On the move: latest sector appointments

A long-serving CEO resigns, a Chair is appointed, and an Acting AD takes a youth company's helm.

Western Australia’s pvi collective have announced the appointment of Jeremy Smith as the company’s new Chair.

Living and playing in Boorloo/Perth, Smith works as Performing Lines WA’s Senior Producer, having previously been Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts’ General Manager and Director Of Experimental Arts and Community Arts at the Australia Council for the Arts. Working closely with artists, organisations and communities to promote artistic bravery, self-determination, authentic representation and brokering opportunities, Smith has spent considerable time on initiatives and projects born out of regional and remote Australia, as well as developing and delivering key arts and disability programs.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts