Bree Pickering, Director National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Image: Supplied.
Canberra couldn’t be any more different than Noosa, as far as its goes. But it’s still not surprising that Queensland-born Bree Pickering is at home in the diplomatic heart of Australia, as the new Director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG).
In 2012, she was ensconced in another political hotspot – Washington DC (US) – where she was the Cultural Program Manager and Curator for the Australian Embassy under then Ambassador Kim Beasley.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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