Carol
Atwell, Melbourne In addition to her consulting work Carol has made a significant contribution to not for profit organisations such as the Urban Art Forum, Arts Victoria's Art in Public Spaces Committee and continues to be a member of the National Trust [Victoria] Public Art Committee. She has been a regular presenter at forums and conferences in Victoria. She has been involved in a wide range of urban design and planning projects including public art master planning for private development clients such as Mirvac and Lend Lease. Local government planning projects include a whole of city urban art master plan for the Rural City of Wodonga. Carol has also developed considerable experience in project managing numerous public art commissions utilising a variety of project models. The Manningham Gateway Sculpture "River Peel", managed by Carol, won the Royal Australian Institute of Architects [VIC Chapter] Award of Merit for Urban Design 2001. Carol has considerable experience in the development of cultural and arts policy. She has been involved in the preparation of a Public Art Policy for the Moonee Valley City Council, developed a Public Art Strategy and Action Plan for Hobsons Bay City Council and a Future Directions document for cultural services for the City of Manningham. She was project director for the "Past-Present-Future: Cultural Strategy" for the Greater City of Bendigo and policies for the Victorian cities of Frankston, Manningham, Monash and Casey. Carol is responsible for cultural planning and public art projects in Victoria as well as providing cultural and arts policy advice nationally.
Richard
Brecknock, Adelaide, Brisbane He has been involved in major cultural planning and policy projects such as the Creative Councils program for the Local Government Association of SA in association with the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies at Griffith University. Richard prepared the Cultural Sector Issue Paper for the Adelaide 21 study, a joint initiative of the Adelaide City Council and South Australian government. On this study he was working in association with Charles Landry from COMEDIA, UK. Recent cultural policy projects include a cultural policy titled "Past-Present-Future" for the City of Greater Bendigo, an Arts Strategy for the City of Monash and the Creative City Policy for the Brisbane City Council in association with Charles Landry. His work in the area of public art policy includes undertaking a major review of the Brisbane City Council's public art practices and the development of implementation manuals and strategies. He has recently completed public art policies and strategies for Caloundra City Council, the City of Wodonga and Adelaide City Council and provided policy advice to Christchurch City Council, NZ. Richard has a background as a professional film maker and visual artist prior to establishing Brecknock Consulting in 1988. He has been involved in a wide range of urban design projects around Australia, including Roma Street Parkland and Queen Street Mall art programs in Brisbane and the massive Yarra's Edge project in Melbourne. He has carried out extensive research into public art projects around Australia and internationally. He has been a committee member of the South Australian Government and City of Adelaide Urban Design Advisory Panels, Executive Director of Partners for Liveable Australia, Chair of the South Australian Collaborations Committee and an executive committee member of the Australian Institute of Urban Studies. Richard has written extensively for Australian architectural, urban design and art journals and is the author of "A New Renaissance: Contemporary Art Commissioning" published in 1996. Recent writing includes "Council Culture - Cultural Councils", Media & Cultural Review, Griffith University 2000. He has lectured regularly and presented papers on issues relating to cultural planning and art in the urban environment at national and international conferences. Conferences include; Intersection: A Meeting of Art and Architecture - RAIA National Convention, Adelaide and Art + Architecture - Copenhagen, Denmark during 1996. In 1997 he presented at Cultural Crossroads - Griffith University, Brisbane and Artwork in Public Spaces - Prague, Czech Republic. A New Management For A New Millennium - AIAM, Brisbane, 2000. In 2001 he presented papers at pARTicipate - Americans for the Arts - New York, Waterfronts of Art - Barcelona University, Barcelona and 20th Century Heritage: Our recent cultural legacy - ICOMOS, Adelaide. Note: The links on the articles and papers above are Adobe Acrobat files, if you do not currently have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, click on the following link for a free download.
Beth Jackson, Curator, National Beth has an extensive knowledge of contemporary art practice and practitioners, nationally and internationally, and is well regarded by artists. In her curatorial role, Beth is able to assist artists in the development of their ideas and the translation of their concepts into the built environment. Beth has developed a sound working knowledge of public art policy frameworks and their implementation, as well as networks with government clients, private sector entities, industry professionals, the visual arts and cultural sectors. Beth has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Field - Art History; graduated 1989, University of Queensland). She is the former Director (1998-2001) and Curator (1993-1998) of Griffith Artworks, a centre within Griffith University responsible for the acquisition, exhibition and management of the Griffith University Art Collection. While at Griffith, Beth directed a diverse and interdisciplinary program including: on-campus exhibition program, artists-in-residence, touring exhibitions, public art commissions, screening programs of video art, publications and arts events. She has held advisory positions for government at state, national and local levels. Prior to joining Brecknock Consulting, Beth worked as an independent consultant curator and project manager in the field of public art, for state and local government clients, including Melbourne Street Subtropical Boulevard Project and Valley Gateway Art Integration Project for Brisbane City Council. In her role as Curator at Brecknock Consulting, Beth is responsible for the identification of art opportunities and development of curatorial rationales and conceptual frameworks. On public art projects, she draws on her extensive knowledge of professional artists and Brecknock Consulting’s national and international artist database to identify appropriate artists for public art projects and to work with the selected artists through the concept development process. She has curated a series of state government projects for Queensland Health including 16 new and refurbished health facilities across south-east Queensland and 9 facilities in remote far north Queensland communities. In addition, Beth has been the curator for a number of streetscape, landscape and transport infrastructure projects for local government and residential property developers. Beth is currently curating major projects in the CBD areas of Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and the Gold Coast which includes residential, retail, commercial office and mixed-use developments. Beth plays a significant role within Brecknock Consulting for public
art master planning projects. In recent years, these have included:
the Brisbane City Centre Public Art Master Plan for Brisbane City
Council; Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens Public Art Master Plan
for the Gold Coast City Council; the Port Waterfront Public Art
Framework for the City of Port Adelaide Enfield; the Wollongong
Public Art Masterplan for the City of Wollongong; and a Public Art
Strategy for Kelvin Grove Urban Village. Adey Brecknock, Manager Project Unit, National Adey's project management experience includes all stages of public art commissioning from the initial preparation of art opportunity reports, artist selection processes, preparation of briefing material for the concept stage and contract administration of fabrication and installation through to the preparation of maintenance manuals. In Queensland, Adey has been involved in a wide range of urban design, architectural and landscape projects and has developed a good understanding of the Art Built-in policy and procedures. She is currently managing the Art Built-in projects for Queensland Health including 16 new and refurbished health facilities across south east Queensland and 9 facilities in remote far north Queensland communities. In Brisbane’s CBD Adey was involved in the project management of both 120 Charlotte Street and M on Mary as part of the BCC Percent for Art requirement. She is currently overseeing the commissioning process for a major artwork installation for the 275 George Street development, for Charter Hall. Project management of public art projects in Melbourne includes the recently completed artwork for 370 Docklands Drive, a new Five-Star Green-Star building in the Melbourne Docklands and the overseeing the artwork commission for 737 Bourke Street, both in-line with VicUrban’s percent for art requirements. Her involvement in South Australia includes public art projects such as Adelaide Showground and the co-ordination of a changing exhibition program for the Adelaide Airport. Other projects include Santos, Holdfast Shores marina and residential development, Riverbank Precinct, Commonwealth Law Courts and Semaphore Road redevelopment. Adey was also project manager on major signage planning and design projects for Adelaide City Council and the River Torrens Linear Park. Adey is also responsible for tracking all company projects to ensure
appropriate resource allocation and efficient and effective management
of projects.
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