West Space has a large and dedicated community of peers that regularly participate in the organisation. Across the Staff, Board and Program Committee there are around thirty key members.
Danny Lacy has been Director of West Space since July 2012. He previously worked as Curator at Shepparton Art Museum (2010-12), Program Administrator at Monash University Museum of Art (2007-10), Installation & Project Co-ordinator at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2005-6) and Gallery Assistant at Gertrude Contemporary...
Kelly Fliedner is an arts writer, curator and Program Curator of West Space. She is also currently part of Next Wave Festival’s Curatorial Advisory Committee, co-editor of upcoming online publications The West Wing and West Space Journal both launching in early 2013, and is working with Phip Murray conducting a broad qualitative...
Christina Apostolidis has recently joined the West Space team from the Centre for Contemporary Photography, where she worked as Front of House Manager since 2010. Christina also has a background in PR and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research) in Visual Culture, 2010 and a Bachelor of Communications (Public Relations), 2007...
Sheena Colquhoun is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Monash University, majoring in sculpture. Sheena assists with a range of roles at West Space including administration and programming support, and is responsible for overseeing West Space on Saturdays.
Rosina Prestia graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Rosina assists with the delivery of West Space special events and after hours programming and is involved with logistics and planning for West Space projects, including the Annual Fundraiser and the ongoing Port Journeys project.
Tamsen Hopkinson recently graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Art History and Philosophy from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland and The University of Melbourne. Tamsen assists with the documentation of the West Space artistic program, media & marketing strategies and...
Laura Couttie is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art History at the University of Melbourne. Laura has been a volunteer at West Space since 2010. In her role as International Visitors Program Intern she is involved with the delivery of West Space’s 20th Anniversary Program Dialogue & Exchange: International...
Amy Stuart, Bianca Tibos, Colleen Chen, Cat Motschall, Catherine Paglia, Charlotte Alldis, Chelsea Hopper, Chris Ackroyd, Dani Hakim, Dani Mielo, Delia Matthews, Emma Anderson, Grace Wood, Gen Honey, Heather Oglivie, Heidi Tatchell, Jenny Nguyen, Jessica Knight, Jonathon Nokes, Kat Prummer, Merryn Llloyd, Michaela Bruton, Miriam...
Patrick Pound is a Melbourne based artist.
His work is held in the collections of the NGV, the National Gallery in Canberra, Auckland Art Gallery, the Museum of New Zealand, the Christchurch City Art Gallery and many other corporate and private collections. He has held over 50 solo exhibitions and been in numerous curated shows in New Z...
Veronica Kent is a Melbourne-based artist who is best known for her ongoing collaborative work The Telepathy Project. Telepathy serves as an extended metaphor and a working methodology through which she and her partner in telepathy, Sean Peoples, explore other possible ways of being, communicating, imagining and collaborating. Her...
Cheree Tucker is a senior accountant at Lowensteins Arts Management. She has a Bachelor of Science and of Business (Accounting) and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in November 2004. Cheree has been involved with not for profit accounting and audit since 2002.
Bill is a Barrister in private practice in Melbourne. He works pro-bono with a number of not-for-profit organisations, including Heide Museum of Modern Art, UN Magazine, The Opera Studio, Living Museum West and Astor Cinema. He wears alternate hats as an historian and referee of Rugby. He recently participated as a technical official ...
Brad Haylock is an artist, designer and writer who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He is a Lecturer in Visual Communication at Monash University. He holds an Honours Degree in Visual Communication from Monash University and a PhD from RMIT University. He is a member of the Program Committee and the Board of West Space, and...
Terri is an artist and lecturer in the Department of Fine Arts at Monash University. Her practice investigates materiality, as a way of re-thinking of the relations of matter outside the customary binaries of form, meaning and content, to reconfigure the production of sites and situations differently. Her works have been included in...
Lyndal Walker has exhibited at all sorts of galleries including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Modern Culture, New York, La Panaderia, Mexico City, After Hours Bar, Beijing, TCB, Melbourne and Murray White Room, Melbourne. She was one of the founders of both 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space and Citylights. She also has a ...
Joan Spiller combines Board Directorships with consultancy work, as Managing Partner of Welsearch Pty Ltd, specialising in strategic planning, and professional development.Her current Board Directorships include the Australian Art Orchestra (Chair), the Australian Centre for Effective Partnerships (ACEP) (Co-Director), and the Mietta F...
Rowan McNaught lives and works in Melbourne. He works across video, sculpture, sound and online with a focus on extracting/querying some of the new cultural models that we are making and using together now. Lately, he’s spending more time on participation in decentralised collaborative projects such as Taylors lake super colony. In...
Ben is a Melbourne based artist and teacher who has exhibited locally and internationally. He makes drawings and, what he considers, sculptural drawings. He is also the founding member of Ways and Means, a collaborative drawing project.
Tai Snaith has a multifaceted practice working as an independent artist, curator, producer and writer.Honesty, absurdity and animism heavily influence her artwork and ideas alongside a recurring focus on collaboration and experimentation. She draws and paints on paper, on the street and recently inside restaurants and houses.Using...
Kieran Stewart is a Melbourne based visual artist who works across the mediums of video, image making and sculptural installation. His practice revolves around the themes of exhaustive labour, systems of commercial promotion and gross capital production. Over the past seven years he has shown nationally in both artist-run initiatives a...
Fleur Summers is a lecturer in Sculpture with a focus on teaching developmental working processes with reference to spatial practice. Fleur began her academic life studying science and worked professionally as a Microbiologist for several years. This experience and ongoing interest in natural science informs and enriches her work...
Nick graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) from the VCA in 2009 and was awarded The Orloff Family Award, the Alliance Francaise Award, and the John Vickory Scholarship. He has recently exhibited in New York at The Divi- sion of Human Works gallery in Brooklyn, and was featured in the 2009 Blake Prize Director’s Cut exhi...
Ieuan resides and exhibits in Melbourne. He has worked at the VCA School of Art for the past five years. He has completed his Masters of Fine Art byResearch at the VCA in 2007, previously finishing his BFA at the CanberraSchool of Art in 1989. He has also studied sound, and graphic design. Hehas exhibited in Canberra, Sydney...
West Space Board, Suzie Attiwill, Matthew Self, Juliet Frizzell and Patrick Pound, Carmel Schweitzer Trust, Phip Murray, Chase & Galley and JCP Studios.
West Space would like to gratefully thank the following Benefactors who assisted us in realising the capital works project at 225 Bourke Street in 2011: they literally helped us build t...
West Space is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
West Space is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.
West Space gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Melbourne through its Arts and Culture Triennial Program
West Space is a member of CAOs, Contemporary Art Organisations Australia network.