Art Gallery Of Western Australia Director

The art gallery of western australia agwa is a public state art gallery that is part of the perth cultural centre in perth it is located near the western australian museum and state library of western australia and is supported and managed by the department of local government sport and cultural industries of the government of western australia.

Art gallery of western australia director.

Clarissa is currently the head of department of fine arts and history of art at the university of western australia where she is also the director of the institute of advanced studies. Primary purpose of the role. Wa s new art gallery director colin walker wants to transform it into a social media friendly space supplied. Dr stefano carboni comes to perth direct from his role as the curator and administrator of the department of islamic art at the metropolitan museum of art in new york.

And informed by the minister and policies and priorities of the government of the day. Art gallery of western australia meet colin walker the new director of the art gallery of wa on breakfast with nadia mitsopoulos and russell woolf colin walker wants to take the art gallery of wa in an entirely new direction. In 2018 she was appointed to the position of deputy director of the international consortium university based institutes of advanced studies. Culture and the arts minister david templeman has today announced a new interim leadership team will oversee the art gallery of western australia for a six month period.

The director provides executive leadership for agwa and stewardship for the visual arts sector in western australia. The interim leadership team will work with the art gallery s board during the recruitment process for a new permanent director. The role is responsible for the sound management of agwa considering the guiding principles of the art gallery act 1959and policy as determined by the board of the art gallery of western australia. Senior government arts executive colin walker will act as chief executive officer managing administration of the gallery from july 23 2019.

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