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Appointment to Australia Council’s Visual Arts Board

The Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp, today announced the appointment of Robyn Stacey to the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts for a three-year term.

“Ms Stacey is a talented and experienced photographer and digital imaging artist who has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally,” Senator Kemp said.

“Her extensive knowledge and experience make her an ideal appointment to the Visual Arts Board.”

Robyn Stacey’s works are held in the collections of Artbank, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Queensland Art Gallery, as well as numerous universities, corporate and private collections.

Ms Stacey is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney and in 2004, was awarded a Visual Arts Board New Work Grant to create photographic and digital works based on natural history collections. She is currently researching and photographing the Macleay Collection at Sydney University to produce a series of exhibitions in 2005–2007 and a publication with Cambridge University Press in 2007.

Ms Stacey held the roles of artist-in-residence at the University of Leiden, Netherlands (2003), the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (2002) and the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney (2001). In 2004, Cambridge University Press published Herbarium based on her interpretation of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ collection. Her work is studied as part of high school visual design, art, digital media and photography curricula in New South Wales and Victoria.

The Visual Arts Board supports the creation, interpretation and presentation of contemporary Australian visual arts and craft. It values the traditions and capacity for innovation that exist in Australia’s culturally diverse society.

See www.ozco.gov.au/boards/visual_arts for further information.

MELBOURNE
20 December 2005
Media contact: Michael Christo, Minister’s Office 03 9650 7274 or 0409 040276