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AMANDA BIGGS Chair

Amanda is a passionate supporter of contemporary art. Scarcely a night goes by when you won’t see Amanda Biggs at an arts event or looking to add to her extensive collection. She previously worked as a gallery assistant for the Contemporary Arts Society in Adelaide, before moving to Sydney and working as a freelance cartoonist. By day Amanda is a senior researcher at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library, researching and advising Parliamentarians on health and social policy issues. She graduated from Flinders University with a double major (Honours) in Fine Arts and English, and later completed a Graduate Diploma in Librarianship from UNSW and a Master of Arts from Deakin University. She has written numerous papers on health policy for the Parliamentary Library, as well as reviews and articles for the CAS Broadsheet and Words and Visions art magazine.

IAN WHYTE Treasurer

Ian is a Chartered Accountant and Financial Adviser with over 40 years experience in Financial Services. He trained with international accounting firms KPMG and Deloitte for 9 years before establishing his own boutique practice – Whyte & Di Placido which he operated until 2004. In 2005 and 2006 Ian was General Manager of Sydney based multi media company - Spinifex Interactive. Ian returned to Canberra in June 2007 and commenced a financial planning and SMSF advisory business Capital Advisory. This business was sold in 2018.

KARINA HARRIS Secretary

Karina Harris is an award-winning Landscape Architect based on Ngunnawal country and a passionate supporter of the arts in Canberra. A founding partner of Harris Hobbs Landscapes, Karina was president of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects ACT Chapter from 2012-2014. She has taught design at the University of Canberra and The Canberra Institute of Technology for over two decades. Over the last 30 years Karina and her partner Neil have amassed a significant collection of Australian and international art. Their collection was featured in Art Collector magazine in 2019 and was the subject of the 2007 exhibition ‘Good Thing’ at CCAS. Karina has been a CCAS Board member since 2008 and sat on the DESIGN Canberra Festival committee in 2015 and 2016. As a philanthropist she has supported major commissions and prizes including the ANU School of Art and Design Postgraduate Materials Award since 2007.

TINA BAUM Board Member

Tina Baum is from the Gulumirrgin (Larrakia), Wardaman and Karajarri peoples of the Northern Territory and Western Australia with over thirty years’ experience in museums and galleries in Australia. Tina previously worked at the Queensland Museum, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, National Museum of Australia and has been Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia since 2005. Tina curated the Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, 2017 and the Emerging Elders exhibitions in 2009. She is a current recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Leaders Program, 2020 and has participated in the NGA and Wesfarmers Arts, Indigenous Arts Leadership and Fellowship programs since its inception in 2010 as a mentor to the alumni and as a presenter and organiser.

ADAM PEPPINCK Board Member

Adam is a partner in Mills Oakley’s Property team in Canberra. He has more than 15 years’ experience acting on a range of structured property transactions, in which he has advised public and private sector clients in relation to the leasing, licensing, divestment, acquisition, and development of real property. In addition to advising in relation to property law matters, Adam also regularly advises clients in relation to environmental, planning, heritage, and native title aspects. Adam has been listed every year since 2014 in the Best Lawyers publication and is again featured in the 2020 edition for Real Property Law, Leasing Law, and Government Practice, including being recognised as the 2020 Canberra Real Property Lawyer of the Year. Adam is the Chair of the ACT Law Society’s Property Law Committee and is a member of the ACT Division of the Property Council of Australia’s Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee.

PAUL MAGEE Board Member

Paul first book of poems, Cube Root of Book (John Leonard Press: 2006) was shortlisted in the Innovation category of the 2008 Adelaide Festival Awards for literature. His second, Stone Postcard(John Leonard Press: 2014) was named in Australian Book Review as one of the books of the year for 2014. He is also the author of the surrealist ethnography From Here to Tierra del Fuego (University of Illinois Press: 2000). Paul studied in Melbourne, Moscow, San Salvador and Sydney. He is Associate Professor in Poetry at the University of Canberra, and is currently working on Rapid Eye Movements in the U.S.A., a travel book focused on what New York and San Francisco look like with your eyes closed.

