Foundation Annual Report 2018–19 Foundation Annual Report 2018 –19 4 CONTENTS Chair’s address 6 Chair’s report 8 Foundation overview Foundation Board 15 About the Foundation 16 Support Ways of giving 18 Members 20 Donors 2018–19 40 Select gifts 48 Financial statements Directors’ report 80 Financial statements 90 Notes 94 Directors’ declaration 96 Independent auditor’s report 97 National Gallery of Australia Foundation Annual Report 2018–19 5 CHAIR’S ADDRESS I am delighted to be writing in my capacity his continued support of the Gallery’s learning as the newly appointed Chair of the National and access programs. Gallery of Australia Foundation. Since 1983, the Leading up to the fortieth anniversary of the Foundation and its members have continued an National Gallery of Australia in 2022, we review extraordinary legacy of philanthropic support. where we have come from and all that we Your generosity has enabled the acquisition have achieved, including the successes of the of significant works of art for the national Foundation. I look upon previous fundraising collection and the presentation of outstanding campaigns such as 100 Works for 100 Years and exhibitions and award-winning learning and Founding Donors 2010 as exemplary and thank access programs at the National Gallery and all donors to those campaigns, and so many Australia-wide. others, for their generosity. I am honoured to serve as the eighth chair of My aspiration as Chair is to continue the great the Foundation and look forward to working legacy of past fundraising initiatives by marking closely with the Director, the Foundation’s the Gallery’s upcoming fortieth anniversary with recently appointed Deputy Chair Philip Bacon a major fundraising program to be launched AM, our fellow Foundation Board directors and in mid 2020. The ambition of this campaign will be to provide future financial stability for the Gallery team to help achieve the fundraising the Gallery, benefitting ambitious projects, ambitions of this great institution. exhibitions, acquisitions and programs for all Now, more than ever, fundraising is an essential Australians. I look forward to sharing more part of the cultural sector, and your support information on this fundraising project in the asserts the role of the Gallery as a vital part of new year. the cultural life of all Australians. It is through Reflecting on the year that was, I wish to philanthropic support that the Gallery can acknowledge the incredible work of former chair continue to lead a progressive cultural agenda of the Foundation John Hindmarsh AM. John’s that champions artists and art in our lives. tenure was extremely successful and a major Through gifts of cash or works of art to the legacy for his time here at the Gallery. I am Foundation, we encourage everyone to be a part delighted that John will continue as a director of our family of supporters. of the Foundation Board and eagerly anticipate One key fundraising priority for the next year is working with him toward future fundraising Know My Name, a landmark campaign that aims successes. to celebrate Australian women artists and help As we look to the future, it is evident that the redress the gender imbalance on gallery walls support of our friends, both old and new, will be and in art collections, both public and private. pivotal to our success. I look forward to working This is a transformative, multifaceted project, with the Board and our family of supporters that sets the agenda for a national conversation to continue to grow the Gallery’s fundraising on gender equality in the arts. Know My Name achievements. Our fundraising ambitions are will include artist commissions, a substantial great, as they should be, and we are looking publication, public advocacy through a national to patrons to continue their support of the awareness program, independent research and Gallery and its vision to inspire every Australian a series of major exhibitions at the Gallery in to experience creativity and learning through 2020 surveying Australian women artists (with art. Thank you for your ongoing support of the Foundation. plans to tour components of these exhibitions throughout Australia in 2021 and 2022). We intend for this project to continue to build Stephen Brady AO, CVO momentum and help amend the clear inequity Chair, National Gallery of Australia Foundation women artists experience in our country. I acknowledge and thank Foundation director Tim Fairfax AC for being the first to show his significant support for Know My Name and for 6 Chair’s address National Gallery of Australia Foundation Annual Report 2018–19 7 CHAIR’S REPORT It is my great pleasure to present the National making space that opened in October 2019, will Gallery of Australia Foundation Annual Report make the national collection more accessible 2018–19. With this publication, we are able to to audiences through a dedicated program acknowledge and celebrate our committed of exhibitions, workshops and