual Arts Board, most recently a New Work grant to create and exhibit a new body of ceramic works for an exhibition at the Jam Factory.
Having exhibited widely throughout Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA Angela’s has recent exhibition All Creatures: works from Natural history collection, was presented in Adelaide at Greenaway Art Gallery in 2009. She was also part of the Bravura 21st Century Australian Craft exhibition held at Art Gallery of South Australia in 2010.
Angela’s work has been collected by numerous private collections in Australia, Japan and the USA as well as being represented in many public collections. Some of them include the Art Gallery South Australia, Artbank, Westpac and Macquarie Banks, La Trobe University, the University of South Australia, University of Adelaide and the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre in Japan. Angela has recently had the monograph About being here published by Wakefield Press.
Danie Mellor, NSW
Danie Mellor was born in Mackay, Queensland. His work utilises a broad range of media including drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and installation. It addresses the complex histories of Australia's Indigenous, Colonial and Settler communities.
Danie is currently lecturing in Theoretical Enquiry at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours from Canberra School of Art and a MA (Fine Art) from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England, UK, he completed his doctorate at the School of Art, National Institute of the Arts, ANU in Canberra in 2004.
Danie has gone on to win many national awards, including the 26th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2009, the 2006 Canberra Critic's Choice Award for Visual Arts, and has most recently won the 2010 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing. In 2006 he also received Research and Development funding from the University of Sydney.
Danie's work is held in numerous private and public collections including National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank and the Kerry Stokes Collection. Danie has received two grants from the Visual Arts Board; the most recent a 2009 New Work Grant to create taxidermy sculpture and installation works for exhibition at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery.