Board members of the Friends of SASA for 2010-2011
President: Jack Condous
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Jack Condous |
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JACK CONDOUS has served as Honorary President International Society for Education Through Art (INSEA). During his 6-year term as President and Vice President he travelled to 28 different countries, working closely with UNESCO/INSEA as a non-government organization.
He was awarded the Sir Herbert Read medal for service and work in art education.
He has held scholarships with the Australia Council, British Council, Alfred University USA, and Australia/Japan Foundation. He has also held positions as President, Vice-President and Secretary as well as publicity officer for a variety of art and education bodies.
He trained at Adelaide Teacher's College, South Australian School of Art and Alfred University, USA. Jack taught art at Secondary level, Adult Education Centres and lectured part-time at the SASA and SAIT: he worked in the SA Education Department in a variety of senior positions for 34 years.
Since retiring he has returned to producing his own art works and looking after 9 delightful grandchildren. Currently, Jack is Secretary of the SA Chapter of the Australian Fulbright Alumni Association and on the History Committee of the SASA.
He has been Foundation President of the Friends SASA since August 2008.
Vice President: Bill Morrow
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BILL MORROW is a Special Counsel at the Adelaide legal firm Norman Waterhouse. He has practised law for 30 years principally in the fields of intellectual property and information technology law.
He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the South Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia (1996) and maintains an arts practice in drawing, painting and photography. He is an occasional exhibitor and has held two exhibitions of his photography in Yogyakarta in Central Java.
Bill has provided legal advice to artists since 1979 and continues to do so as a volunteer lawyer for the Arts Law Centre of Australia.
He has published articles about copyright law and has regularly lectured on that subject at the University of South Australia and The University of Adelaide.
He is currently a board member of Artlink Australia.
Secretary: Bente Andermahr
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Bente Andermahr |
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Having graduated in 1972 from Western Teachers College and SASA Stanley Street, BENTE ANDERMAHR spent her first years teaching and working in NSW. Returning in 74, she taught art, design and many other subjects over the next 23 years in schools that included Banksia Park High School, Mt Barker High School and Mitcham Girls before moving into Public Service with the Education Department, Human Services and finally as a Manager, Information and Knowledge Management within Families and Communities. Her last two years before retiring in 2009 were spent as a Principal Design Consultant (Visual Communications) for Families and Communities. Over the years, Bente has continued to study, gaining a Bachelor of Visual Communication (Graphic Design) in 2002, qualifications in Photo Imaging, and endless studies in many different creative fields and mediums. She has been involved as a freelance graphic designer as Muddleheaded Designs, but now focuses that entirely on photography. In addition to extensive travel, Bente’s photographic work absorbs most of her time, but she is also volunteers as an Education Guide with the Art Gallery of South Australia, and has a new commitment to exhibiting and working with the Australian Photographic Society.
Treasurer: Garrie Hisco
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GARRIE HISCO graduated in Design Education from the SA School of Art at Stanley Street in 1972. He taught as a specialist Design Teacher for 7 years both in country at Whyalla and pioneered Open Plan Education at Banksia Park High School until seconded (1978) to Torrens College of Advanced Education and its descendants when it became the University of SA.
Garrie has also taught across the curriculum in the fields of Product Design, Graphic Design and Environmental Design along with studio drawing and workshop practice. He spent 19 years in the School of Art, School of Design, and School of Art and Design Education. He also taught Business Studies and Computer Studies to School of Design graduating students. He retired from the University of South Australia in mid 1997 after 29 years of service in Art and Design Education.
Garrie started his own business in January 1998, specialising with a venue in the Adelaide Hills in Japanese food and hospitality. He also has business interests in exporting and importing material allied to Japanese interiors.
Garrie has been foundation Treasurer of Friends of SASA since 2008.
Membership Officer: David Northcote
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DAVID NORTHCOTE is a retired teacher who now has time to further his interest in painting and digital imaging. He believes in promoting the visual arts to all in the community: his experiences in the field are broad and varied. He began his career as a student at the South Australian School of Art and Western Teachers College. His teaching career spans a rewarding 36 years during which time his positions of responsibility have included those of Visual Arts Coordinator, Moderator, Chief Assessor and Curriculum and Assessment Officer at SSABSA. All of these experiences have provided him with highly effective communication skills. David has been Foundation Membership Officer to the Friends of SASA since 2008.
