Art has the capacity to speak to the soul, transform lives, and greatly enrich one's life or work environments, private or civic. For me it is as important, and as nourishing, as food or water, an integral part of human history for tens of millennia ...
Embracing the creativity of founding and working within different platforms in the arts for over forty years, while raising three children, has allowed for a richly diverse life. Over decades, it has been my deep privilege and pleasure to undertake art pilgrimages to far corners of the world; to work with and learn from a host of artists, great gallerists, museum staff and Directors, collectors, and technical experts; and to walk alongside clients on long-term journeys of discovery. Combining insight, judgement, intellectual rigour and specialist knowledge has been life-enhancing for myself and those whom I have worked with.
Formal roles have included: founding Director to establish and then lead the Möet & Chandon New Zealand Art Foundation (1988-1997); appointed to the founding Advisory Board for Auckland University’s Centre for Projects in the Arts; appointed to then elected Chair of Auckland Council’s Advisory Panel for Public Art from 2009-2013; Trustee, New Zealand Maritime Museum 2008-2018, working towards transformational change to achieve a sustainable future for the Museum.
Publications have included authoring and producing a number of private books on art collections; commissioned in 2011 by Penguin to produce Journey, a collaboration with Pippa Blake to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sir Peter Blake's death; co-edited Alan Miller New Zealand Photographs, 2010; and co-edited with Professor Wystan Curnow, Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the Nineties, Longmans, 1991.
