2015 ANNUAL REPORT The PGAV is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and receives significant in-kind support from the National Gallery of Victoria. PGAV PURPOSE PGAV BOARD OF MANAGEMENT To support, develop and promote public galleries in Karen Quinlan President Victoria within a national context. Regional Representative Bendigo Art Gallery PGAV MISSION Melinda Martin Vice President Metropolitan Representative To build and strengthen the capacity of public galleries Linden New Art in Victoria to deliver valuable cultural, social and Rami Eltchelebi Treasurer economic returns to their communities. Co-opted Representative (Finance) ShineWing Australia PGAV VISION Jody Evans Spokesperson A vibrant, cohesive, professional network of public Co-opted Representative (Marketing) galleries across Victoria which deliver inspiring visual Melbourne Business School arts experiences that are relevant and accessible to Anthony Camm Regional Representative the whole community. Ararat Regional Art Gallery Charlotte Day Metropolitan Representative Monash University Art Museum Tony Ellwood NGV Representative National Gallery of Victoria Jennifer Kalionis Regional Representative Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum Debra Morgan Co-opted Representative (Philanthropy) Independent Consultant Tom Mosby Metropolitan Representative Koorie Heritage Trust Claire Newhouse Co-opted Representative (Legal) Corrs Chambers Westgarth Lawyers 2 Sue Roff Metropolitan Representative Arts Project Australia Anton Vardy Regional Representative Gippsland Art Gallery OUR STAFF Anne Robertson Executive Officer (0.8 FTE) Josephine Harkin Summit Intern (0.2 FTE) OUR FINANCIAL TEAM Meredith Windust Accountant FAME Group Pty Ltd Gianna Roscia Auditor Alan Dredge & Co OUR SUPPORTERS Creative Victoria Corrs Chambers Westgarth Lawyers Melbourne Business School National Gallery of Victoria Shine Wing Australia The Robert Salzer Foundation Images (from top): Education Week at Heide Museum of Modern Art, photograph by Jeremy Weihrauch; artist talk at Ararat Regional Art Gallery; Free Art School at Benalla Art Gallery. PGAV MEMBERS The PGAV represents 50 public galleries across metropolitan and regional Victoria: Ararat Regional Art Gallery Art Gallery of Ballarat ArtSpace at Realm Arts Centre Melbourne Arts Project Australia Arts Space Wodonga Australian Centre for the Moving Image | ACMI Benalla Art Gallery Bendigo Art Gallery Bundoora Homestead Art Centre Burrinja Gallery Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum Central Goldfields Art Gallery City Gallery at Melbourne Town Hall Counihan Gallery in Brunswick Deakin University Collections & Gallery East Gippsland Art Gallery Eltham Library Community Gallery Geelong Gallery Gippsland Art Gallery Glen Eira City Council Gallery Hamilton Gallery Heide Museum of Modern Art Horsham Regional Art Gallery Incinerator Gallery Koorie Heritage Trust 3 Latrobe Regional Gallery La Trobe University Museum of Art | LUMA La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre | VAC Linden New Art Manningham Gallery McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery Mildura Arts Centre | MAC Monash Gallery of Art | MGA Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA Montsalvat Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery | MPRG National Gallery of Victoria RMIT Gallery Shepparton Art Museum | SAM State Library of Victoria Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery TarraWarra Museum of Art The Duldig Studio The Ian Potter Museum of Art The Gallery @ Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre Images (from top): RMIT Gallery; Emma Coulter’s Town Hall Gallery installation at Linden New Art, image courtesy of the artist Wangaratta Art Gallery and Anna Pappas Gallery, photograph by David Marks; Warrnambool Art Gallery TarraWarra Museum of Art; the Archibald Prize at the Art Whitehorse Art Space Gallery of Ballarat. PRESIDENT’S REPORT The Summit kicked off an incredibly busy year for the PGAV, with a strong focus on advocacy and capacity building for the sector. I am pleased to provide an overview of the PGAV’s program of activities in 2015 under our key strategic goals – building capacity, advocacy and promoting the sector: BUILDING CAPACITY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM The PGAV delivers professional development to increase the skills, knowledge and professional networks of staff at public galleries across Victoria. This year we piloted the GALLERY INSIGHTS program, aimed at peer-to-peer knowledge exchange on new Karen Quinlan, PGAV President approaches to gallery practice. In March, John Cunningham, Director, Warrnambool Art Gallery “It has been an incredible year for the PGAV - we provided a tour of the exhibition From the Sacred to convened the Fifth National Public Galleries Summit in the Profane.. In June, members