SASA Institutional Member: Professor Kay Lawrence
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Professor Kay Lawrence AM was born in Canberra and spent her childhood in Papua New Guinea before moving to South Australia as a teenager. She studied to be an art teacher at the South Australian School of Art and Western Teachers College in the 1960s and began exhibiting as a painter in 1970. She later studied tapestry weaving at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland in the 1980s, and has since developed an international profile as a tapestry weaver as well as initiating the community tapestry movement in South Australia.
In 1988 she completed two major commissions for Parliament House in Canberra and was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in1989 for her work designing and coordinating the making of The Parliament House Embroidery. As well as undertaking commissions she has maintained an internationally recognised exhibition practice. In 1999 the University of Queensland Art Museum developed the joint retrospective exhibition Close Ties; Kay Lawrence and Marcel Marois, that was shown in Brisbane and toured to Sydney and Adelaide. In 2002 a monograph on her work, Kay Lawrence was published in the UK by Telos Press. In 2008 she showed a significant body of work in This everything water, an exhibition she curated for the 2008 Adelaide Festival of Arts, that focused on Aboriginal and settler Australian’s use of pearl shell as a sign for water.
She is currently Professor and Director of the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia. Her recent work uses textile processes to explore the legacy of white settler culture in Australia, engaging with issues of ‘whiteness’ and considering ‘an ethics of decolonisation’ as put forward by Deborah Bird Rose.
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Jack Cross |
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JACK CROSS is Associate Professor (Adjunct) attached to the SA School of Art and the School of Education. He also teaches at the Adelaide Central School of Art. For 20 years he was the Head of Studies in Education at the Underdale campus. Since semi-retirement he has been awarded life-membership and a medal for his contribution to the University of the Third Age. In 2008 he received a similar award for his contribution to WEA. His 'Magnum Opus' on the history of the Northern Territory (40 years in preparation) is now with Wakefield Press. He is also President of Friends of SASA's Archives.
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Gloria Goddard |
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GLORIA GODDARD: Life is fun with much to do. Surprisingly even with my time divided in retirement between family, friends, sailing, golf, reading, travelling and art practise, I have at times been enticed to join committees (sailing, social and golf). The many organizational and negotiating skills developed over 30 years of lecturing in Visual Art (as a counsellor, student/staff liaison officer, committee member and chairperson) are still getting an airing in retirement. With Painting and Textile as the main focus, my art practice keeps me occupied through exhibitions, private and public commit ions. Presently my energies are very much absorbed in curating and organizing of ‘The First of the Friends’ Exhibition for The Friends of SASA.
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Pamela Karran |
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PAMELA KARRAN attended the J course and SA School of Art from 1963 to 1965. In 1966 to 1988 she was an art teacher and Visual Arts Coordinator in DECS Schools, in New Zealand and Canada. From 1989 to 2007 she was appointed Assistant Principal, Deputy Principal, International Director and Principal. In 2003 she was awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia for Service to International Education. In 2007, Pamela retired from DECS. In February and May 2008 she was the Australian Representative at APEC Education Conference in South Korea. Currently she is contracted as International Director, Banksia Park International High School. Pamela was elected to the Friends of SASA committee in 2008 and has fulfilled the role of Events Coordinator throughout 2008 and 2009.
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Gerry Colella |
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GERRY COLELLA attended the South Australian School of Art from 1970-3, graduating with an Advanced Diploma Teaching (Fine Arts). He subsequently completed a B Ed in 1980. He is currently teaching Visual Arts and photography at secondary level within DECS. He has wide experience in art education and is an accredited assessor and convenor of the SSABSA YR 12 Art Show. Gerry is also a practising artist with exhibitions in SA and interstate. Gerry has been a Foundation Committee Member of the Friends of SASA since 2008 and has served as Photography Officer throughout 2008 and 2009.
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YVONNE EAST is a Visual Artist currently residing in Victor Harbor, working primarily in oil on canvas and works on paper. “Out of the Shadows” is her most recent solo exhibition held during the 2010 South Australian Living Artists Festival. In conjunction with the SALA Festival, Yvonne was also a Finalist for the Advertiser Business SA Contemporary Art Prize 2010.
In addition to her studio work, Yvonne has been engaged as an Artist in Residence for Secondary Schools and Councils, producing large scale murals. Recent achievements include works exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as a finalist in the 2008 and 2009 Dobell Drawing Prize and the winner of the 2010 Advantage SA Regional Award for the Arts in the region of the Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island.
For more information visit www.yvonneeast.com.