VISCOPY - Board and Directors

CHAIRMAN - Oliver Freeman
Oliver Freeman is a director of the Neville Freeman Agency which he co-founded with Richard Neville in 2002. Mr. Freeman is also a publisher, a profession he entered in 1967 as an academic rep for McGraw Hill in the UK. He has been Managing Director of various companies since 1978 with a special emphasis on academic, business and professional topics. In 1992, he was co-founder of GBN Australia with Professor Richard Bawden and Dr Richard Hames.

Oliver directed the Australian Business Foundation's "Alternative Futures" project and has undertaken many recent scenario planning and "futuring" projects. He has an MA from the University of Oxford and an MA from the University of Essex. He is past chairman of Publish Australia, the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) and also Australia's leading independent academic publisher UNSW Press. He is past Vice President of the Australian Publishers Association, and a director of Sticky Corp Pty Ltd. Oliver was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Technology Sydney in 2004.

He has a lifelong interest in the visual arts (his parents were painters), and in the nexus between arts and business.

TREASURER & COMPANY SECRETARY - John Fries, B. Comm (Hons); FCPA; MAICD; MACT (UK); JP
John Fries has more than 40 years experience in finance, accountancy and administration. He is currently Deputy Chairman of Tribeca Learning Limited (a public listed company); Honorary Treasurer and Director of Australian Red Cross NSW, as well as serving as a director on other not-for-profit organisations and private companies in which he has an interest.

John was formerly Finance Director of Vodaphone Group in Australia, and prior to that Finance Director of McIlwraith McEacharn Limited-Oakbridge Limited and Great Northern Mining Limited (all public listed companies). For 12 years from early 1970's, John was a Management Consultant in both London (Coopers and Lybrand) and Sydney. He has an Honours degree in Commerce from UNSW, is a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Member, Associate of Corporate Treasurers (UK). He is also a Justice of the Peace.

BOARD MEMBER - Greg Barns, Writer, Barrister, Company Director
Greg is a regular columnist in a number of Australian and international newspapers and author of two books on Australian politics. Greg is also a member of the Tasmanian Independent Bar. He was inaugural CEO of the Australian Gold Council, and previously the National Campaign Director for the Australian Republican Movement (ARM) throughout 1999. Greg was Chief of Staff to the Federal Minister for Finance, Hon. John Fahey MP. He has also been the Chief of Staff to former Premier of Tasmania, Ray Groom; a research analyst for the Tasman Institute and a member of the Victorian Bar Council. Greg was Chairman of ARM from 2000-2002.

Greg is non-executive director of Republic Gold Ltd, Strata Mining NL, and an Advisory Board member of Parker & Partners Public Affairs, and a Councillor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

BOARD MEMBER - Adam Simpson, L.L.B. B.Com
Adam is currently a Principal of Simpsons Solicitors, a firm focusing in intellectual property and advice to a wide range of clients in the media, technology, arts and entertainment industries. Simpsons Solicitors is ranked in the top 3 firms in the area of Entertainment Law.

Adam is convenor of the Contemporary Music Industry Working Group (CWMG), and co-author of "Power and the Passion-Report on the Australian Contemporary Music Industry Round Table Process". The CMWG represents members of the Australian Contemporary Music Industry such as APRA, PPCA and the Austereo Group.

Adam has also been a volunteer solicitor for Arts Law Centre of Australia and a visiting lecturer at the University of Western Sydney.

BOARD MEMBER - Joyce Parszos
Joyce Parszos has worked as project director across numerous innovative programs in association with academics, journalists. medical and scientific research professionals, universities, as well as local, state, federal and international governments.

Joyce was the first Public Relations and Development Manager of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), and as part of a small team played a key role in the seminal phase of the development of this major Australian art institution. Joyce was also Manager of Public Affairs with the Motor Accidents Authority of NSW (MAA) and was responsible for the development and management of the MAA's five year Paralympian Program. Joyce serves as Director on the Board of the Australian Paralympic Committee. She has also been a national judge for the Australian Financial Review Magazine Partnership Awards which recognise excellence and outstanding business achievement in sponsorship/partnership programs across the country.

Joyce currently directs a communications and partnership consultancy, Faro Management.

BOARD MEMBER - Tom Mosby (Biography pending)

ARTIST REPRESENTATIVE - Pat Hoffie, Phd (UNSW), MFA (Wollongong), DipT (QUT), DipFA (QCA)
Pat is an artist based in Brisbane who exhibits regularly in Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region.

She is a regular contributor to Australian art journals and works as Associate Professor at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. She has served on the Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council, Arterial Inc., as President of the IMA, Brisbane, and is currently a board member of NAVA.

For some time her art practice has focused on the effects cross-cultural impact on contemporary imagery.

ARTIST REPRESENTATIVE - Sally Smart
Sally Smart has an established reputation as one of Australia's leading feminist artists. With over 20 solo exhibitions to her credit, Sally's work featured in a number of significant touring exhibitions, including the Moet and Chandon Touring Exhibitions in 1991, 1992, 1994 & 1995. In 1998, she was awarded the Arts Victoria Women Artists Grant.

Sally's work has been exhibited in Korea, Japan, Singapore, Brazil, and New Zealand among others. Her installation work "Family TreeHouse" was selected by an international curatorium for inclusion in the Project Room section of the Contemporary Art Fair, Arco, in Madrid in 2000.

She is represented in numerous public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne, the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery and the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

ARTIST REPRESENTATIVE - Banduk Marika
Banduk is the youngest daughter of the great Mawalan (c1908-1967) and sister to Wandjuk (1930-1987), Bayngul and Dhuwarrwarr. She lived and worked in Sydney from 1980-88 then returned to Yirrkala to be manager of the Buku-Larrnggay Arts and Museum. In 1984 she was Artist-in-Residence at Canberra School of Art, and in 1986 Artist-in-Residence at Flinders University S.A.

Banduk has acted on the board of the National Gallery of Australia and the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. She has participated with the Australia Council. The local and effective landcare organisation of the Mawalan Gamarrwa Nuwul Association is run by her in Yirrkala where she is also a councilor for the Yirrkala Dhanbul Community Association.

In 1994 a judgement in the Federal Court awarded Banduk (and seven other artists) damages worth $185,000 against a company which stole images of the artists to produce carpets in Vietnam (none of which has been paid). In 1997 Banduk featured in a documentary entitled "Copyrights" shown on national television the following year. Banduk has always been outspoken on issues affecting her culture.

She is regarded as a pioneer and one of the outstanding proponents of indigenous printmaking and works with printmakers in Darwin, Sydney, Canberra and at her home community of Yirrkala. In 2002 she was awarded the Red Ochre Award which recognised her as one of Australia's most important indigenous artists.