Victoria Lister – President
Victoria has worked for a combined 17 years – as board member, manager, volunteer and in service delivery roles – in 14 different nonprofit and community organisations spanning the arts, disability, economic development, education and training, employment services, food technology, small business and youth sectors.
In 2009 she completed a Master of Business in Nonprofit and Philanthropic Studies at QUT, and in 2010 established Nonprofit Assist, an enterprise dedicated to helping small-to-medium organisations with governance training, strategic planning, peer support services and more.
Currently, Victoria also sits on the boards of Bremer TAFE and the Business Enterprise Centre Ipswich Region and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Women on Boards and the Queensland Council of Social Services.
For more information visit nonprofitassist.net.au, where you can also read Victoria’s nonprofit blog.
Doug Ranie – Secretary
Doug is currently employed as a Business Manager at a Government Owned Corporation and has management experience across multiple disciplines such as Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology and Health and Safety.
He has served as Treasurer of a Not-for-Profit (Aged Care) organisation, undertakes the role of Company Secretary for his current project and has successfully completed the AICD Company Directors Course.
Oddur Augustsson – Treasurer
Oddur was born in Iceland and has lived in Australia since the time his parents moved back to Brisbane in 1976. Growing up, he was always drawn to the arts as an outlet, participating in school and youth orchestras through the Franciscan Colleges Instrumental Program and QYO on violin, and earning the Senior Art Prize in his final year at Padua College.
His enjoyment and participation has not waned as an adult, and he particularly enjoys choral singing. At various times, Oddur has sung with The Queensland Kodály Choir, Tongues of Fire, Q.P.A.C., Roar, and Chordiality community choirs.. sometimes several of them at once! Oddur was President of Odyssey Creative Productions Associations Inc. during the time of their migration from heritage premises at Herston to taking on a commercial lease and proprietorship of The Globe Theatre, a venue for live music, theatre and cult cinema in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. More recently, Oddur has joined the wonderful volunteer community that supports Queensland Folk Federation’s Woodford Folk Festival and The Dreaming, Australia’s International Indigenous Festival, assisting green room function at the festivals via Artist Transfers. He cherishes memories of meeting Katie Noonan, Alexis Wright, drummers for Taikoz, Ernie Dingo and Deborah Mailman as personal highlights of festival volunteering.
Oddur has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland and works with the Internal Audit Unit of Queensland’s Department of Community Safety. He is an Associate Member of CPA Australia, and is eager to extend his burgeoning skills in governance, risk and internal control on his journey to CPA status through participation in the Management Committee of Access Arts Inc.
Cate Farrar – Committee Member
Cate has over 20 years experience in the creative industries working across the visual arts, youth arts, cultural development and disability sectors. With a background in marketing, education and organisational management, and was a recipient of a Margaret Lawrence Bequest Fellowship in 2008. Cate has a good understanding of regional arts and worked at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville. In 2005, she joined Youth Arts Queensland as CEO and was responsible for the overall business and artistic development of the organisation until August 2009.
Currently Cate is part of the Senior Executive team at Multicap, a leading disability services provider supporting people with multiple disabilities. She a passionate believer in and supporter of the arts; and is particularly motivated to strengthen Access Arts in order for it to be best placed to support artists with disability.
Evan Jones – Committee Member
I was born in Brisbane during the post-war boom. Most of my school days were in Brisbane, though I also lived as a child in Rockhampton, Townsville and Adelaide. The dance teacher who played the greatest role in my formative years was Elsie Seguss. Other teachers important in my development here in Australia were Jackie Parker, Anne Roberts, Leslie White, Don Kingston, Martin Rubinstein, Jacqui Carroll and Brian Coughran. I passed the R.A.D. Solo Seal in 1968, the year in which I also matriculated from the Brisbane Grammar School.
At 18, I went to study at Rosella Hightower’s “Centre de Danse International” in Cannes, France. My first professional engagement was with the Marseille Opera Ballet. There followed contracts with Roland Petit in Marseille, Gerhard Bohner and Morley Wiseman in Darmstadt, Germany, and Fred Howald, Egon Madsen and William Forsythe in Frankfurt. I then took up the position of Ballet Master and assistant to the Director, Andris Plucis, at the Staastheater Darmstadt. With all of these choreographers I participated in the creative as well as the performance processes, in many pieces as a soloist or principal dancer.
In 1997, after a quarter of a century dancing and teaching abroad, I returned to my home town to work as a lecturer in dance at QUT. In 2005, I completed the Master of Education (Higher Education) degree at QUT. In March, 1999, I was elected president of Ausdance (Qld), a position I held for two years. 2000 – 2005 I was the coordinator of the QUT, on-campus Dance courses. Currently, I am a member of the Creative Industries Faculty Equity Committee and Academic Board, member of the QUT Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union, unit coordinator and lecturer in undergraduate dance technique studies units and the postgraduate unit, “Introduction to Reflective Practice”.