Gallery of Achievement Inductees 2016
Lieutenant Colonel Ross CHAPMAN, DSM (1997) Lieutenant Colonel Ross Chapman entered the Australian Defence Force Academy after graduating from Camberwell Grammar School in 1997. After completing an Arts Degree, he entered the Royal Military College – Duntroon and graduated as a Lieutenant in the Australian Army in 2001. Over the next three years, Lieutenant Colonel Chapman served as a Platoon Commander within an Infantry Battalion and completed a nine-month tour in East Timor. Following successful selection for the Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) in 2006, Lieutenant Colonel Chapman completed a number of different roles within the unit over the following eight years. This included numerous operational deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and a separate rotation to Afghanistan with a United States Special Operations Command unit. In 2010, Lieutenant Colonel Chapman was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for leadership in combat while performing duties as an SAS Troop Commander in Afghanistan. On another rotation in 2013, Lieutenant Colonel Chapman was awarded a Commendation for Distinguished Service for leadership in his role as an SAS Squadron Commander. Lieutenant Colonel Chapman is currently serving in Indonesia where he is attached to the Indonesian military as an Instructor at the Indonesian Command and Staff College.
Dr Nigel John KELLAWAY (1972)
After studying piano and composition at the universities of Melbourne and Adelaide, Nigel embarked on a career as a dancer and theatre artist. He was the first Australian actor to work with the Suzuki Company of Toga (Japan, 1984-85) and also worked with butoh artists Min Tanaka and Kazuo Ohno in Tokyo. Over forty years, he has created more than seventy seminal full length theatre, dance and music works with companies including The Sydney Front, The One Extra Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Entr’acte, Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Sidetrack Performance Group, Legs on the Wall, Ihos Contemporary Opera, the Australian Dance Theatre, Stalker, Calculated Risks Opera Productions, the Song Company, Splinters Theatre of Spectacle, Urban Theatre Projects, Stopera and his own company The Opera Project, and for venues including Performance Space (NSW), the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (WA), Salamanca Arts Centre (Tas), the Royal Court Theatre (UK) and Centre Nationale de la Danse (France). His work has featured in major festivals nationally and internationally. He served on the Dance Board of the Australia Council from 1993-96, and was awarded the 1997 Rex Cramphorn Theatre Scholarship by the NSW Ministry for the Arts and a senior artist’s Fellowship by the Theatre Board of the Australia Council (2004-05). Since 2011 he has been an artist-in-residence at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon Estate. Awarded a Doctorate in Creative Arts by the University of Wollongong (2015), he continues to work as a freelance director, performer and mentor.
Mr Jeremy H KIBEL (1991)
Jeremy Kibel is an artist, gallery director, publisher, and entrepreneur. Between 1992 -1993 Jeremy worked as a studio assistant in New York. On his return to Melbourne, he was a studio assistant for the celebrated Australian artists Robert Jacks and Jenny Watson. Jeremy has been exhibiting his work in solo and group exhibitions since 2000. He has been a finalist several times in the prestigious Archibald Prize. He has also been a finalist in the Wynne and Sulman Prize, the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, ABN-AMRO Emerging Art Award, National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, and the Paul Guest Drawing Prize. In 2011, he won the Substation Contemporary Art Prize. In 2006, Jeremy co-founded Blockprojects art gallery, which showcased the works of many emerging and established artists. A few years later, he launched Blockeditions, which enabled artists to make innovative editions of prints. In 2012, Jeremy was selected by property development firm, Hamton to created artwork for their boutique development, Fifty Albert, which subsequently won the Best Contribution to Urban Art Award from The City of Port Phillip’s 12th Design Development Awards in 2014. In 2014, Jeremy launched NKN Gallery with partners Bill Nuttall and Yasmin Nguyen. One arm of the gallery is his consultancy business, which focuses on financial investment diversification into blue chip Australian and international art. Jeremy is the founder and director of Vault: New Art & Culture magazine, which features local and international art and artists; fashion; architecture and other areas of creative expression. He currently sits on the advisory board of NotFair, a biennial art exhibition established in 2010, which presents the work of emerging and undervalued mid-generation artists.
Mr J Andrew McFARLANE (1969)
Andrew McFarlane is an instantly recognisable personality to Australian film, television and theatre audiences. Over three decades on television, he has become an icon of the Australian screen, having appeared in some of our most successful programmes. His broad ranging appeal has delighted children for almost a decade on Play School, he also played beloved 70s/80s character JOHN Sullivan in The Sullivans, and Dr. ’Tom CALAGHAN in The Flying Doctors among many other memorable TV appearances in programs including: Glitch, A Place to Call Home, Love Child, his ASTRA Award winning role in Devils Playground (mini-series), Janet King, The Alice, Neighbours, Through My Eyes, Heroes’ Mountain – the Thredbo Story, The Day of The Roses, Home & Away, Water Rats, Blue Heelers, Shortland Street, All Saints, Murder Call, The Violent Earth, Heartbreak High, Spellbinder, Halifax fp, GP, Rafferty’s Rules, Patrol Boat, Division 4 and Homicide. He is currently shooting the new Channel 9 series Hyde & Seek and the ABC mini-series Seven Types of Ambiguity to be screened later in 2016. Andrew appeared as Donald Mackay in Underbelly II, A Tale of Two Cities - Australia’s highest rating television series launch ever. He is also a regular on the popular reality programme 20 to One. Andrew’s film credits include Truth, The Shallows, The Falls, Razzle Dazzle, Little White Lies, Returning Lily, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Doctors and Nurses, Break of Day and Born to Run. Andrew has also appeared in leading roles in countless stage productions, many with Sydney and Melbourne main stage theatre companies. His credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, Henry 1V Pt 1, A Month in the Country, Private
Lives, Emerald City, After the Ball, Woman in Mind, Scarlett O’Hara at the Crimson Parrot, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, as well as, Salieri in Peter Shafer’s Amadeus. Andrew premiered in David Williamson’s Let the Sunshine, and more recently, Nothing Personal. Following his appearance in the Black Swan State Theatre Company’s production of Arcadia, Andrew starred in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of The Heretic, Tamarama Rock Surfers’ I Want to Sleep with Tom Stoppard and in Griffin Theatre Company’s Dreams in White. In 2016 Andrew appeared in Quartet for Queensland Theatre Company. Andrew recently delighted audiences in Perth performing with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and joined Gordon Frost Organisation’s blockbuster musical FAME as resident director and in the role of Mr Myers. Andrew has also enjoyed a successful voice-over career, playing characters such as Big Nut Brown Hare and Otter in the children’s classic Guess How Much I Love You as well as narrating audio books for the blind.
Mr D Ian WILLE (1962)
After studying Arts and Law at the University of Melbourne, Ian was selected into the Department of External Affairs’ 1968 diplomatic cadet intake. Since then Ian has had overseas postings in Wellington, Phnom Penh, Dhaka, Belgrade, Apia and New Delhi. From 1987 until 1990, Ian was Australian High Commissioner in the West Indies, based in Kingston, Jamaica, and was accredited as High Commissioner to the other 11 Commonwealth Caribbean countries. Since retiring from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ian has been employed part time in DFAT as part of a consultant team of Access Examiners, reviewing the Department’s classified material with a view to public release under the 1983 Archives Act. As well as a busy life in the Diplomatic service Ian has maintained his love of cricket, playing all over the world and most recently he was selected to represent Australia in the first over 70s to tour England.