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Carol
Atwell, Melbourne
Carol is the Director of Brecknock Consulting's Melbourne office
and is responsible of overseeing all cultural planning and public
art projects in Victoria. She was previously responsible for arts
and cultural development at the City of Melbourne for over fifteen
years. While at the City of Melbourne, Carol was instrumental in
developing Melbourne's public art program and placing it at the
forefront of public art activity in Australia. Carol's work included
the development of Melbourne's first public art policy and the Melbourne
City Council's commitment to Percent for Art.
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
Richard has an MA in Cultural & Media Policy and is a Cultural
Planning and Urban Art Consultant. His consulting has focused on
the areas of cultural planning and policy projects and integrated
art and urban design projects. He has undertaken consulting work
for state and local government and corporate sector clients throughout
Australia.
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.
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Beth Jackson, Curator, National
Beth is a contemporary art curator who has a specialist focus in
public art practice and cultural engagement with the public realm.
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 has provided project management and the overseeing of a wide
range of cultural planning and public art projects in most Australian
states over the last nine years. Adey has been involved in establishing,
providing training and updating the company’s quality assurance
systems across all states and has undertaken the Engineering Education
Australia project management training. She has also applied her
design skills to enhance the presentation and branding of all company
visual materials including reports and the website.
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.

Adelaide
Office
46 Magill Road
Norwood
South Australia 5000
Phone: +61 8
8362 4300
Fax: +61 8 8362 9611
sa@brecknockconsulting.com.au
Brisbane
Office
86 Lytton Road
PO Box 7574
East Brisbane
Queensland 4169
Phone: +61 7
3895 8355
Fax: +61 7 3895 8922
qld@brecknockconsulting.com.au
Melbourne Office
PO Box 289
Batman
Victoria 3058
Phone: +61 3
9354 4626
Fax: +61 3 9354 4656
vic@brecknockconsulting.com.au
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