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Making Your
Gallery Inclusive
When: Tuesday 22 May 2018
Where: Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers Street
Abbotsford VIC 3067
Professional Development
Program 2018
Semester 1, Session 5
BOOKINGS CLOSE MIDDAY 17 MAY 2018
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Making Your Presenter
Gallery Inclusive
The Public Galleries Association of Victoria is the peak body for public galleries,
and is proud to deliver an enhanced Professional Development Program in 2018
as part of its commitment to facilitating capacity building across the sector.
Tuesday 22 May 2018
When: 10.30am - 3.30pm,
Tuesday 22 May 2018 Presentation Partners
Where: Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers Street The PGAV wishes to thank the following Making Your Gallery Inclusive
Presentation Partners.
Melbourne VIC 3067
Latest ABS research reveals diversity in the Australian community is flourishing:
almost one in five Australians (4.3 million people) reported living with a disability;
around 15% of the population (3.7 million Australians) were aged 65 and over;
and Australians identify with more than 270 ancestries, with over a quarter of the
population born overseas.
Making Your Gallery Inclusive will feature a range of presenters who will provide
insights into exhibitions and programs they’ve designed to engage, include, and
celebrate diverse audiences.
Organisation Supporters
The PGAV is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria
and receives significant in-kind support from the National Gallery of Victoria.
Cover Image: Fiona Taylor
Fiona and Nicole Livingstone [detail] 2017
linocut, 20.5 x 30 cm
Copyright the artist
Represented by Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
Courtesy of the artist and Arts Project Australia, MelbourneTuesday 22 May 2018
Abbotsford Convent: 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford VIC 3067 | Community Room
Registrations and Morning Tea: Lunch: Networking:
10.30 am 12.30 pm - Lentil as Anything 3.20 pm - Cam’s
TIME SESSION PRESENTERS
10.50 am WELCOME ERIC NASH, PGAV
11 am PRESENTATION: All welcome at the Abbotsford Convent COLLETTE BRENNAN, Abbotsford Convent
MADÉ SPENCER-CASTLE,
Centre for Contemporary Photography
SNAPSHOT PRESENTATIONS:
VICTOR GRISS,
11.25 am A range of leading industry speakers provide short case studies detailing exhibitions
Counihan Gallery in Brunswick
and programs that have engaged specific community groups, or the broader public
JULIE McLAREN,
Art Gallery of Ballarat
PRESENTATION: VERONICA PARDO and JANICE FLORENCE,
1.30 pm
How to make your gallery more accessible and inclusive for those living with a disability Arts Access Victoria
PRESENTATION: DR DAMIAN SMITH and SNEHA VARMA,
2.10 pm
Providing opportunities to Victorian artists from diverse cultural backgrounds Words for Art and Multicultural Arts Victoria
PRESENTATION:
BERNADETTE FITZGERALD,
2.45 pm Democratising the curatorial process in FCAC gallery with a focus on the Creatively
Footscray Community Arts Centre
Ageing exhibition 2015
NETWORKING:
3.20 pm Panelists and participants are invited to continue discussions from the day during an
informal networking session at Cam’s Kiosk (cafe and bar)Notes and Questions Use this space to record any notes from the session, or to write down questions you would like to raise during the panel discussion.
Presenters
Collette Brennan Bernadette Fitzgerald
CEO, Abbotsford Convent Program Manager,
Footscray Community Arts Centre
Collette Brennan joined the Director of Circa Contemporary
Abbotsford Convent as CEO in Circus; founding Creative Director Spanning over more than two She will speak to the Centre’s
late September 2016. Collette’s of The Edge, the State Library of decades, Bernadette has had Creatively Ageing program, an
expertise spans performing arts, Queensland’s program for children producer and management artistic and cultural platform for and
festivals, youth arts, arts education and young people; and General experience in community arts, by seniors and elders in Melbourne’s
and public programming, with senior Manager of the Queensland community cultural development and west. Creatively Ageing challenges
roles based in Brisbane, Sydney and Performing Arts Centre’s Out of the arts education, ranging across many stereotypical perceptions of ageing
now Melbourne, with national and Box Festival for 3- to 8-year-olds, to areas of contemporary practice in a and explores models of communal
international remits. name a few. community context. authoring of content and co-
curation, opening up the curatorial
Collette is passionate about When asked to name a favourite During her time at Footscray process to the community and
connecting the arts to diverse space at the Abbotsford Convent Community Arts Centre , she has artists to inform a curatorial practice
audiences through curated Collette, like most, finds it hard to worked across numerous roles and model in a Community Arts and
programs, and via strategies which choose just one! However, among including, Arts and Learning Cultural Development organisation.
advance and promote the arts locally, Collette’s favourite spaces are the Producer, Creative Producer,
nationally and internationally. Convent Studios, which house an Exhibitions and Festivals, and is
inspiring community of artists, arts now Program Manager continuing
Most recently, Collette held a number and cultural organisations, wellbeing the responsibility of managing and
of roles with the Australia Council practitioners, educators and curating two gallery spaces and a
for the Arts, including: Director of broadcasters who are the heart and ‘Paste Up’ wall space.