events that family of supporters who, through their encourage lifelong learning. generosity, enable the Foundation to continue In another act of exceptional generosity, Tim helping the National Gallery of Australia to became the first Ambassador Patron for pursue its ambitious goals. the Know My Name campaign, the Gallery’s In 2018–19, the Foundation received donations of groundbreaking initiative to celebrate and cash and works of art with a combined value of champion Australian women artists. $13.075 million. With this generous support the Bridgestar, James Fairfax AC’s estate and National Gallery was able to continue leading a former company, has continued its support progressive national cultural agenda by acquiring of the refurbishment of the James Fairfax significant works of art for the national Theatre. James was a founding member of the collection, presenting outstanding exhibitions Foundation and gave considerably throughout and engaging audiences through an extensive his life. I am delighted to report that the range of learning and access programs. refurbishment of the James Fairfax Theatre will Artists, Foundation donors and established art be completed by early 2020 and that this space collectors gave works of art in all mediums and will continue to represent the legacy of this collecting areas, many of which were donated great friend and benefactor. through the Australian Government’s Cultural Foundation Board director Andrew Gwinnett Gifts Program, which recognises the cultural and Hiroko Gwinnett finalised their pledge significance of such gifts and the value they towards the acquisition of Yayoi Kusama’s bring to Australia’s national collection. extraordinary THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS Danie Mellor’s Landstory 2018, the exceptional DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS 2017. This work that features on the front cover of this ‘infinity room’ has quickly become one of our report, was acquired through the generosity most popular destination works for visitors of all of more than 650 campaign donations. ages, generating a sense of wonder and delight A selection of works of art acquired as gifts or in all who experience it. I warmly thank Andrew with donations to fundraising campaigns are and Hiroko for their incredible generosity in illustrated on pages 49–78. support of this monumental work of art. Other significant gifts were made by Kerr Major donations and gifts Neilson, through the Neilson Foundation, whose In 2018–19, the National Gallery was honoured generosity supported the presentation of our that Tim Fairfax AC continued his support of winter blockbuster exhibition Monet: Impression the Gallery’s learning and access programs for Sunrise. Maurice Cashmere and Claire Parkhurst younger audiences in honour of former National contributed toward last year’s acquisition of Gallery director Betty Churcher AO. Further to Arthur Streeton’s The Point Wharf, Mosman this, with an additional visionary gift made in Bay 1893 in memory of their mother Sarah June 2018, Tim became the Gallery’s inaugural Cashmere. We are especially thankful to those supporter of our digital presence for younger donors who have made substantial contributions audiences. As part of this gift, the Gallery that support many projects, programs and initiated a teen program, Art IRL (In Real Life), acquisitions: De Lambert Largesse Foundation, and recruited a new Tim Fairfax Teen Producer Jennifer Manton, Susan Maple-Brown AM, to help develop learning and social activities for Fiona Martin-Weber and Tom Hayward, David teens at the Gallery. Paul and Alison Creagh, Andrew and Judith In May 2019, the Gallery proudly launched the Rogers, Lyn Williams AM, Helen Cook and the first exhibition in the Tim Fairfax Learning McKibbin family. Gallery, Body Language. This gallery and the This year’s Foundation Gala was the most adjoining Tim Fairfax Studio, a creative- successful in its history and, through the 8 Chair's report generosity of donors, the Foundation Gala artist Mieke Groot given in memory of Dr Robert Dinner Fund raised over $392,000 toward the Bell AM, former senior curator of Decorative acquisition of Francesco 2017, a major work by Arts and Design. Swiss artist Urs Fischer. In 2018, the Gallery celebrated Robert’s life In addition, all areas of the collection benefitted and legacy with a memorial event for family, from the generosity of donors and artists who colleagues and friends. Robert’s commitment to gave gifts of works of art. Simon Mordant AM decorative arts and design was widely admired and Catriona Mordant AM donated Gemma and celebrated, and we are very grateful to his Smith’s sculptural Boulder #2 2008. John wife Dr Eugenie Keefer-Bell for continuing his Davis’s large installation River 1998, a work legacy with seed funding toward the Robert and that featured in his final exhibition, was a Eugenie Bell Decorative Arts and Design Fund. gift from Penelope and Martin Davis.