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GOVERNANCE
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, COLLECTION AND EXHIBITIONS
Maud Page
Maud Page oversees all aspects of the Gallery’s curatorial
activities, and is directly responsible for the management
and development of the Gallery’s Collection. She has been
instrumental in the realisation of major exhibitions and
projects, including ‘Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth’
and ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary
Art from Black Australia’. Maud joined the Gallery in 2002
and was Senior Curator, Contemporary Pacific Art, prior
to taking up her executive management position. She has
been a member of the curatorial team for the Asia Pacific
Triennial of Contemporary Art since 2002, and has written
and lectured extensively, including teaching museum studies
at Sydney University. Maud contributes regularly to Australian
art journals and was a member of the curatorial team for the
Musée du Quai Branly’s Photoquai Biennial in Paris in 2009
and 2011.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, LEARNING AND
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Simon Wright
Simon Wright has held curatorial and management positions
in private, commercial and public galleries and museums since
1993. Prior to joining the Gallery’s Executive Management
Team, he was Director of Griffith Artworks + Griffith University
Art Gallery (2005–12). He has received a Museums Australia
Gallery and Museum Achievement Award (2004–05), and a
National Australia Bank Partnering Award (Queensland) at the
Australia Business Arts Foundation Awards (2006). In 2009,
he was appointed to the Commissioner’s Council for Australia
at the 53rd Venice Biennale, and has served as a member of
the 54th and 55th Venice Biennale Champion’s Program for
Australia. In 2012, he was on the selection committee for the
Premier of Queensland’s International Sculpture Commission,
and served on the Queensland College of Art Industry Advisory
Board. In 2013, he joined the Board of Brisbane’s Institute of
Modern Art, and in 2014 he became Founding Benefactor
of the QAGOMA Foundation.
Executive management
Director
The Director is appointed as Director of the Queensland Art
Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art by the Governor in Council
upon recommendation by the Minister for the Arts approved
by the Board. The Director is appointed for a term of not more
than five years under the
Queensland Art Gallery Act 1987
and
is eligible for reappointment upon expiry of the term.
DIRECTOR
Chris Saines,
CNZM
Chris Saines has worked for over 30 years in leading galleries
in Australia and New Zealand as director, curatorial and
collection manager, educator and curator. He was Director of
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki for 17 years, a longstanding
member of the Museums Australia National Council and
Foundation Chair of Museums Aotearoa. He was a member
of Auckland’s Advisory Panel for Public Art, judged
Australia’s largest sculpture prize, the McClelland Award,
has been a member of the selection panel for New Zealand’s
representation at the Venice Biennale, and is an alumnus
of the J Paul Getty Trust’s Museum Management Institute.
In 2012, he was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order
of Merit (CNZM) for services to the arts.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DEVELOPMENT AND
COMMERCIAL SERVICES
Celestine Doyle
Celestine Doyle first worked at the Gallery from 1987 to 1996.
She returned to the Gallery as an advisor in 2002, and then
took up the role of Manager, Marketing and Communications, in
2007. In 2010, she joined the Gallery’s Executive Management
Team, leading the Gallery’s two-site audience-focused
marketing, communications, business development, tourism
and brand strategy activities. As Deputy Director since 2012,
she has also had responsibility for the Gallery’s commercial
services and strategies. Celestine has more than 30 years’
experience working in the arts, design, environmental and
health sectors in marketing, communications and business
development roles in Brisbane and Melbourne.