 Professor Andrea Hull AO recently retired as the Director (CEO) of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) after 15 years of service. Through the outstanding international and national achievements of its alumni and staff it is widely regarded as Australian’s pre-eminent artists training and education institution.
Professor Hull's topic is ‘Unaccountable Passion – how the arts defy the hubris of managerialism’.
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Prior to the VCA she was the Chief Executive of the Western Australian Department for the Arts, a department including museums, libraries, galleries, film, arts and cultural capital works and during which she pioneered the concept of putting the arts onto a State wide economic and social agenda. She has also been a member of a wide variety of cultural and educational boards, most recently the National Museum of Australia, The National Gallery of Victoria, and the Melbourne Theatre Company
In 2003 she was awarded the Order of Australia for services to the arts, arts education and cultural policy. In 2004 she was awarded The Achievers Award in Creativity and Innovation by the Committee for Melbourne. She is regarded as one of the nation’s leading cultural policy and program conceptualists – with the ability to envision and implement relevant goals and strategies.
RSVP deadline: 10 November 2009
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