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The Board and staff of Geelong’s Platform Arts have announced that, after six years of passionate leadership, Ilana Russell will be stepping down from the Artistic Director and co-CEO role at the end of February 2025. She leaves Platform Arts to commence PhD study in 2025.
Russell stepped into the Director’s role in 2018, leading Platform Arts’ evolution from youth-designated arts space into a contemporary arts organisation, securing multi-year funding through Creative Australia, developing a nationally-reaching artist development program and supporting the establishment of the YOOKAPA First Nations program.
