DR ERICA SECCOMBE | CHAIR

Erica is a Senior Lecturer at ANU School of Art and Design. She is a visual artist based in the Canberra region, living in semi-rural NSW. Her interdisciplinary arts practice spans from traditional lens-based imaging, print media and drawing, to experimental digital platforms using frontier scientific visualisation software. Erica has been a member of Megalo since 2000 and continues to be passionate about working in the Megalo studios. She has taken up many different roles as an exhibiting artist, a tutor, a staff member, and Artist-in-Residence; and has served as a board member (2007-2014, 2017- ) and Chair of the Board (2010-2014, 2020- ).

DR LILY WITHYCOMBE | SECRETARY

Lily is a curator at the National Museum of Australia. Her PhD focused on the religious topography of Rome, undertaken at the University of London. She has broad research and curatorial interests spanning social history, digital object modelling, antiquarian printmaking, and illustrative practices from antiquity to the present.

VALENTINA JOSIFOVSKI | PUBLIC OFFICER

Valentina is a lawyer with extensive global experience across a range of industries, most recently in the Defence sector. Valentina enjoys contributing to the Arts sector through her work on the Megalo board.

Peta Bryant | Treasurer

Peta Bryant currently delivers policy analysis for government, after seven years working as a management consultant in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Peta has a deep interest in supporting Australian contemporary art, and before working as a public servant and consultant worked for over a decade in Australia’s commercial art scene in Sydney and also as a researcher for the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Peta has a background in economics, econometrics and finance, and has leveraged these skills to support financial management at two artist run initiatives: Runway and Outer Space.

DR dEIDRE bROLLO

Deidre is an artist, writer and educator. She was awarded a PhD from University of Sydney in 2007, and has lectured in Printmedia at Sydney College of the Arts, National Art School, and most recently University of Newcastle. Her work has been exhibited in Australia and internationally, and has won a number of awards. Her interdisciplinary practice draws strongly on print culture and its inherent ideas: the logic of the archive, the transmission of narrative, and the notion of exchange. This focus provides a means to investigate ideas of memory and temporality, to question the conditions and terms on which we engage with the past, and to uncover the ways in which the past is restless in the present.

Karen Dahlstrom

Karen Dahlstrom brings over 25 years’ experience as an HR professional to the Megalo Board. She has experience as an senior executive in both the Commonwealth and ACT Governments, with extensive experience working across the Australian Public Service, including the National Security Community. Currently, she is the Director of Education at the Australian Institute of Police Management in Manly. She was the Managing Editor of Art Monthly Australia magazine from 2004 to 2006 and is a passionate collector and consumer of Australian contemporary art.

CLARE FLANNERY

Clare currently works as a Project Director at NATION Creative, working with a variety of clients in the public and private sectors to deliver strategic creative projects including branding, marketing campaigns and publications. She is passionate about visual communications and strategy and has expertise across project management, communications, campaign management, media relations and events. Clare has completed the Intro to Printmaking course and is keen to help Megalo build its community and profile.

David Greenhalgh

David Greenhalgh is an assistant curator at the National Gallery of Australia, working closely with the Kenneth E Tyler print collection. He has written extensively on art, and holds degrees in visual arts and archives. In his spare time he maintains a video collage practice. David has previously worked in museums and galleries in science education and festival production.

nicci haynes

Nicci Haynes is a visual artist with a roaming arts practice that includes print, drawing, mad-scientist installations, and experimental video, as well as collaborating with poets, dancers and musicians in interdisciplinary performances. Nicci first encountered Megalo in a tin shed at Ainslie Village in 1990 and has been a regular member since 2006. She has worked on the staff as a teacher and as a studio technician and has twice been Artist-in-Residence.

Alexandra Torrens

Alexandra Torrens has been employed in a curatorial capacity for more than 18 years. She joined the Art Section at the Memorial in 2009 and was recently promoted to Senior Curator of Art.  A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Canberra Alex was previously Curator at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and played a leading role in the development and expansion of the Hill End Artist in Residence program.