2018 Opening address: Accession, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, City of Darebin, Bundoora 17 March 2018 2017 Opening address: Michael Winters: Dissected by time and space”, Orange regional Gallery, Orange, 14 October, 2017 Opening address: ‘Bruno Leti, Assonances’, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Collingwood, June 24, 2017 Opening address: The art of Lloyd Rees, Jon Cecil Fine Art, Red Hill, Victoria 22 May 2017 ‘Stations of the Cross 2017, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, 17 March 2017
2016 Opening address: Baldessin & Friends Portfolio, State Library of Victoria, 13 October 2016 Opening address: Ruth Faerber: Paper visionary, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 2 December 2016 Opening address: Sydney Printmakers 55th anniversary exhibition, Artsite Gallery, Camperdown, Sydney, 6 March 2016 Opening address: William Robinson, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 14 June 2016 Opening address: Udo Sellbach: And still I see it, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, 2 September 2016 Opening address: Garry Shead: The Divine Comedy, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 20 September 2016 Opening address: Thoroughly modern: The art of Ian Armstrong, Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill Town Hall, 21 September 2016
2015 Opening address: Sue Pickford: Mythologies. Icons and archetypes, Bosz Gallery, Brisbane, 27 March 2015 Opening address: Martin Coyte: Milk and honey, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange, 10 April 2015 Opening address: John Olsen exhibition, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, 25 July 2015 Opening address: Erwin Fabian at 100, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 5 November 2015
2014 Opening address: Impress Open Access Print workshop, Brisbane, 21 February 2014 Opening Address: Peter Boggs, Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW, 28 March, 2014 Opening address: Murray Walker exhibition, John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne, 28 June, 2014 Public launch: Inge King, National Gallery of Victoria, 30 August 2014 Opening address: Bruno Leti, Museo Italiano, Melbourne, 7 October 2014 Launch of Wildlife Museum of Australia, Melbourne, 15 October 2014
2013 Opening address: Murray Walker and Mark Schaller: Works on paper and canvas from around the world, Chapman and Bailey, Melbourne, 10 April 2013 Opening Address: Fifth Anniversary, The Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria, November 2, 2013 Opening address: Barbie Kjar exhibition, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra 2013
2012 Opening address: Unique states seriality and the panoramic: A survey exhibition of three decades of prints by Raymond Arnold, Burnie, Tasmania, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, 26 October 2012 Opening address: Ken Unsworth: Drawing Retrospective, ADFA, Canberra, 15 March 2012 Opening address: Lineage: David Fairbairn: Selected portraits 1998-2010, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 31 March, 2012 Opening Address: Made in Cuba: Contemporary Cuban Art, High Court, Canberra, 15 April, 2012 Opening address: Clive Stephen and Clifford Last, McClelland Sculpture Park, Victoria, 29 July 2012
2011 Opening address: Erwin Fabian, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 1st March 2011 Opening address: Heather B Swann, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, 30 March 2011 Launched Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Tomasso Durante ‘Limes’ Melbourne University, Ian Potter Gallery, 7 April 2011 Opening address: The promised land: The art of Lawrence Daws, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National trust, Observatory Hill, Sydney 24 June 2011 Opening address: Raymond Arnold: A History of Printmaking, Australian Galleries, Smith St, Collingwood, 28 July 2011 Opening address: Angela Cavalieri: Parole Viaggianti, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 19 September 2011 Opening address: Bruno Leti: Survey 40 years of printmaking, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne, 6 October 2011 Opening address: Kaye Mahoney: Moving imagery, Goulburn Regional Gallery, 8 October, 2011 Opening address: Blake Prize for Religious Art, Sydney, 2011 Opening address: Union with reality: The art of Leonard Brown, QUT, Brisbane, 27 October 2011 Opening address and book launch: ROAR, Re-Viewed 30 years on, ROAR Gallery, 787 High Street, Armadale, November 2011
