Paula MAHONEY
Jump on through (to the other side) 2021
from the series Dis/appear II
courtesy of the artist and Fletcher Arts (Melbourne)

MAPh staff

MAPh Committee of Management

MAPh is the City of Monash's public art gallery. MAPh's governing board, the MAPh Committee of Management (COM), oversees the gallery's affairs.

Membership of the Committee of Management

Tony Peake OAM (Chair)

Tony is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants ANZ (FCA) and a Graduate and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD); he brings more than 25 years’ of board-level experience across the public, commercial and not-for-profit sectors.

As a Senior Partner at PwC, Tony served as an Audit and Consulting Partner, Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Director, with particular experience in the retail and consumer, education, and government sectors.

Tony is a Non-Executive Director at Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd (ASX:DMP), PeopleIN Limited (ASX:PPE), Bakers Delight, Country Fire Authority, Central Highlands Water, Scanlon Capital, Brencorp Properties and The Australian Ballet. He was formerly Chair of Methodist Ladies' College and a council member of the University of Melbourne.

In the 2023 King’s Birthday honours he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) (General Division) for service to the community through a range of organisations.

Val Brown

Val has over 20 years' experience in digital. Most recently on the executive team of REA Group as Chief Consumer Product Officer, Val led a team of more than 250 people in Australia, bringing together the functions of product management, design and engineering to create intuitive and personalised experiences to help individuals make great property decisions. Val worked with REA Group for more than ten years and during this time held several leadership roles across consumer and customer product, product strategy, mobile and personalisation.

Prior to REA Group, Val’s experience spanned a number of industries including automotive, FMCG and classifieds, operating in both domestic and global markets. Val holds a Bachelor of Business Marketing from RMIT. She is a Director on the board of the Cremorne Digital Hub and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Kirsty Grant

Kirsty is a curator and writer with specialist knowledge of Australian art and design, developed over more than two decades of working with major public collections. From 2015–16 she was Director and CEO of Heide Museum of Modern Art and prior to that, held various curatorial positions including Senior Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Nick Heynsbergh

Nick has expertise within the education sector primarily in secondary teaching as well as being an arts practitioner. He has a Master of Teaching (Secondary) from The University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Arts – Fine Art (Honours) RMIT City Campus. He is currently teaching and leading Visual Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. In 2022 he was a contributing writer to the revised National Association for the Arts’s Visual Code of Practice. Heynsbergh is also a practicing visual artist.

Richard Janko

Richard is a lawyer and executive with broad experience across the legal, finance and real-estate sectors. He has a deep and longstanding connection with the visual arts. He is currently a trustee of the MGA Foundation, and has held previous positions as an advisory committee member for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s Contemporary Circle program and board member of Bus Projects (nonprofit contemporary art gallery). Richard is currently Head of Transactions at Zig Inge Group, a private real-estate investment business, and prior to that was a Director of funds management group IDA, and a lawyer at Arnold Bloch Leibler.

Cr Elisha Lee (Council representative)

Elisha, Councillor for Jells Ward, is a local resident and a frequent visitor to MAPh and the Wheelers Hill Library, committed to supporting MAPh as a key cultural establishment serving Monash and the broader community.

As the Chair of the Monash City Council Multicultural Advisory Committee and a professional with expertise in social and economic policy advisory roles, Elisha draws on her background in institutional budgeting and governance. And she brings unique perspectives as a proud Korean-Australian migrant woman with lived experience.

Cr Shane McCluskey (Council representative)

In addition to being a Mulgrave Ward Councillor and the former Mayor of Monash, Shane has been a professional firefighter since 1990, holding the rank of Station Officer. Shane is also a founding Board Member of the Firefighters Charity Fund. Now in his sixth year as a member of the MAPh Committee of Management, as one of two Councillor representatives, he hopes to continue to advance MAPh as the Australian home of photography in and around Monash and the greater community. Shane and his family reside locally and have done since 2002.

Dr David Rosetzky

David Rosetzky is a Melbourne-based artist and educator with an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to art making. Often working with practitioners from the fields of theatre, dance and film, he creates videos, installations and photographic works in which identity is intimately observed. With an extensive exhibition history both in Australia and overseas, he has presented his work in over 30 solo exhibitions and 60 group exhibitions and his works are held in numerous collections. David has a PhD in Visual Art from Monash University and currently teaches in the Master of Photography program at RMIT University.

Clive Scott AM

Clive Scott was the General Manager of the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins for 18 years and Area General Manager – Sofitel Australia and Fiji, working for Accor hotels for 27 years and Hilton International for 21 years. He has a diploma in Hotel Management and a degree in Economics. He is currently a Sofitel Ambassador for the Arts for Australia.

He is actively involved in Melbourne’s business and arts community. He is Chairman of Judges for the 2023 Melbourne Awards, Chairman of the Georges Mora Fellowship, on the Boards of the Melbourne Prize Trust, the Australian Ballet Foundation, Oceania Foundation, Finucane & Smith Unlimited, the Committee for Melbourne Liveability and Urban Optimisation Standing Committee and the Corporate Advisory Boards for Hope Street Youth & Family Services and Police Veterans Victoria. Clive has also been a member of the selection panel for the Miss Universe Australia competition since 2005.

Clive was honoured with the Gold Tourism Medal from the French Minister of Tourism for his contribution to tourism development in France and at the time was the only person in Australia to receive this honour. He was awarded the 2013 Silver Bernache in the category of Respect/Social Responsibility by AccorHotels, and in 2015 was made an honorary member of Les Clefs dʼOr Australia and was awarded a Brolga Award by the Australian Dancing Society for services to Dance Sport in Australia. He was recently made a member of the Bordeaux Wine Society.

In 2021 Clive received a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) chosen for his significant service to the hotel industry and to the arts.

Matt Soulsby

Matt is a senior strategic marketing consultant, who has worked intricately with some of Australia’s largest media campaigns of the past decade. He possesses a deep specialism in digital and traditional media solutions and applies this knowledge to guide clients towards outcomes at both a local and global scale. Matt has been recognised by his peers as one of the ‘B&T 30 under 30’ most influential Australian marketing professionals for his contribution to the area of ‘marketing strategy’ and he continues to passionately support both the commercial and not-for-profit sectors.

External advisor to MAPh's Collection Committee

Isobel Crombie

Dr Isobel Crombie began her career as a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia in 1979. She joined the National Gallery of Victoria as a Senior Curator of Photography in 1988 and was awarded a Doctorate from the University of Melbourne in 2000. In 2012 she was appointed Assistant Director, Curatorial and Collection Management, a position she held until her retirement in 2019. Dr Crombie has curated widely in photography and was a part of all project teams for major exhibitions at the NGV for seven years, including Melbourne Now, the Triennial, and all Melbourne Winter Masterpiece exhibitions. She has published extensively over her forty-year career including, Body Culture: Max Dupain, Photography and Australian Photography (2004). Her latest publications are Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic (2019, with Maria Quirk) and She Persists: Perspectives on Women in Art and Design (2020, joint editor).