Ms Evol McLeod (Chair)

Evol McLeod has worked in arts management and community cultural development for over twenty years.

Positions held include: Manager of Canberra Repertory, Executive Officer and Vice President of the Australian Performing Arts Centres Association, and Director of Tuggeranong Arts Centre. She has worked on many boards and advisory bodies, at both national, state and territory level. Recognition of her work includes the Chief Minister’s International Women’s Day Award for contribution to the arts and community (ACT) the Centenary Medal for providing services to the Tuggeranong Community through the arts, the Telstra Business Women’s Award - ACT (IBM Community and Government Award) and in 2008, the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the arts as an administrator and advocate and to the community of Canberra.  Evol is actively engaged in the arts and voluntary work for community organisations.

Mr Peter Haynes (Deputy Chair)

Qualifications: BA (Hons), Archaeology; BA (Hons), Fine Arts;
MA, English Literature.
Currently Ph.D Candidate, Art History, ANU
Previous Positions include: Director, ACT Museums and Galleries
Curator, Parliament House Art Collection (1991 - 1995)
Curator of Exhibitions, (1981 - 1989), ANU School of Art
Head, Art History & Theory, ANU School of Art (1985, 1986)
Education Officer, Art Gallery of New South Wales, (1978 - 1981)
Lecturer, Sydney University; College of Fine Arts, UNSW; University of Canberra; Australian National University
Project Officer, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council;
Project Officer, Music Board, Australia Council
University Art Curator, University of Canberra       

Over 200 publications (nationally and internationally) on historic and contemporary visual arts practice, principally in Australia.
Over 220 exhibitions curated (nationally and internationally) on historic and contemporary Australian art and craft. Guest Curator 2000 Melbourne Festival.
Membership and Executive Membership of numerous arts-related Boards and Committees.

Mr Rex Hollier (Treasurer)

Rex Hollier is a CPA who has specialised in public sector financial management and governance practising in both public and private sectors.  He is currently a self employed contractor operating both in Australia and overseas primarily involving financial management and governance in the public sector.  He has been heavily involved in public sector accounting reforms in Australia and in other countries particularly in the areas of financial reporting and governance improvement. 
Rex has been Treasurer and/or Auditor of a number of non-profit organisations over the years.  Having previously served on the Board of Strathnairn Arts Association and as its Treasurer, the new and exciting Belconnen Arts Centre offers an opportunity to serve a wider arts community.
Rex was born and bred in Canberra and is based in the Belconnen area. 

Ms Maryann Mussared (Secretary)
Strathnairn Arts Association

BA (Applied Arts) COFA @ UNSW

Maryann Mussared is a full time professional artist, freelance photographer and arts writer, and has worked in arts management and community cultural development in the ACT since 1998. Maryann spent three years at the Canberra School of Arts, ANU before graduating from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, 1997.  Prior to that, Maryann had an extensive career in government, politics, travel and financial services. Recent positions she has held include Manager of Arts Programs, Belconnen Community Service 1998 - 2003; Assistant Director and Communications Manager for Healthpact (ACT Health Promotion Grants) 2003 – 2006;  as well as managing funded arts projects and working in a voluntary capacities with a number of ACT and national arts organizations.   She served as Chair of the ACT Community Arts Peer Assessment Committee 2000 – 2003 and Deputy Chair of the ACT Cultural Council from 2001 – 2003. 

Mr Graham Bauerle (Public Officer)
Phoenix Players

Graham Bauerle( B.Sc, Dip. Ed) was a teacher with the ACT Department of Education,working at several high schools and colleges, trained as a teacher of Science but taught French for the last 14 years of his career. He has worked casually as an office assistant at Walter Turnbull for 6 years. His main interests have been in amateur theatre performance and governance, having been President of Phoenix Players for 7 years. He is presently Vice-President. He particularly enjoys performing in musical productions. He enjoys gardening, reading, fishing and baby-sitting for his two grandsons. One of his major aims is to ensure that the theatre for Belconnen Arts Centre is built.

Mr Asmi Wood
Senior Research Fellow & National Centre for Indigenous Studies HDR Program Manager

BE (The University of Melbourne)
LLB (Hons) (The Australian National University)
PhD (The Australian National University)

Asmi gained a Bachelor of Engineering/Science (BE) from The University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with Honours from The Australian National University. He completed his PhD in 2011 and his doctoral thesis is titled The regulation of the use of force by non-State actors under international law. He is also a practising barrister and solicitor in the ACT.

Asmi received the Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence from The Australian National University in 2010. Before commencing work at the College, Asmi worked in private practice and in government, both in Australia and overseas. Asmi's field of research is the use of force in international law, terrorism, international humanitarian law, legal ethics, comparative law, jurisprudence and legal interpretation, and Indigenous peoples and the law. He has contributed papers and submissions to various governmental agencies on the computer industry, Indigenous issues, and issues affecting refugees and asylum seekers. He is also interested in indigenous music and language, religion, and religious studies.

Ms Shirley Gourgaud
Belconnen Community Council

After gaining my research based Master of Science degree in Physical Chemistry at the University of Queensland in 1980 I moved to Canberra and commenced my Public Service career in the Legislative Research Service, Parliamentary Library, Parliament House, specialising in energy technologies. Later, during my time with the Department of Primary Industries and Energy, I completed a Diploma in Economics from the University of New England. Retiring from the Public Service in 1998, I moved into private research and community work. After serving as Secretary of the Belconnen Community Council for a year, I have served as President since 2008. Currently, I am a Board Member of the Belconnen Arts Centre. During the Interim Board period, I served as a member on the selection committee for the Public Art Acquisition for the Belconnen Arts Centre. Apart from my community advocacy duties, I create jewellery and small sculpture items incorporating various metal techniques, semi-precious stones, crystal, and fabric. 

Alan Kerlin
Gungahlin Community Council spokesman

Alan Kerlin is a volunteer for the Gungahlin Community Council - as the president from 2006 to 2010, and a media spokesman since then. They've been fruitful years, with strong gains in the areas of planning, transport and the environment. In 2011, a community art idea that Alan and another GCC member conceived was realised – to have The Monster That Ate Canberra immortalised in a statue. A large but very friendly bronze Alexander Bunyip now resides outside the Gungahlin Library, encouraging new generations of Canberra children to go into the library and start reading.
Although Alan was born in Queensland and spent a lot of his life there - mainly on the Sunshine Coast - he first lived in Canberra as a child in the 1960s and 70s. Some of his earliest memories include watching Neil Armstrong step onto the moon on Red Hill Primary's only black and white TV, and being one of the first students at the new Scullin Primary, when it was right on the outskirts of town adjoining sheep paddocks.

He now finds himself with a certain amount of déjà vu again living on the outskirts of Canberra, opposite sheep paddocks in Harrison's Wells Station. “Canberra is a gorgeous city with postcard pictures everywhere you go, and it's a wonderful place to bring up children.”

Alan’s work history includes being elected to Queensland’s Maroochy Shire Council, Landcare, IT, small business, and with the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations managing the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme – a program that has helped many people turn their art into businesses.