International Development. Other soul of the Convent.
previous roles include: ExecutivePresenters
Janice Florence Victor Griss
Access Development Officer, Curator, Counihan Gallery in
Arts Access Victoria Brunswick
Janice Florence has trained in researched and performed with a Victor Griss is currently the Gallery His next project, the exhibition Video
teaching, librarianship and dance. focus on improvised dance forms. Curator at the Counihan Gallery in Echoes: Waves from the Eastern
She completed an Arts degree Brunswick, City of Moreland. Since Mediterranean featuring the work of
and teaching, library and dance Since 1998 she has been the Artistic 2005 he has curated exhibitions 8 international video artists will show
qualifications at the University of Director of Weave Movement by Australian contemporary artists at the Counihan Gallery throughout
Melbourne. Theatre, an inclusive dance theatre including Angela Cavalieri, Rona September 2018.
company comprising performers Green, David Harley, Peter Lyssiotis,
As a librarian she has worked in with various disabilities. Weave Helen Maudsley, Adrian Mauriks,
a secondary school library and has been in existence for 20 years, Louise Rippert, Brian Robinson, Lisa
in public and TAFE libraries. As a collaborating with respected local Roet, and Jan Senbergs.
disability advocate she has worked in artists and exploring an evolving
a number of disability organisations, style of inclusive physical theatre In addition to the group exhibition
before starting work at Arts Access to accommodate the talents and Leather Poisoning: Football
Victoria. aspirations of performing artists Possessions, he has also
with a wide range of disability. Weave collaborated on a number of co-
Parallel to this aspect of her life aims to create high quality, original curated projects such as In Your
she has been involved in the arts, performance to an ever-expanding Dreams (with Edwina Bartlem),
especially dance for many years. For audience. Landmarks (with Sim Luttin) and
10 years in the 90s and early 2000s, Is This Thing On? (with Catherine
she was a member of State of Flux, a Connolly).
company that taught,Presenters
Julie McLaren Eric Nash Veronica Pardo
Curator, Art Gallery of Ballarat Professional Development Officer, Executive Director,
Public Galleries Association of Arts Access Victoria
Since being appointed as the Victoria
Curator, Art Gallery of Ballarat in Veronica is the Executive Director She has a long track record of
2016, Julie McLaren has delivered Eric joined the PGAV having served of Arts Access Victoria, the leading research programs aimed at
a series of ambitious and inclusive as Curator, Gallery Services at State’s leading arts and disability addressing barriers to participation.
exhibitions, including the acclaimed Perc Tucker Regional Gallery and organisation. In this role, she has led Veronica currently holds positions
2017 Romancing the Skull which Pinnacles Gallery in Townsville from an ambitious agenda of social and on the boards of the Arts Industry
explored our fascination with 2013 to 2016. In this role Eric was artistic transformation for people Council and VicHealth.
the skull and how it is used as a responsible for the development with a disability and the communities
symbol across genres, mediums and delivery of exhibitions, festivals, in which they live.
and traditions. Julie’s previous and programs, and significantly
experience includes as the Art contributed to the creation and With a passion for social justice
Gallery of Ballarat’s Registration implementation of a visual arts and equity, she has spearheaded
Assistant, the Fringe Coordinator strategy and business plan, as campaigns relating to the inclusion
with the Ballarat International Foto well as professional development of people with a disability in arts and
Biennale, and roles with the National programs. More recently Eric served culture, as audiences and cultural
Museum of Australia and National as the Arts and Culture Officer at innovators.
Film and Sound Archive. Melton City Council, and is currently
the General Manager - Operations Veronica has a successful history of
Julie completed her Bachelor of at the Centre for Contemporary employment at senior levels in the
Arts (Honours) from The Australian Photography. not for profit sector, with a major
National University in 2006. focus on policy and advocacy.Presenters
Dr Damian Smith Madé Spencer-Castle
Director, Words For Art Curator, Centre for Contemporary
Curator (Australia), Bienal de la Habana, Cuba Photography
Curator, Geoff Raby Collection, Beijing
Tutor, Art History VCA/MCM University of Melbourne Madé Spencer-Castle recently
Lecturer, Museum and Gallery Management, RMIT joined the Centre for Contemporary
Member, International Association of Art Critics, Paris Photography, having previously been
the Gallery Curator at Bus Projects.