2010 Opening address: Megalo artists-in-residence exhibition, Megalo Access Studio, Canberra, 20 May, 2010 Launched Peter Sculthorpe/Garry Shead,Journeys into Australia, ABC DVD, Sydney, 7 May 2010 Opening address: Artists’ prints made with integrity, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 9 July 2010 Opening address: Thornton Walker: The stillness in movement, Bett Gallery, Hobart, 10 September 2010 Opening address: Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, National Archives, Canberra September 2010
2009 Opening address: Portrait Artists of Australia ‘Unsung heroes’, Parliament House, Canberra, 2 September 2009 Opening address: Ron McBurnie: Metal as anything, Perc Tucker Townville Regional Gallery, 26 June 2009
2008 Opening address: Crossfire: print and glass, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 9 May 2008 Opening address: From ocean to harbour: Recent work by members of the Warringah Printmakers Studio, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 13 June 2008 Opening address: Artists’ Society of Canberra 81st Spring Exhibition, 2008, Albert Hall, Canberra 2 October 2008 Opening address: Ruth Faerber and Catherine K, City and coast, Marianne Newman Gallery, Crows Nest, 10 October 2008
2007 Opening address: Matrix 6, Megalo Access Arts, Canberra, 30 March 2007 Opening address: European sensibilities: George Baldessin and his circle, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, 9 June 2007 Opening address: Judith and Garry Shead – a creative collaboration, Australian Galleries, Sydney, 29 Nov 2007
2006 Opening address: George Foxhill: A retrospective, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, December 2006 Opening address: Erwin Fabian Exhibition: Current works 2005-2006, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, November 2006 Opening address: David Larwill exhibition, Solander Gallery, Canberra, July 2006
2005 Opening address: Margaret Cilento: Circus – Dream and reality, Eva Breuer, Sydney, 18 June, 2005
2003 Opened the Persian Art Gallery, Canberra, together with Minister Bill Wood and Mr Alhabib, Iranian, Chargé d’affaires, July 2003
2002 Opening address: Slavica Zivkovic: Works on paper, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, Sept 2002
2001 Opening address: Shoot at the artist, Slovenian Ministry for Culture exhibition, ANCA Gallery, Canberra, (June) 2001 Opening address: Czech Modernism in art exhibition, High Court, Canberra (for the Czech Government), November 2001
2000 Opening address: Garry Shead: Artist and Muse, Australian Galleries, Sydney, May 2000 Opening address: Intellectual landscapes of Helen Geier, Canberra Museum and Gallery, ‘ August 2000 Opening address: Brett Whiteley Print Retrospective, Art Gallery of NSW, Brett Whiteley Studio, September 2000 Opening address: Nora Heysen: A retrospective, National Library of Australia, Canberra, October 2000 Opening address: George Gittoes: World Diary, Queensland University of Technology, 2000
1999 Opening address: National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition: Romanticism and Realism in European art, Albury Regional Art Gallery, March 1999 Opening address: Helen Geier: Different fields of Vision, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore, 1999 Opening Address: The digital print in contemporary printmaking in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region, Lasalle SIA, Singapore, 1999 Opening address, Garry Shead: Art and the Muse, Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane, 1999
1997 Opening address: Graphic works by Giedrius Jonaitis, Canberra School of Art, 1997 Opening address: Survey exhibition of the work of the Aboriginal artist Treahna Hamm, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, 1997 Opening address: Lithuanian Ex-Librises, Studio One Gallery, Canberra, 1997 Opening address: Andrew Sibley's Mad Lovers portfolio, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, 1997
1996 Opening address: John Brack survey exhibition, Geelong Art Gallery 1996
1995 Opening address: Survey exhibition Robert Boynes and New Sculpture: Vlasé Nikoleski, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 1995 Opening address: Wendy Stavrianos: Mantles of Darkness exhibition, Nolan Gallery, Lanyon ACT, 1995