Staff

Executive Director
Tamara Winikoff is the Executive Director of NAVA and is well known in Australia as an arts advocate, cultural commentator and senior arts manager. She has been involved in arts management for over twenty-five years and has spoken, written and published extensively about cultural and design issues.

In 2004 she was awarded the Australia Council's Visual Arts/Craft Emeritus Medal for "outstanding achievement and contribution to the visual arts and craft in Australia".

Previously Tamara worked at the Australia Council developing the Community, Environment, Art and Design (CEAD) program, was Director of the Australian Centre for Photography founding the journal 'Photofile', and worked at the Power Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Sydney. She also has served on many boards and committees.

Tamara has interspersed these roles with work as an academic, teaching at the University of Sydney and Macquarie University in Sydney and the Oxford Polytechnic in the UK. She has been a chief investigator in three major research projects funded by the Australian Research Council and the Australia Council analysing the art industry and making recommendations for change.

She originally trained and worked as an architect, spending some time as a dig architect on archaeological excavations around the Middle East. She has sustained a lifelong love of the arts, in her earlier years working as a graphic and theatre designer, printmaker, photographer and film-maker. 

General Manager
Emma Thomson is a practising photomedia artist and an experienced arts administrator, having most recently been Administration Manager at ReelDance, the national organisation supporting innovative practice across the disciplinary boundaries of dance, film and new media art. In 2008 Emma completed her Honours degree at the National Art School, Sydney and was invited to join the MOP committee, an artist-run initiative in Sydney. She has exhibited in a number of national group exhibitions and held two solo shows. Emma has won several awards and prizes including the Storrier Onslow NAS Paris Studio Residency, the Joel Corrigan Memorial Prize for Photography awarded by Pat Corrigan and the 2009 National Photographic Portrait Prize. Emma is currently an artist in residence at Hazelhurst Regional Arts Centre, Gymea, commissioned to shoot Shire couples for an exhibition in March 2011.

Brokerage and Strategy Manager
Brianna Munting is the Projects and Strategy Manager for the National Association for the Visual Arts. She has previously held the positions of Curator for the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre and Assistant Curator at Gallery 4a. Her work has always focused on highlighting and valuing the arts and arts practitioners who generate innovation, inspiration and social change. She continues to be interested and involved in places, projects and events that inspire difference, in rethinking the significance and meaning of visual art in Australia. She has completed a BA in Communications Social Inquiry at UTS and a Masters in Art Administration at COFA, UNSW.

Promotions and Marketing Coordinator
Micaela Giffney is NAVA’s Promotions Coordinator, who since graduating from the National Art School in 2005 has been working within a number of arts organisations. Micaela’s most recent employment was as a Manager Curator at Nutcote, a Historic House Museum. Prior to that Micaela worked as a Visitor Services Officer and Casual Team Leader at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Micaela is currently studying Arts Administration part-time at UNSW-COFA.

Online Communications Coordinator
Kimberley Hirst is the Online Communications Coordinator for NAVA. She previously worked as Programme Assistant at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK) where she worked on the organisation, delivery and online promotion of exhibitions and events. She is particularly interested in public art works and their role in place-making. Kimberley has an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester (UK) and a BA in American and English Studies from the University of Nottingham (UK).

Administration and Membership Officer
Harriet Body is NAVA’s Membership and Administration Officer, committee member of Sydney Artist Run Initiative MOP Projects, and practising visual artist. Her art practice is concerned with the performance of creation. Harriet completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours last year at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney.

Finance Officer
Over the past 14 years, Linda Luke has worked as a finance/accounts consultant for numerous arts organisations. Linda currently works with National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA); Performing Lines Ltd and Artful Management. Previous clients include Sydney Festival, PACT youth theatre, ReelDance Inc., Polyglot Puppet Theatre, Performance Space, CarriageWorks, Museums Australia, and marketing management firms DKM and DK Blue. Linda is also an dancer and performance maker and is an ensemble member of dance company De Quincey Company. She has a BA in Communication from the University of Technology Sydney.