ELLIS HUTCH Board Member

Ellis Hutch (aka Dr Kate M Murphy) has a drawing and photographybased practice which spans animation, mixed-media installation, performance and sound. She is fascinated with how people establish social relationships and transform their environments in order to create inhabitable spaces. Her practice-led PhD research Bringing Back New Worlds: A Poetics of Exploratory Space investigated the ways in which Antarctic and Lunar explorers’ accounts of their experiences in extreme environments form foundations for a poetics of exploratory space. Currently Ellis is focussing her research around the place she lives, Canberra; on Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri country investigating the effects of human intervention on the Molonglo river and exploring wider themes of the impacts of ‘invasive species.’ Ellis has extensive experience working for organisations such as the National Gallery of Australia, Craft ACT, Art Monthly Australia and the Canberra Institute of TAFE and since 2004 has worked as a sessional lecturer in the Foundation Studies, Sculpture and Art Theory Workshops at the ANU School of Art & Design. She currently lectures there in Sculpture and Spatial Practice.

DANIEL VUKOVLJAK Board Member

Daniel Vukovljak is a visual artist. His practice explores themes of escape/ fantasy, grief, technology, portraiture and self. His work is in corporate and private collections in Australia and UK. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours 1st Class) and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the Australian National University. Prior to his art career, he was a founding partner in a number of successful businesses in the computer animation industry. He was a committee member of ANCA for five years, and in 2009 he was a recipient of the CCAS Emerging Artists Support Scheme (EASS) Residency and Exhibition Award.

DAVID BROKER Director

David has previously worked as Administrator and co-editor of Broadsheet magazine at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, and Deputy Director of Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art from 1996-2006. Having completed a Bachelor’s Degree Visual Arts majoring in Photography and Film at the University of South Australia, David developed a parallel career as an arts journalist. His articles and reviews have been regularly published in periodicals such as Artlink, Art Monthly, Broadsheet, Eyeline and Photofile. He has also contributed to numerous books including Shoosh! A History of the Campfire Group, (IMA Brisbane 2005) and The Thrill of it All, Karin Hanssen, (MER Paper Kunsthalle, Antwerp 2010). For many years David also produced and presented arts radio shows on 4ZZZ in Brisbane and 5UV in Adelaide.

David has curated and managed varied exhibition projects including, Beauty 2000 at the IMA in 1998, Primavera 2002 at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the IMA/Ssamzie Space International Residency Exchange in Brisbane and Seoul in 2004, QPACifika, (with Professor Pat Hoffie) Griffith University 2005 and in 2008, Streetworks an exhibition of work by Shaun Gladwell and Craig Walsh toured by Asialink to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. More recently he contributed to the Centenary of Canberra (19132013) with Science Fiction: Monster and Kynic, Erica Seccombe and Benjamin Forster, two exhibitions that explore notions scientific reality and mutations within popular consciousness and media.

In 2017 he worked with the Photomedia Faculties at Queensland College of the Arts, Griffith University and The University of South Australia School of Art Architecture and Design on an exhibition called Parallel Latitudes that explored the impact of divergent political administrations on contemporary art in Queensland and South Australia since the 1970s. At the ANU School of Art and Design Gallery in 2018 David curated Tulisi an exhibition by Wellington based artist Christopher Ulutupu focusing on issues affecting New Zealanders of Samoan descent as well as heartin-hand by Brenda Croft and Does she know the revolution is coming? by Amala Groom during NAIDOC week.

ALEXANDER BOYNES Curator, Program Manager

Alexander Boynes completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) at the Australian National University in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Hi-Vis Futures (Canberra Museum + Gallery, 2019-2020), Slow Hope (Beaver Galleries, 2019), Rewriting the Score (Latrobe Regional Gallery, 2019) , Gaia Hypothesis (Belconnen Arts Centre, 2019), Sydney Contemporary (Carriageworks, 2018), and As Above, So Below (MAYSPACE, 2018.

He is represented in the collections of the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art (USA), Artbank Australia (VIC), the ACT Legislative Assembly (ACT), the University of Canberra (ACT), the Macquarie Group Collection (NSW) and numerous private collections throughout Australia and in the UK.

Boynes is a Curator and Program Manager at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space. His most recent curatorial projects include BLAZE 14 (opening post COVID-19 closure, CCAS East Space), Unfinished Business (CCAS Gorman Arts Centre, 2019) and Straight Outta Canberra (MAYSPACE, Sydney, 2018).

In 2013 Boynes established PRAXIS a multidisciplinary art collective with choreographer/dancer Laura Boynes, and cellist/composer Tristen Parr to explore the link between visual art, performance, and sound. Their most recent work Dark Matter was presented at the State Theatre of Western Australia in 2016.

