Board members of the Friends of SASA for 2011-2012
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 |
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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.
Membership Officer: Patricia Wozniak
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PATRICIA WOZNIAK is a practicing Artist, whose artwork consists of interdisciplinary fields, exploring alternative materials and new media processes. Working mainly with installation and moving image, Patricia is also a keen collaborator who enjoys the synergy of creativity.
Patricia Wozniak completed a Master of Visual Arts and Design from the South Australian School of Art in 2010 and has been involved with the community and arts for over 8 years.
Currently Patricia works as a part time Arts tutor on the Visual Arts and new media program. When she is not at Tutti, she works on art projects with youth and looks for old treasures and technology she can transform into art.
Treasurer: Nicola Semmens
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Nicola Semmens |
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NICOLA SEMMENS enrolled at the South Australian School of Art at the University of SA finishing her studies in 1991 and then completing her Honours Degree in Screen Studies at Flinders University. She has shown her work throughout South Australia and completed her first major exhibition successfully at Art Images Gallery in July 2011. She looks forward to joining the Friends Board as our new Treasurer. She brings a wealth of experience and hopes to bring additional "wealth" to the Friends SASA Board and its members.
Publicity/Events Coordinator: Pamela Karran
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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.
SASA Institutional Member: Professor Kay Lawrence
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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.
Committee Members
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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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Mark Fischer |
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MARK FISCHER has worked as a visual arts educator for thirty years, and currently works as DECS Education Manager at the Art Gallery of South Australia. He is a Department of Education and Children’s Services (DECS) seconded teacher, with particular expertise in art museum education and resource-based learning. Mark's role is to work in partnership with teachers by making strong connections between school-based learning and the unique learning experiences offered by the Gallery.
Mark designs and creates teaching and learning opportunities at the Art Gallery by: facilitating face-to-face interpretation of works of art for permanent and temporary exhibitions; creating pre and post visit learning materials; conducting artist led studio workshops; producing online enquiry based games and resources; connecting partner programs with related sites, as well as providing individual student and teacher support. Mark has a Bachelor of Education from the Adelaide College of Arts and Education, 1976 – 1979.
Mark is currently a Member, SALA Board and Executive Committee SALA Board and is also a member of the DECS Arts Advisory Group.
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Barbara Tanner |
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BARBARA TANNER attended SASA at Stanley Street during 1965 and since then has travelled extensively and lived in Melbourne and Sydney. On return to Adelaide fourteen years ago she became an Education Guide at the Art Gallery. Due to her continued involvement with the Education Services at AGSA, she has for the past five years curated the Senior Secondary school SALA Exhibition of Life Drawing and Portraiture held at Carclew for students, who annually participate in workshops run by the Education Services of AGSA
Her interest in art has meant becoming involved with The Australian Decorative and Fine Art Society [ADFAS] which has over 6,500 members nationally. This in turn has led to committee membership in both Adelaide and Melbourne and she is now a member of the National Executive. During 2009 she became the Australian Lecturers Adviser for ADFAS, sourcing new lecturers and advising the individual Societies when they required Australian content in their lecture program. She has recently taken up the Chairmanship of the Lecturers Standing Committee for a four year term. This entails contracting eighteen specialist Art lecturers a year from the United Kingdom and Europe, choosing their lecture titles and managing their tours for our thirty-four Societies across Australia, which range from Perth to Cairns.
Barbara is married with one son and two grandchildren living in Adelaide and another son living in Melbourne. Apart from family her other interests are travel, the visual and performing arts, reading and the occasional game of golf.
She has been interested in all facets of art throughout her life and looks forward to the opportunity to contribute to the work of the Friends SASA Board.
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Brian Budgen |
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BRIAN BUDGEN received his art education at the South Australian School of Art, graduating in Painting in 1978. He subsequently gained a degree in teaching and has since taught Art in a number of Private and Education Department schools and Tertiary institutions. In addition to teaching and pursuing his Art practice, Brian has developed an interest in set design and painting, working for several years in professional theatre. After a year spent overseas, Brian returned to teaching and is currently teaching Art and Photography at Scotch College.
He has already spent a year serving on the Committee of the Friends of SASA, which he has enjoyed immensely. Unfortunately, he received a serious injury to his right achilles tendon which saw him largely out of action for a large part of 2009 and unable to participate in committee activities as much as he would have liked. However all is rapidly becoming well again and he looks forward to an unhampered year of being able to give something back to the art school that gave so much to his education as an artist.
As Brian says, ‘It gives me great pleasure to be able to use my skills as a signwriter to provide the necessary signage for the various Friends events’.