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ICE Board of Management

Executive Members

Chairperson

ROSS GIBSON is a teacher and writer who also makes films and multimedia systems. His books include: ‘The Diminishing Paradise’ (1984); South of the West (1992); The Bond Store Tales (1996); Exchanges: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Australia and The Pacific (1996 edited) and Seven Versions of an Australian Badland (2002). He has written and directed award-winning films, including the internationally influential ‘Camera Natura’ (1985) and ‘Wild’ (1993). He has also curated several acclaimed exhibitions, notably the record-breaking ‘Crime Scene’ installation at the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney (1999, 2000), and ‘Remembrance + Moving Image’ at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (2003). He devises artistic content, architectural design and ICT systems for museums, public spaces and large dynamic databases. Examples include the Museum of Sydney where he was senior consultant producer from 1993-1996, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image where Ross was Creative Director during its establishment phase (1999- 2002). He is currently Research Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at University of Technology Sydney.

Deputy Chair

SUSAN GREEN is a Wiradjuri woman and academic whose work on Aboriginal welfare history and urban Aboriginal experiences has made a contribution to New South Wales, Aboriginal and welfare histories. Susan also won the NSW Indigenous History Fellowship (2000). Currently Associate Professor of Indigenous Education and Director of Nura Gili (Indigenous Programs at University of New South Wales), Susan holds a Bachelor of Social Work (Hons) from the University of Sydney and is currently working on a PhD.

Secretary

TILDA SIKES is the Secretary of ICE and currently works as the Membership Manager for Arc@UNSW. She has extensive experience with a range of arts and community organisations which includes holding board positions as President of the Greek-Australian Limnian Association of NSW and Vice-president, Community Arts Marrickville. She has produced radio features for Radio National, 2SER and 2RDJ and was a journalist for an English newspaper in Athens, Greek News. Her professional background includes her roles as Manager, Greek Festival of Sydney; Production Coordinator, Sydney Festival and Carnivale; Marketing Coordinator, Belvoir St Theatre; Corporate Affairs Manager at the Sydney Institute of Technology and a Marketing Manager at the University of Technology Sydney.

Treasurer

CAROLINE VU is a final year law student at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), completing her honours in copyright issues for Australian Indigenous cultural property. Currently employed at Pigott Stinson Ratner Thom Lawyers, she has held various positions in the UTS Students’ Association and the National Union of Students, and is active around issues of youth and cultural identity. She was one of six writers in the Vietnamese Australian publication, Memory Frame. Caroline was one of the key organisers of the Spectrum Cultural Ideas Festival in 2005, a conference for young people from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Deputy Treasurer

HEIDI FREEMAN has been on the ICE Management Committee since 1999. Heidi has worked in the field of community and cultural development for the past 20 years and in local government (in social and cultural planning and management of community development) and community sector organisations. She is currently works in policy analysis within Housing NSW and was previously the General Manager of Reverse Garbage Co-operative.

General Committee Members

TIFFANY LEE-SHOY is the Cultural Planner at Fairfield City Council Prior to this role, she coordinated a three-year strategic regional cultural planning project at the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC). Her work is focused on resourcing cultural development, promoting cultural life, arts and creativity in Western Sydney, and increasing opportunities for community participation. Previously, Tiffany was the Curator of Contemporary Art with Wollongong City Gallery and Director of a community cultural centre, where she initiated cultural and business partnerships and revised the strategic plans for the centre to enable its sustainability. Her own textile/ installation arts practice explores issues of cultural identity. Her work was included in the international group exhibition, “Blondinchen und Braunchen” in Munich, Germany.

NADYA HADDAD is a Sydney-based solicitor who has been a member of the ICE Management Committee since 2001. Nadya previously worked as the litigations solicitor at the Tenancy Union, was the Secretary of the Arab Australia Council and sat on the Board of the Australian Lebanese Welfare Group.

ILARIA VANNI teaches Italian Studies in the International Studies program at the University of Technology Sydney. Ilaria studied art history at the University of Siena, Italy, specialising in contemporary art. She moved to Australia to research her PhD thesis on the poetics and politics of exhibitions of Australian Indigenous objects in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Ilaria has published on contemporary art, Australian Indigenous art, and Italian Australian visual arts. Also a curator, Ilaria curated the Museum of Sydney’s “Italiani di Sydney”, the first exhibition of its kind to celebrate the diversity of Italian culture in Australia. She previously worked at the Australia Council for the Arts in the area of multicultural arts policy.

PAUL STUART is a Sydney-based arts administrator and currently holds the position of Sponsorship Manager with Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia’s leading Indigenous contemporary dance company. He has worked for a variety of organisations in the creative industries, including IMG Artists, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, State Theatre (Sydney) and Emap Advertising (London). A former professional actor, Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts (Theatre) from Charles Sturt University and has appeared on stage and in television and radio.