Boynes has also produced a series of major collaborative painting, moving image and sound works with Mandy Martin and Tristen Parr. These politically-charged works examine the ongoing and cumulative effects of industry on landscapes, fragile ecosystems and human conditions. Canberran audiences had the opportunity to experience these works for the first time in November 2019, when Boynes and Martin presented their exhibition Hi-Vis Futures at Canberra Musuem + Gallery.

Alexander Boynes is represented by Beaver Galleries in Canberra.

DAN TOUA Curator, Gallery Manager

Dan is an arts worker, curator and writer living and working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country (Canberra, Australia). Dan holds a Bachelor in International Relations (2009) from the Australian National University, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Art History (2015) and a Master of Art Curatorship (2016) from the University of Melbourne.

During her time in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), Dan co-created the Art History Student Society in 2016 and served as its Secretary in its inaugural year. Curating, interning and volunteering at various gallery spaces across Melbourne helped inform Dan’s thesis, in which she explored the Western curation of non-Western art and artefacts, and how changing curatorial processes from within national institutions can shape contemporary art practice.

FAY DUFFEY Bookkeeper

Fay was Gorman Arts Centre bookkeeper and receptionist for many years before the current CCAS Staff even arrived on the scene. It’s a similar story with her involvement at CCAS and what she doesn’t know about the finances isn’t worth knowing.

ALEX ASCH Installation

Alex Asch was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and was involved in University art programs in Los Angeles and New York before moving to Australia and studying art at the Australian National University in 1988. He has provided technical assistance to a number of arts organisations around Canberra, and has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia and overseas. In 2008, Alex was awarded the Rosalie Gascoigne Award by CAPO in 2009. Alex was a finalist in Bondi’s Sculpture by the Sea, and was invited to represent Australia in Sculpture by the Sea in Denmark the same year. In 2013 was invited to take part in Centenary celebrations and exhibited at Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra Glassworks, Canberra Contemporary Arts Space and ANU Canberra School of Art. He exhibited work at the Inaugural Sydney Art Fair in 2013 and was a finalist in the Blake Prize. Alex’s work is in corporate collections in Australia, USA, UK and Netherlands as well as Artbank, the ACT Legislative Assembly, the Wesley Art Foundation and Canberra Museum and Gallery and National Australian Gallery.

Alex Asch is represented by Beaver Galleries.

Declaration of conflicts of interest CCAS has strict policies in respect to conflicts of interest that require Board members to declare potential conflicts at the beginning of each Board meeting. The Board’s decisions with regard to conflicts of interest are recorded in the minutes of the relevant meeting. Board members are unable to benefit in any way, pecuniary or otherwise, from CCAS programs until one year following their resignation. People employed by CCAS cannot participate in the artistic program, except in exceptional circumstances, which must be approved by the Board. There were no conflicts of interest declared at Board meetings in 2021.

Amanda Biggs (Chair) Ian Whyte (Treasurer) Karina Harris (Secretary) Tina Baum Paul Magee Adam Peppinck Kate Murphy Dan Vukovljak

David Broker (Director) Alexander Boynes (Curator/Program Manager) Dan Toua (Gallery Manager) Alex Asch (Installation) Fay Duffey (Bookkeeper)

ARTISTS (CCAS) Joel Arthur, Alex Asch, Emma Beer, Lara Chamas, Mariana del Castillo, Caroline Garcia, Rory Gillen, Aiden Hartshorn, Pat Hoffie, Robbie Karmel, Shivanjani Lal, Rosalind Lemoh, Natalie Mather, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Andy Mullens, Elefteria Vlavianos

ARTISTS (CCAS Manuka) Ali Aedy, Nigel Dobson, Rose-Mary Falkner, Emanuella Gambale, Toni Hassan, Siobhan O’Connor, Peter Van de Maele,

Tara Cheyne, MLA Minister for the Arts, Sam Tyler, Jenny Spear, Robert Piani, Jacqui Vardos, Libby Gordon, Mia Ching

Laura McLeaod, Frank Panucci, Mikala Tai, Tegan Richardson

Vivienne Binns, Chaitanya Sambrani

Justine Nagel

Garry Robson, Luke Saltmarsh

artsACT, GEOCON, Fender Katsalidis, Suburban Land Agency

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney Ace Open, Adelaide Artspace, Sydney Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Blak Dot, Melbourne Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart Firstdraft, Sydney Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin Performance Space, Sydney Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth West Space, Melbourne

CCAS IS SUPPORTED BY THE ACT GOVERNMENT, AND THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL, IT’S ARTS FUNDING AND ADVISORY BODY.