What Rhana Devenport has planned for the Art Gallery of South Australia
In the face of recent funding cuts in South Australia, Devenport believes that the Art Gallery of SA remains pregnant with potential. On her fifth day in the job as Director, ArtsHub caught up with her plans.
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Rhana Devenport; courtesy Art Gallery of South Australia. Photo credit: Saul Steed.
After just five days in the job as the first female Director to lead the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) in its 137 year history, Rhana Devenport is unphased by noise around her gender coup.
She told ArtsHub: ‘I was also the first female Director at Auckland Art Gallery in its 125 years, so I don’t think about it so much.’
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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