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COLLECTORS PANEL
13 May 2010
Speakers:
ANTONY BOND / Assistant Director, Head Curator of International Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
GEOFFREY CASSIDY / Director, Artbank, Sydney
RHANA DEVENPORT / Director, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ
STUART EVANS / Director and Curator of the Lodeavans Collection, Curator of the Simmons & Simmons collection, London
DICK QUAN / Collector and Physician, Sydney
JOHNNIE WALKER / Director, A.R.T. Tokyo, Japan
ANNA WALDMANN / Art Advisor, former Director of Visual Arts, Australia Council
MARK WAUGH / Executive Director, A Foundation, London and Liverpool
Institutions, private collectors and corporate collectors talk about their different perspectives on collecting non-object-based art.
SPEAKERS:
ANTONY BOND
Anthony Bond is currently Assistant Director Curatorial at the Art Gallery of NSW where he has been responsible for collecting International contemporary art since 1984. He has curated many projects at AGNSW in those years. Major exhibitions include: The British Show at AGNSW and touring (1984-85), Australian Perspecta (1985, 87 and 89). The 9th Sydney Biennale Boundary Rider (1992-93), Tony Cragg (1997), TRACE the inaugural Liverpool Biennale of Contemporary International Art 1999. He has also curated historical exhibitions such as Body 1997 and Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary for the National Portrait Gallery London and AGNSW Sydney 2005-6. Anselm Kiefer Aperiatur terra with accompanying book was launched in London in January at White Cube and in AGNSW May 2007. Mike Parr, The Tilted Stage a major survey at TMAG and Detached in Hobart November 2008. He is currently working on a survey of forty years of John Kaldor projects at AGNSW and preparing for a major series of exhibitions with the Kaldor collection and Contemporary AGNSW collections starting 2011. His major future project is Kurt Schwitters (2012) at AGNSW.
GEOFFREY CASSIDY
Geoffrey Cassidy is the Director of Artbank, a Commonwealth Government’s arts support initiative. In operation for 30 years. Artbanks brief is twofold, to provide support for living Australian artists and their practice through the purchase of their work and to encourage the wider appreciation of contemporary art practice by making this work available to the wider public through its art rental scheme. Artbanks success has enabled it to become self-funding, with profits from the scheme supporting the purchase of new work exclusively through the primary market, ensuring the maximum benefit to the artist. Prior to Artbank Geoffrey was at Sotheby’s Australia where he had over nine years experience as a senior paintings specialist, the last two as National Head of Paintings and an International Director of the company. A graduate in both Fine Arts and Law from the University of Queensland, his experience prior to Sotheby’s included managing a commercial contemporary gallery and experience as a solicitor in both the public and private sectors. Geoffrey’s particular interest and expertise is in contemporary Australian and Chinese art. He is active in industry associations and is a member of the Committee on Tax Incentives for the Arts and is often a guest speaker and lecturer for various educational and Arts organisations.
Rhana Devenport is Director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in Aotearoa New Zealand. She previously worked with the Biennale of Sydney (2006) and the Sydney Festival (2004), and was Co-curator and Senior Project Officer with the Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery (1994 to 2004). Rhana has worked extensively with artists in Asia and the Pacific region as a writer, editor and curator, producing major projects with Nam June Paik, Lisa Reihana, Nalini Malani, Judith Wright, Lee Mingwei, Jin Jiangbo, Bill Culbert, Peter Robinson, Zhang Peili and John Reynolds.
STUART EVANS
Stuart Evans was a partner in the international law firm Simmons & Simmons 1981 – 2008 and curates the Simmons & Simmons Collection of Contemporary Art. He was formerly Chairman of the Patrons of New Art at the Tate Gallery and a Turner Prize juror in 2001. He has been building the Lodeavans Collection with his son John since 2006. Committed to collecting contemporary art, focusing on young artists working across varying media, the Lodeveans Collection aims to be publicly accessible by making loans and organising exhibitions.
DICK QUAN
Dr. Dick Quan is a tireless proselytizer of new talent and new forms, and a new breed of collector/patron. His early support for ‘art photography’ more than a decade ago set the scene for the rise of people like Tracey Moffatt and Patricia Piccinini while his membership on numerous arts boards around the city including Gallery 4A and the AGNSW Contemporary Benefactors means that he can summon up institutional support for his passions giving artists access to collectors and exhibition space. Dr. Quan’s vigorous support for new media art promises to break open a whole new area of serious art collecting. With a collection boasting the most recent major works by high callibre artists such as the Russian AES+F, he is at the forefront of brining the most contemporary and innovative art to Australia.
JONNIE WALKER
A.R.T., Artist Residency Tokyo, in an effort to keep alive the tradition of Japanese influence in contemporary arts and architecture has for twenty years provided spaces for exhibitions, film screenings, performances, book launchings, promotional events, and residencies. A.R.T. has produced events with little known names and institutions, to such names as Gilbert and George, Francesco Clemente, Joseph Kosuth, Tracey Emin, Tracey Moffat, Jenny Holzer, Yayoi Kusama, the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Tate Gallery, Kunsthalle Wein, the Powerplant in Toronto, the Asia-Pacific Triennale in Brisbane, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Venice Biennale. A.R.T. has provided residencies for a number of institutions, including the Tate Gallery, the de Menil Collection, the French government agency A.F.A.A., the Japan Foundation, and an architect in residency from U.C. Berkeley sponsored by the Ohbayashi Construction Co. Foundation. In addition, Johnnie Walker acts as adviser to a number of prominent collectors and gallerists, jumpstarting the careers of many emerging artists and bringing countless important international art figures to Japan.
ANNA WALDMANN
Anna Waldmann was Director of Visual Arts at the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory organisation. She has an MA in Fine Arts from the University of Sydney. Anna has been a member of numerous art and cultural committees, judged competitions, lectured to university students and published books, catalogues and articles on Australian and European art such as The Archibald Prize Retrospective, Salvatore Zofrea, Desiderius Orban and Selected Students, Women’s Imprint, Salon and Académie, Hidden Treasures – Art in Corporate Collections. Before joining the Australia Council, Anna Waldmann worked as a curator at the Art Gallery of NSW and as Program Manager (Visual Arts and Crafts and Museums and Galleries) at the NSW Ministry for the Arts. Anna was involved in numerous international exhibitions and events such as the Australian representation at the Venice Biennale, the Sao Paulo, Berlin, Liverpool, Kwangju and Istanbul biennales, Documenta and ARCO Madrid. She has worked with art museums, galleries, craft/design organisations, contemporary art spaces and funding agencies on policy and program development, exhibition management, research and publications. Anna is currently an art adviser and consultant, on the Editorial Advisory Board of Art & Australia; National and International Art Adviser for the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation; and Visiting Fellow at the College of Fine Arts University of NSW.
MARK WAUGH
He is currently Executive Director of A Foundation, producer of the International Curators Forum and chair of Spacex Gallery. He has produced and directed numerous artistic projects including: Power of Art (2006), Private View (2005), Preset Softwar (1998), and die lieber rausch no.1 (1997). He has also curated various symposia, festivals and exhibitions including Pan European Encounters: Venice (2007), We Love You (2004) Transmutations (1995), Pharmakon (1993), Leonardo Seduce Me (1987), Another Banana (1986). His first novel Come was published by Pulp Faction in 1997. His second novel Bubble Entendre was published by Bookworks in 2009.
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