Robyn Glindemann is a director of Lantegy Legal – a boutique law firm specialising in environmental and land access matters. She has over 20 years’ experience advising resources companies, financial institutions and government agencies in Australia and British Columbia and was named as a leading individual in Climate Change, Planning and Environment, Natural Resources Law, Water Law and Native Title Law in the 2021 edition of Best Lawyers in Australia.  Thanks to the many educational events in PICA’s donor program, Robyn is a keen collector of Western Australian contemporary art. Robyn is excited about the current focus on the architectural and cultural development of Perth and the Perth Cultural Centre in particular and is passionate about promoting the vibrancy of Perth’s cultural life to locals and visitors alike.

Marco D’Orsogna has been a Director of his family agri & food business D’Orsogna Ltd for over 25years. D’Orsogna Ltd is one of the most successful and dynamic Australian based Food Manufacturing businesses with a focus on quality Australian sourced and made, traditional Italian small goods. He is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Vice President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is actively involved in the Perth arts community not only as a donor across several disciplines of the arts.

Susanna Castleden is an artist and associate professor at Curtin University, Western Australia. She completed a PhD at RMIT in 2014, and currently supervises creative practice HDR students working in drawing, printmaking, photography and sculptural practice. Susanna’s engagement with PICA is driven by her desire to continue to nurture and provide opportunities for emerging and early career artists. Through large-scale drawing and printmaking processes, Susanna’s own art practice considers mobility, mapping, distance and proximity, and often includes physical or durational elements. Susanna has received a number of awards including the Linden Prize (VIC); the Burnie Print Prize (TAS), Joondalup Prize (WA) and Bankwest Art Prize (WA). Susanna’s artworks are included in major collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the Art Gallery of WA.

Amy Barrett-Lennard has been Director of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) since April 2006. As a dynamic leader, she has brought vision and vitality to a range of arts organisations across Australia and internationally. She has previously held positions as: Director of the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Curator of the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria; Curator of the Goldfields Arts Centre Gallery, Kalgoorlie- Boulder, Western Australia; and Manager of the British Pavilion at the 1995 Venice Biennale. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Art History Major) from the University of Western Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Post-war and Contemporary Art from Sotheby’s Institute, London. A regular contributor to the broader national arts and cultural communities, Amy has sat on numerous boards and panels including those for the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, NETS Victoria, Museums Australia, the Victorian College of the Arts, Art on the Move and the federal government’s Visions of Australia program. She is currently a member of the Murdoch University Art Collection Board and Edith Cowan University’s CREATEC (Centre of Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications) and is President of the Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia (CAOS) network.

Fiona de Garis is Executive Director at BREC: Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, where she continues to explore the transformative potential of art to change lives and build communities. Fiona is skilled in facilitation of the creative process and has worked extensively across performance genres, with a strong focus on developing new Australian work. Passionate about capacity building and realising potential, she loves mentoring and providing development pathways for artists and arts workers. From 2008 to 2018 Fiona was Senior Producer at Performing Lines WA, where she nurtured independent West Australian artists and their projects. Previously Fiona enjoyed the diversity of fifteen years freelancing as an event, company, production and stage manager; working for many of Australia’s leading performing arts organisations. A graduate of both UWA and the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Fiona is currently Deputy Chair of CircuitWest and a member of the Bunbury Events Advisory Group

Narelle Thorne  is an Advisor Community Investment at Rio Tinto where she manages and support Community Partnerships on behalf of Rio Tinto.

She first joined Rio Tinto in 2010 as a Mobile Plant Operator and has since held a range of roles, including Aboriginal Mentor, Community Relationship Advisor and Indigenous Employment Advisor.

After studying at the University of Western Australia, Narelle spent eight years as a journalist with the ABC and eight years with the WA Department of Indigenous Affairs working in media relations and policy development portfolios.  Narelle has completed an Associate Degree in Applied Science – Indigenous Community Management and Development at Curtin University.

Narelle volunteers her time for a number of not-for-profit groups and serves on the board of the Graham ‘Polly’ Farmer Foundation, Kwopertok Yorgas Working Group and was most recently appointed to the board of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.  She has also previously sat on the board of the Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Theatre Company and recently wrote a short play which premiered during NAIDOC Week in Perth 2019.Top of Form

Mark Clapham is the joint owner and licensee of Sheffield Property, a leading Perth based commercial property company specialising in the leasing and asset management of institutional grade commercial office assets and new office development precincts. Mark has over 27 years’ experience across Australia and London, providing strategic property advice to institutional property owners and wholesale private clients. He is also member of the Property Council of Australia.

He has a keen personal interest and professional involvement in contributing to the success of Perth’s new urban development areas and urban renewal precincts throughout the CBD and Metropolitan areas. He and his company have been responsible for the leasing of many of Perth’s major new developments such as Brookfield Place and Kings Square, Fremantle & Kings Square, Perth.

Mark has also been an avid supporter over the years of the various Arts & Cultural Festivals held in Perth.

Kelly Fliedner is a writer, editor and curator with over 15 years experience working with arts organisations across Australia and Asia. She is interested in the convergence of critical and creative discourses surrounding contemporary art and has worked on many creative writing projects for organisations such as the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India, the Biennale of Sydney, and the Next Wave Festival, Melbourne. Kelly has worked with many of PICA’s peer organisations as both an administrator and creative practitioner, including as Program Curator and then Editor at West Space in Melbourne from 2009 until 2015. Kelly has received professional grants and awards from the City of Melbourne, Creative Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts and been a peer assessor for the National Association for the Visual Arts, Regional Arts Australia and the Australia Council. She is currently an Editor at Tura New Music where she is writing a history of the experimental music organisation, and is co-founder and editor of Semaphore, a publishing project about art from Western Australia.

Carly Lane is a Murri woman from Queensland, Australia. She is an independent curator and a senior research officer at Culture and the Arts – DLGSC (Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries). She uses her research and curating to enable Aboriginal self-determination, equality, and social change. Three shows dear to her curatorial-heart include Balancing Act (2021), Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley (2019) and Everyone has a history: Plain Speak (2017) which she curated for the Art Gallery of Western Australia. DRS was particularly fun and important for its model of co-curation with Emilia Galatis and an alliance of Aboriginal curators from the Kimberley region. In 2012, she also guest curated the Second National Indigenous Art Triennial (National Gallery of Australia, 2012). Carly finds inspiration in political art and any art (really) where the artist speaks their political, social and cultural truth.

Ian Smyth is the Development Director for Hesperia; a property development company recognising the uniqueness of our State and the need to evolve continually alongside our growing community. Ian oversees the delivery of Hesperia’s mixed-use and commercial built form projects. His role encompasses all aspects of property development from legal framework and project financing, through to community engagement, design development and construction delivery.

Previously with Fini Group and FJM Property, Ian has been involved in many award winning developments from Como the Treasury and the State Buildings through to Knutsford residential development in Fremantle. He understands the importance of the arts and culture in our lives and the need to have stakeholders front of mind when developing a concept. It is this perspective that drives his focus to delivering places of enduring value.