Annual Report 2013–14 Chair’S Report
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Art Gallery of Ballarat Annual Report13–14 Annual Report 2013–14 Chair’s Report .................................................................................................4 Director’s Report ...........................................................................................6 Association Report .......................................................................................8 Gallery Guides Report .............................................................................10 Adopt an Artwork.......................................................................................12 Donations, Gifts, and Bequests .........................................................14 Acquisitions .................................................................................................16 Outward Loans..............................................................................................38 Exhibitions ...................................................................................................26 For Auld Lang Syne..................................................................30 Touring Exhibitions ...................................................................................34 Publications............................................................................42 Education Report .......................................................................................44 Public Programs ..........................................................................................50 Gallery Staff and Volunteers ..............................................................57 Visitation.....................................................................57 Board Members ...........................................................................................58 Budget Summaries ...................................................................................60 ISSN 0726-5530 Art Gallery of Ballarat ACN: 145 246 224 ABN: 28 145 246 224 40 Lydiard Street North Ballarat Victoria 3350 T 03 5320 5858 F 03 5320 5791 [email protected] www.artgalleryofballarat.com.au Vision The Art Gallery of Ballarat where Art Inspires, Stimulates and Challenges Mission To foster and enrich the cultural life of our city, our region and the Nation by acquiring, conserving and presenting a great collection of art. Image: H Moser [unknown man in full Highland dress] (detail) circa1870 photograph. Private collection. For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Scottish Australia from First Fleet to Federation 11 April – 27 July 2014 The first of the milestones I will comment on is the Chair’s Report completion and review of the Board’s inaugural Strategic Plan (2011–13). The review process during 2014 has been Art Gallery of Ballarat Board of Directors extremely useful in not only highlighting key areas of progress but also identifying strategic directions for the next A Year of Milestones for the Gallery five years. In developing it, Board members have consulted widely within and beyond the community. As a Board, Preparing the Annual Report on behalf of the Board of we have been most fortunate to have available industry Directors always provides the opportunity to reflect on the expertise to shape these directions. The Strategic Plan for past twelve months in the life of Gallery. While the key role 2014–18, to be launched at the Annual General Meeting, has of the Board is to determine policy direction and monitor four pillars that focus on the theme of Building for the Future. implementation, the really exciting aspect is observing what It will be accessible from the Gallery website. is taking place in the gallery itself. With the completion of the inaugural Strategic Plan The number of exhibitions contributing to Australian art during 2013, the Board of Directors, through the work of scholarship and related programs has once again been the Director and the Gallery team, has remained strongly committed to its Vision and Mission: a review of the astonishing. The number of curated exhibitions presented I have made reference to a number of key stakeholders maintain and enhance its unique place in the Australian arts exhibition schedule, the extensive conservation program during the past twelve months has reaffirmed its status as within the Gallery community, and it is important in this profile. and the acquisition program during this report period are Australia’s most important gallery outside the metropolitan place to acknowledge the ongoing work of the Art Gallery testimony to this commitment. region. The Gallery’s importance in these areas was of Ballarat Foundation. Substantial work and time has I would also like to thank the very committed and skilled highlighted at the Regional Galleries forum which the Board been invested in developing the bequests program, The Gallery staff for their dedicated work, and acknowledge initiated at the Gallery in July. It is well worth the time in This report coincides with a series of other important Art of Giving. This program, which has already attracted the work of the Gallery Education Officers, who once again examining the exhibition schedule as listed in this Annual milestones: considerable interest, stands beside the very successful register record numbers of students attending a regional Report to fully appreciate the work undertaken by the staff. gallery in Australia. Most significantly the Gallery Association has celebrated its Adopt an Artwork. Bequests can be directed to a variety of areas of gallery activities and provide Australian Tax Following the outstanding Capturing Flora exhibition, the 130th Anniversary, an extraordinary milestone correlating Office benefits for donors. The Foundation is committed Finally, I thank my fellow Art Gallery of Ballarat Board gallery team under the mercurial guidance of the Director with the foundation of the gallery. The Association, with its to support the Boards’ Strategic Plan to expand the gallery of Directors for their dedicated work in implementing mounted an equally ambitious exhibition, For Auld Lang 1,700-strong membership, is an extraordinary supporter of the Strategic Plan, development of the new Plan and building footprint into the future. Syne: Images of Scottish Australia from First Fleet to Federation. every facet of the Gallery’s work. The Association will mark governance compliance. Covering the majority of the temporary exhibition spaces, this significant anniversary in number of ways that enhance The Gallery is indebted to all these groups who give time this was a survey exhibition on a grand scale, magnificently the Gallery experience. This Annual Report coincides with the completion of my voluntarily to ably support and champion the Gallery — presenting works sourced both internationally and from decade of service on the Art Gallery of Ballarat Board. I wish throughout Australia. Once again the exhibition was For many Gallery visitors, the well-researched and the Gallery Guides, the Women’s Association, the Gallery the Board the very best in implementing the forthcoming accompanied by a magnificent catalogue of academic informative guided tours are a highlight. The Gallery Guides Association, continuing its strong tradition of support as Strategic Plan 2014–18. importance. Not to rest on their laurels, the gallery team are a most dedicated team who celebrated their twenty- it has for the past 130 years, and the Art Gallery of Ballarat created the Ballarat Tartan and registered it on the Scottish fifth anniversary this year. As part of their celebrations, they Foundation. Garry Taylor Register of Tartans, another of the lasting legacies of the prepared a very impressive exhibition of ‘favourites’ from Chair exhibition. I single out this exhibition for the extensive the Gallery collection. Similarly, the Women’s Association To mention another milestone, this year our Director marks programming, as it highlights the dedicated and creative provide another important dimension to the gallery ten years in his role. Gordon Morrison has been responsible Image: Art Gallery of Ballarat Director Gordon Morrison; Dr Gerard Vaughan AM talents of the gallery team under the leadership of Gordon experience through the wonderful Last Sunday of the for an extraordinary range of developments and initiatives, FAHA, recently retired Director of the National Gallery of Victoria; and Garry Taylor, Morrison. Month Concert program. providing inspiring leadership to enable the Gallery to Chair AGB Board at the forum for Western Victoria Regional Galleries, July 2014 4 5 Director’s Report Towards the end of this financial year the Art Gallery of development of Australia, For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Gallery, which was so completely overhauled four years ago, portfolios the Gallery is positioned, for the support they Ballarat turned 130, but that was the culmination of an Scottish Australia from First Fleet to Federation. This exhibition has gone through a period of consolidation. Likewise, thanks have given me and the institution. extraordinary season of exhibitions and other public was a tour de force: far and away the largest and most to all members of the Board who have given so freely of programs, ushered in by a retrospective for the significant ambitious project that this gallery has ever undertaken and their time. On a personal note, February 2014 marked my tenth Melbourne artist Robert Clinch. quite possibly the most complex exhibition ever mounted anniversary as Director. It has been an extraordinary honour by a regional gallery in Australia.