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Art world to farewell MCA director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor

After 22 years at the helm, taking the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia from near insolvency to international acclaim, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor is stepping down. Why?

5 Mar 2021

Gina Fairley

Visual Arts

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor. Image supplied.

This week (3 March) the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) surprised the sector with the announcement that Director, Elizabeth Ann (Liz Anne) Macgregor OBE, will be ending her tenure after more than two decades at the helm.

The MCA said Macgregor will leave the position in October to allow the Museum, which is to celebrate its 30th anniversary this year, to transition as seamlessly as possible to a new Director.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina