After three years as Executive Director, Esther Anatolitis is moving on from the National Association of the Visual Arts (NAVA). Here she reflects on challenges, triumphs and the opportunity for new thinking.
Esther Anatolitis presenting NAVA’s In These Critical Times at MPavilion, Melbourne on 1 February 2019. Photo Daniel Gardeazabal.
In a surprise announcement, Esther Anatolitis – NAVA’s bold, bubbly, passionate, political and red shoe-wearing Executive Director – has announced she will be moving on from the peak national body for the visual arts in August.
Her reason was simple. Her contract was up. ‘I believe leadership needs to be dynamic, and at this moment of reflection, I look into the future rather than hold on to now. One of the best ways dynamism continues within an organisation is to step aside,’ Anatolitis told ArtsHub.
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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