Dr Damian Smith is a curator, arts ‘Barefoot Curating’, being a practical Archive, which houses copies of his He is an interdisciplinary artist,
writer and academic with extensive and philosophical approach to essays and articles on contemporary curator and occasional writer, was
international experience in the developing art projects in remote, art, including more than 150 a founding Director of DUDSPACE,
arena of contemporary art and unusual and under-resourced exhibition catalogues as well as and was a committee member of
culture. He is currently curating locations. The model is derived from artworks and ephemera. He is a Kings Artist-Run from 2012–14.
Australian participation in the experiences in contexts ranging former Vice-president of the PGAV Madé has recently completed a
Bienal de la Habana, Cuba and is from Mexican cities impacted by and was curator of the Heartlands major curatorial project with the
writing a monograph on the Beijing the so-named ‘war on drugs’, to the Refugee Art Prize, a national award for Queen Victoria Museum and Art
based Geoff Raby Collection of contemporary art scenes of Lhasa, artists from refugee backgrounds. Gallery, and is steering the Centre
Contemporary Chinese Art. Istanbul, China, London and Australia for Contemporary Photography’s
and the production of more than 40 exhibition programming, including a
In 2016 he was an invited guest exhibitions in Australia, Asia and the major survey exhibition with Sonia
speaker at the UNESCO-sponsored Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Leber and David Chesworth. Madé is
International Association of Art a Masters of Fine Arts by Research
Critics (AICA) where he presented an In 2016 The State Library of Victoria candidate at Monash Art Design and
overview of his doctoral research, established the Damian Smith Architecture.Presenters
Sneha Varma
Marketing, Development and
Communications Officer,
Multicultural Arts Victoria
Originally from India, Sneha With a strong passion for
has previously worked in event multicultural arts activities, Sneha
management, celebrity management, has proven skill and ability to
and social media management. She develop and implement effective
has also performed and worked for communication strategies to
over five years as a professional connect and engage with community
contemporary dancer in an all-girls members from diverse backgrounds.
dance ensemble. She has completed
her Bachelors of Science in Visual And now, she continues to be
Communication with a specialisation inspired and is looking forward to
in film production. work with great people in her new
home.
Sneha moved to Australia to
complete her Masters in Arts and
Cultural Management and has
simultaneously volunteered at the
Melbourne Fringe Festival, Indian
Film Festival, and Multicultural Arts
Victoria as well.Venue Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford VIC 3067 Community Room Just four kilometres from Melbourne’s CBD and spread over 16 acres, the Abbotsford Convent – with its 11 historic buildings and gardens – is Australia’s largest multi-arts precinct. There are many ways to get to the Abbotsford Convent. From experience, bike or public transport are always the best options; you can avoid the ever-increasing traffic on the roads, it’s the most sustainable way to get around and, to be honest, street parking is limited and on busy days the car park fills quickly. For detailed information about how to get to Abbotsford Convent by bike, bus, train, tram or car, and parking, please visit: http://abbotsfordconvent.com.au/visit/visitor-information
Accessibility
The Abbotsford Convent Foundation (ACF) is committed to improving access within the Convent precinct for everyone. The ACF acknowledges
that there are access challenges inherent in the Convent’s heritage buildings and gardens and remedial work is being undertaken as funding
permits. For information regarding navigating the Abbotsford Convent grounds and the location of the Community Room, please see map below.
For full detail about Universal Access at Abbotsford Convent, visit: http://abbotsfordconvent.com.au/visit/universal-access
Community
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Price
• PGAV Member $330 / Non-Member $440
• PGAV Members can also access exclusive 2018 Professional Development Program Four Session Packages. Packages cost $1122, delivering a 15%
saving, and provide our Member galleries with flexibility – pick any four sessions throughout the year for one of your staff to attend! For info or to purchase a
Professional Development Four Session Package, visit:
https://pgav.org.au/2018-PGAV-Four-Session-Package~1004
• All costs are GST inclusive.
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Registrations close Thursday 17 May 2018 at 12 noon.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
• Registered participants that are no longer able to attend may nominate a substitute up until the starting time. Where possible, please notify the PGAV of
substitutions and cancellations by email, up until Thursday 17 May 2018 at 12 noon.
• Cancellations received before Thursday 17 2018 at 12 noon will be refunded, less an administration fee of $55 including GST.
• Cancellations received after Thursday 17 2018 at 12 noon are not refundable.
• Exceptions are at the discretion of the PGAV.
The PGAV wishes to thank all of the Presentation Partners for Making Your Gallery Inclusive:
Abbotsford Convent, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Arts Access Victoria, Arts Project Australia, Centre for Contemporary Photography,
Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Multicultural Arts Victoria and Words for Art.You can also read
