NAVA Board

Chair:
Ian Howard (NSW)

Elected members:

Rick Clise (SA)

Felicity Johnston (WA)

Timothy Morrell (QLD)

Aaron Seeto (NSW)

Julie Shiels (VIC)

Co-opted members:

Judy Sullivan (NSW)

Garry Jones (NSW)

Honorary Treasurer and Company Secretary:
Mark Baxter (NSW)

Biographies

Mark Baxter
Mark Baxter has held senior roles in consulting, regulation and risk in the UK, Hong Kong, China and in Australia. Mark is currently in charge of Regulatory Risk and Compliance for the CBA Group which covers the CBA Groups’ global Anti-Money Laundering, Prudential, Consumer and Corporate regulatory requirements. Mark recently moved into this role after being responsible for operational risk and compliance for the Premium Business Services division of CBA. Prior to joining CBA, Mark held a senior executive role at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority where he was responsible for the supervision of approximately half of Australia’s banking system. He was also in charge of the regulatory team which managed the regulatory aspects of the AMP de-merger, the Royal and Sun Alliance IPO (Promina) and the Tower regulatory intervention.

Rick Clise
Rick Clise is an Adelaide-based visual artist currently specialising in making metal sculpture. Prior to developing his arts practice in 2003 he worked in the Information Technology sector at companies including Apple Computer, and Microsoft, in technical, sales and management roles. Even earlier, he worked in the Australian film and television industry as a freelance crewmember, and in the offshore oil industry operating and repairing a remote operated vehicle. Rick has a Master of Business Administration degree from Adelaide University; a Graduate Diploma in Robotics; and an Associate of Arts degree. He is currently completing a Diploma of Civil Engineering at TAFE. He has practical experience as a board director gained by serving on voluntary boards, and has been actively involved in managing governance issues in his most recent directorship. Rick migrated to Australia from the United States in 1979.

Felicity Johnston
Felicity Johnston graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons Art History) in 1996 and a Masters of Philosophy from the University of Western Australia in 2001. After moving to Sydney, she worked at commercial galleries Savill Galleries, Sydney for four years and at Australian Galleries, Sydney for two years. In 2004 Felicity started at the National Association for the Visual Arts as the Communications and Promotions Manager. In 2005, I returned to Perth to open a contemporary art gallery. Exhibiting both emerging and contemporary artists, Johnston Gallery specialises in the works of artists based in the other states and territory’s. Johnston Gallery works hard at forming strong and ethical relationships with its artists and clients while adhering to the Commercial Galleries Code of Practice. Johnston Gallery is a member of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association and the Association of West Australian Art Galleries and is a board member of FotoFreo: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography.

Timothy Morrell
Timothy Morrell has worked as a curator within the public art gallery system and independently; on big international projects and tiny regional ones. Through past study and work in Melbourne, Hobart and Adelaide he has strong professional connections beyond Queensland, where he now resides. Through working regularly with Brisbane-based indigenous artists, many of whom are noted for their political astuteness, Timothy is continually alerted to their aims and opinions. Timothy has also worked as an art writer throughout Australia.

Aaron Seeto
Aaron Seeto is the Director of the Asia-Australia Arts Centre (Gallery 4A) and also a practising artist. He has a considerable working knowledge of cultural diversity in the contemporary arts. Much of the current research and thinking at the Asia-Australia Arts Centre responds to the significant cultural shifts occurring around us, thinking through both cultural and generational change. Through his work at the Asia-Australia Arts Centre and other Asia-Pacific projects Aaron has curated exhibitions such as 'News From Islands', at the Campbelltown Arts Centre.

Julie Shiels
Julie Shiels has been a practicing artist for over twenty years and is a sessional lecturer in Art and Public Space at RMIT. Julie completed a Masters of Art and Public Spaces from RMIT in 2006. She is currently working towards two solo shows at 45 Downstairs in August 2008 and at Monash Gallery of Art in April 2009. Julie's work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Ausralia, the Museum of Victoria, and the Powerhouse Museum.

Judy Sullivan
Judy Sullivan is a Partner with Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney, specialising in taxation law. She has Economics and Law degrees from the Australian National University, and a Master of Laws from Sydney University. She devotes a lot of her time to non-profit and arts organisations, and has assisted in the establishment of many national foundations and charities. She has worked for many years with NAVA and the Arts Law Centre of Australia on a pro bono basis, and won the NSW Law Society's Community Legal Services Pro Bono Award in 2000 for her work with artists in the area of taxation. She assisted in developing the ATO public ruling for artists, which was issued in 2005, and successfully represented an artist in legal proceedings against the ATO in 2006.