BOARDS, PANELS & AMBASSADOR
SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS CREATIVE SERVICES ADVISORY. 2012 TO PRESENT
‘Sydney Living Museums, the public-facing name of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW, cares for 12 of the State’s most important historic houses, museums and their collections. We bring our museums to life through a dynamic program of exhibitions, events such as walks, talks and tours. Each year, nearly a million visitors enjoy our exhibitions or public programs, visit our sites, or book our fantastic venues, whilst around 60,000 young people each year learn about the past through our great education programs’.
MAKERSPACE &COMPANY ADVISORY BOARD. 2013 TO 2018
‘A design company made up of emerging designers and their products. &company collaborates with creative talents to bring new, inspired products to market. &company is a broker of creative opportunity, bringing together emerging designers, the creative community, makers, classes, workshop spaces, exhibitions and events. &company celebrates innovation, excellence, craftsmanship, entrepreneurialism and the shared knowledge and skill that comes from building a creative community’.
ARTAND AUSTRALIA EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 2013 TO 2015
‘Art & Australia is an international contemporary art magazine from Sydney, Australia. It features exhibition and book reviews, tributes, commissioned artist's projects, essays, in-depth interviews, and analyses of contemporary art issues.’
CITY OF SYDNEY RETAIL ADVISORY PANEL. 2010 TO PRESENT
Panel member. ‘The Panel brings together the retail industry, the NSW Government and Council to work together on issues of common interest; provide strategic advice that would help shape the future of retailing in Sydney and identify and create opportunities for retailing to capitalize on the expansion of major events and tourism campaigns through better integration with Events NSW, Tourism NSW and Business Events Sydney’.
DRESSING SYDNEY PUBLIC PROGRAMS PANEL 2012 TO 2013
GARAGE SALE TRAIL AMBASSADOR. 2011 TO 2014
‘The Garage Sale Trail is about sustainability, community and fun. By getting people together to turn their old stuff into someone else's new stuff, the day not only proves that second hand items can still have value, it keeps rubbish off the street, removes clutter from cupboards, stops a bunch of new things being brought into the world (along with the environmental impact that creates) and gives everyone good reason to meet the neighbours and have a good natter at the same time.’ The first year saw more than 1,600 garage sales for the event.
1 MILLION WOMEN AMBASSADOR. 2009 TO PRESENT
VOICELESS COUNCIL MEMBER. 2009 TO PRESENT
Supporter since 2004 and designer of the Voiceless Awards trophies, which support and recognize community and media.‘Voiceless envisions a world in which animals are treated with respect and compassion. Voiceless will bring the institutionalized suffering of animals to the forefront of Australia’s agenda; ensuring that animal protection is the next great social justice movement’.
CREATIVE SYDNEY. 2010
A curator of the 10 x 10 project. ’10 creative leaders each nominate 10 creative businesses or practitioners, introducing the local creatives who inspire them’.
Speaker at ‘Creative for a Cause’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art. ‘At the Creative Sydney Festival, Artistic Director Jess Scully led a panel titled "Creative for a Cause", inviting eco designers, independent and charitable literary publishers, and other community-aware creatives, to share their ethos, and their industry story’.
DIRECTORS CIRCLE. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART. 2000 TO 2016
The MCA Director’s Working Circle is a group committed to and proud, of the dynamic place that is the MCA. It is a group that is active in its support of meeting the Museums’ objectives and purpose to broaden the reach of the MCA in order to increase involvement in the MCA experience.