visited Benalla Art Bendigo and delivered on key initiatives aimed at Gallery where Director, Bryony Nainby, shared her building the capacity and profile of the public gallery approach to transforming the gallery and re-energising sector in Victoria.” Karen Quinlan its relationship with the local community, followed by a tour of current exhibitions Ash Keating: Selected The year commenced with the PGAV delivering the Works 2005-2010 and Jacqui Stockdale: Drawing the Fifth National Public Galleries Summit from 5-7 Labyrinth. In July, members attended the exhibition February in Bendigo. The Summit is the key Percy Grainger: In the Company of Strangers at The professional development event for those working in Gallery @ Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre where the public gallery sector. Over three days, more than Gallery Supervisor, Julie Skate, discussed working with one hundred delegates from across Australia and New another institution’s collection, commissioning artists 4 Zealand took part in keynote addresses, panel to develop new work in response to collection items sessions, master classes and networking events. and taking a cross-artform approach to public Andrew Abbott, Deputy Secretary, Creative Victoria programming. In October, members visited Ten opened proceedings, which featured presentations by Cubed and spoke with Gallery Director, Gina Lee, leading figures from the national visual art sector Executive Director, Dianne Gringlas, and Curator to the including Tony Ellwood, Director, National Gallery of Collection, Ada Moshinsky about their unique Victoria and Tony Grybowski, Executive Director, the initiative. Australia Council for the Arts. The Summit received media coverage in The Age / Sydney Morning Herald, We also delivered the third Curatorial Intensive on 29 Arts Hub and the Bendigo Advertiser. Evaluation of the & 30 October, in partnership with NETS Victoria. Summit showed that 49% of delegates were from Central to the program was an international keynote interstate and 44% of delegates were from regional address by Aya Mousawi and Simon Sakhai, founders Australia. The Summit was well received, with 81% of of the Moving Museum. Their inspiring presentation delegates rating it between very good (32%) and was followed by panel sessions about the excellent (49%). commissioning of new work, activating collections and engaging new audiences; exhibition tours at NGV and At the Summit, the PGAV led a forum outlining the Koorie Heritage Trust; and a visit to artist studios in need for the establishment of a national peak body Northcote. for public galleries, including greater collaboration and a national voice for this important sector of the In November we delivered introductory workshops on arts industry. Representatives from Museums how to develop free mobile audio guides with Australia called for the public gallery sector to remain izi.TRAVEL. Members learned how to create an united under the banner of “museums”. While interactive storytelling experience as a way to attract representatives from the public gallery sector referred and engage visitors. to Museum Australia’s poor track record of advocating Our professional development program concluded for galleries and expressed doubts about its ability to with New Leadership in Victoria’s Public Galleries. be an effective body for the gallery sector into the Five of the most recently appointed gallery directors future. It was agreed the best outcome for the public Kallie Blauhorn, Monash Gallery of Art; John gallery sector was for the PGAV and Museums Cunningham, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery; Australia to pursue their respective visions. Mark Themann, Latrobe Regional Gallery; Vanessa Geerans, Warrnambool Art Gallery and Sarah Schmidt, Hamilton Gallery outlined their plans for their respective galleries to PGAV members. ROBERT SALZER FOUNDATION ACQUISITION FUND The Robert Salzer Foundation provides funding to enable public galleries in Victoria to acquire two- dimensional works of art for their collections. To be eligible, galleries must receive funding from Creative Victoria and provide matched funds. In 2015 the RSF Fund supported the following acquisitions: Ararat Regional Art Gallery acquired a screen-printed textile work, Total Control, 2015, by Sarah Contas; Benalla Art Gallery acquired three photographic works from the series The Quiet Wild, 2012, by Jacqui Stockdale; Gippsland Art Gallery acquiredthe Nature Morte, 2014, a painting by Michelle Molinari; Heide Museum of Modern Art acquired detail A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/ someone looks at something… LOGOS / HA HA (The Wounds of Modernism – Kelly at Glenrowan), 1988, by Peter Tyndall; Horsham Regional Art Gallery acquired Salt 272, 2011, a photograph by artist Murray Fredericks; Latrobe Regional Gallery acquired Comparative