NAVA Board

Current Board

Chair:

Ian Howard (NSW)

Elected members:

Frederick Clise (SA)
Alexie Glass Kantor (VIC)
Timothy Morrell (QLD)
Aaron Seeto (NSW) 
Julie Shiels (VIC)

Co-opted members:                                                                                                                                   

Simeon Beckett (NSW)
Joyce Parszos (NSW)
Jenny Yvonne Wong (NSW)                                                                                                                                    

Treasurer and Company Secretary:

Dina Madorsky (NSW)

Ian Howard
Ian Howard is the current Chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). He is Dean of the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and previously was Provost and Director, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, 1992-1998. He is also a current member of the Churchill Fellowship Committee (NSW), and previously was a member of Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, Director of the Board of the Australian Centre for Photography and Chairperson of the State Government Visual Arts Committee, Arts Queensland.  

Ian has been a practising artist since 1968, concentrating on the theme of the relationship between civilian and military cultures, and their material and symbolic products, and for this purpose has traveled extensively in Eastern Europe, Asia, US and the Middle East. He regularly exhibits work nationally and internationally and is represented in collections in regional, state, national and international galleries. Ian trained as an artist and art educator in Sydney (Diploma of Art Education), London (Graduate Diploma of Advanced Studies, Film and Television) and Montreal (Master of Fine Arts). He has taught visual arts at secondary and tertiary levels in Australia, England, USA and Canada.

Frederick Clise
Frederick Clise is an Adelaide-based visual artist currently specialising in making metal sculpture. Prior to developing his arts practice in 2003 he worked in the Information Technology sector at companies including Apple Computer, and Microsoft, in technical, sales and management roles. Even earlier, he worked in the Australian film and television industry as a freelance crewmember, and in the offshore oil industry operating and repairing a remote operated vehicle. Frederick has a Master of Business Administration degree from Adelaide University; a Graduate Diploma in Robotics; and an Associate of Arts degree. He is currently completing a Diploma of Civil Engineering at TAFE. He has practical experience as a board director gained by serving on voluntary boards, and has been actively involved in managing governance issues in his most recent directorship. Frederick migrated to Australia from the United States in 1979.

Alexie Glass-Kantor
Alexie Glass-Kantor is Director and Senior Curator of Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. Prior to her directorship at Gertrude Contemporary Glass-Kantor was in Curatorial at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and has had holding positions in state institutions, independent spaces, festivals and the commercial sector. As a curator or collaborator on more than forty exhibitions she has contributed to recent projects at institutions, including: Artsonje Centre, Seoul (2011); Independent Curators International (iCI), New York (2010); Iberia Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2010); Magazzino D'arte Moderna, Rome (2009); Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney (2009); National University of Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2008–09); SITE Santa Fe Biennial, New Mexico (2008); Petronas Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007); and Gertrude Contemporary (2003 to present). Glass-Kantor regularly contributes to symposiums, forums, and journals throughout the Asia-Pacific region; was the Asialink curator-in-residence at Ssamzie Space, Seoul (2005); alumni of the Asialink Leadership Program (2006); and is co-curator with Natasha Bullock of the Adelaide Biennial 2012.

Timothy Morrell
Timothy Morrell has worked as a curator within the public art gallery system and independently; on big international projects and tiny regional ones. Through past study and work in Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide he has strong professional connections beyond Queensland, where he now resides. Through working regulary with Brisbane-based indigenous artists, many of whom are noted for their political astuteness, Timothy is continually alerted to their aims and opinions. Timothy has also worked as an art writer throughout Australia.

Aaron Seeto
Aaron Seeto is the Director of the Asia-Australia Arts Centre (Gallery 4A) and also a practising artist. He has a considerable working knowledge of cultural diversity in the contemporary arts. Much of the current research and thinking at the Asia-Australia Arts Centre responds to the significant cultural shifts occurring around us, thinking through both cultural and generational change. Through his work at the Asia-Australia Arts Centre and other Asia-Pacific projects Aaron has curated exhibitions such as 'News From Islands', at the Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Julie Shiels
Julie Shiels has been a practising artist for over twenty years and is a researcher and sessional lecturer in Art and Public Space at RMIT University where she completed her Masters of Art in 2006. Julie makes work for the Gallery and public space, including the web. Her practice includes installation and photography but she also stencils discarded furniture in the street with quotes, truisms and stories. Julie’s most recent shows were Sleeper at Monash Gallery of Art, and Rubbish Theory at Platform. Her most recent project Cusp, funded by emerging artist grant from the Australia Council for the Arts will be exhibited at RMIT Projects Space in June 2010. Julie’s work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Victoria and the Powerhouse Museum.

Simeon Beckett
Simeon Beckett has practised as a barrister in Sydney for over 12 years specialising in the areas of human rights law, anti-discrimination and administrative law. He was the president of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (2005-2008), is currently on the executive of the Australian Human Rights Group, is a member of the NSW Bar Human Rights Committee and is a board member of Sydney PEN. He teaches in the Masters Program at Sydney University Law School and was an adviser to the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the Keating government during Mabo and the Native Title Act 1993. Before that he was a solicitor with the Central Land Council in Alice Springs. 

Joyce Parszos
Joyce Parszos has worked as a communications and marketing professional for more than 25 years. Joyce was the first Public Relations and Development Manager of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) at Circular Quay in Sydney, and as part of a small team played a key role in the seminal phase of the development of this major Australian art institution. Joyce has provided mentoring services to young professionals through many ‘not for profit’ organisations and has served and continues to serve as a Director on a number of Boards. In addition Joyce has been a national judge in programs recognising communications, marketing and sponsorship expertise.  These have included the Australian Financial Review Magazine Partnership Awards and the NSW State Government’s Australian Multicultural Business Awards.

Jenny Yvonne Wong
Jenny Yvonne Wong has had over 15 years experience in professional practice as a Chartered Accountant. She is currently a Director at KPMG’s Australian Tax Centre, specialising in Government policy, lobbying, advocacy and developments on matters related to Australian taxation. Jenny is a member of several Treasury and Australian Taxation Office (ATO) consultative groups and is also a Board Director for Hearts4heart (H4h), a not-for-profit organisation that enables patients, friends and families affected by heart disease to connect with one another. Jenny is currently doing a Masters in International Tax at the University of Sydney.

Dina Madorsky
Dina Madorsky is a qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAA) who has worked in the financial sector for over six years. She is currently a Project Accountant for Thales Australia, an international electronics and systems group, at which she manages the financial information for a large portfolio of projects. Prior to this Dina worked as an auditor for the international firm KPMG. Dina has also been involved in organising a number of local community, university and work related charity and social events, including the Australian University Jewish Society's (AUJS) stage productions, which raised funds for Aboriginal communities in Northern NSW and QLD. Dina has always had a passion for the arts, acting in a number of stage productions throughout school and university. DIna is currently undertaking a Masters in Business Administration at UNSW.