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Board members

Stuart St Hill  // Chair // Stuart is a musician who plays the trumpet in the seven piece Newcastle based Jump-Jive Jazz, Swing and Rhythm & Blues band Fish Fry. Stuart also coaches football and spends considerable time and energy exponding the virtues of the Arts to the sporting contingency. Stuart lives in Scone where he runs a computer IT business.

Janice Hanicar // Deputy Chair // has lived in Singleton for twenty five years and worked as a play group worker for Singleton Family Support. Four years ago Janice returned to TAFE to commence a diploma in Fine Arts, where her passion is sculpture. Janice is an active in a number of diverse arts groups in the region. Janice was co-opted onto the board in 2007.

Cr Ian Lloyd QC // Treasurer// is the Dungog Shire Council representative. Ian is a QC who specialises in criminal law. He believes that the arts play a crucial role in a healthy community and that this will become more obvious and valued when other things become more insecure.

Cr Karen Portolan is the Muswellbrook Shire Council's representative. Karen has 3 young children and grew up in a rural community. She is very aware of the integral role our cultural activities play in defining our community identity and establishing social frameworks. It is important to her that our younger generations gain the value and positive influence of our cultural heritage. Karen has experienced the joys of writing and music and is working to ensure that our cultural community is supported, recognized and developed.

Stephen Bottomley has lived and learnt in the vineyards of the Upper hunter for the past 18 years. He is currently the Director of Roseglen Wines and lives on a property just out of Denman. Prior to this Stephen studied sculpture at the NAS, his primary artform being stone carving. Stephen is the Muswellbrook community representative.

Cr Lyn McBain is Singleton Council's representative. Lyn is concerned about the environment and cultural impacts on our region. She is an artist with the Singleton Art Group, mainly watercolour medium and loves to promote local artistic abilities. Lyn is involved in many community activities, including Tidy Towns, the Mechanics Institute, the Family History Society of Singleton, the Singleton Hospital Trust and Singleton Heritage Advisory Committee.

Cr Julie Lyford is the Gloucester Shire Council's representative. Julie sees cultural development and the Arts as an integral part of healthy, progressive and inclusive communities. Julie is committed to enhancing and facilitating the promotion and growth of this vital area in the social fabric of our region. To this end she was the coordinator and editor of 'Gloucester the Life of a Community', a book produced to celebrate the International Year of the Volunteer. This is a wonderful resource, documenting every group within the Shire with humour and sensitivity.

Anne Fisher (Morris) studied at the canberra School of Art and the Victorian College of the Arts and has worked as a community artist since the 1970's. She is committed to encouraging the creative expression of individualsand the celebration of the uniqueness of regional Australian communitites. Anne is living and teaching in Dungog and is the community representative for the area.

Cr Pam Seccombe is the Upper Hunter Shire Council representative. Pam is a business woman with many years marketing experience in powerhouses like Unilever, American Express, Apple and Microsoft and running her own marketing consultancy, Pam now provides a range of consulting and people development services from customised Career Transition Coaching, Executive Coaching and Mentoring programs to the design and facilitation of tailored and in-house workshops. Pam has also been involved in providing life skills coaching to individuals in transition, either from their tertiary education to the workforce or in redefining their direction later in life. Pam has a love of and appreciation of the Arts although claims no artistic skill of her own!

 

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