People

Board of Directors

Dr Terry Wu, Chair

Dr Terry Wu is a long-standing arts advocate and supporter, and a leading plastic surgeon specialising in facial reconstruction. He is also a Board Member of Science Gallery International (Dublin) and serves as a Member of Creative Australia’s Venice Biennale Ambassadors Council. He was formerly a Board Director of ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Heide Museum of Modern Art, and the National Association of Visual Arts, and a member of the International Council of Tate (UK). As the son of an artist and writer, Terry is passionate about arts, culture and philanthropy and in 2019 was awarded the Emerging Philanthropy Leadership Award by Creative Partnerships Australia.

Terry has served on the ACCA Board since 2019 and was appointed Chair in 2024.

Charlotte Day

Charlotte is Director of Art Museums at the University of Melbourne, with oversight of Buxton Contemporary and The Potter Museum of Art. Previously Director of Monash University Museum of Art, Charlotte has more than twenty-five years’ experience as a curator and arts manager. She was formerly an Associate Curator at ACCA, a Director for Centre for Contemporary Photography and has held positions on several arts boards and local, state and federal government arts and funding panels.

Lisa Fox

Lisa is a philanthropist and dedicated advocate for contemporary art and artists. Having driven several major artist commissions, her passion for supporting Australian First Nations art and work by women has been transformative in the Melbourne landscape. Lisa divides her time between Melbourne, Paris, and New York, and has facilitated several exchange programs for Australian artists in France. As the Chair of the Musée Picasso Foundation and a board member of the Fox Family Foundation, Lisa plays a key role in the philanthropic efforts of both organisations and her own initiatives.

Patricia Piccinini

Patricia Piccinini is a contemporary artist who is interested in what it means to be alive in the present day. She creates a world somewhere between the one we know and one that is almost upon us. She focuses on the emotional lives of the new creatures that might emerge, along with our relationships with them and with nature. Her world is one of questions rather than answers. Instead of telling the viewer what to think she asks them how they feel when confronted by possibilities. Patricia has exhibited all over the world, including representing Australia at the 2003 Venice Biennale. In 2013 she created the Skywhale for the Centenary of Canberra. Her 2021 exhibition, “A Miracle Constantly Repeated” occupied the abandoned ballroom above Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. She is currently a Professor of Practice at RMIT University.

Sarah Lynn Rees

Sarah Lynn Rees is an associate and Lead Indigenous Advisor at Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, is a Lecturer at Monash University and program advisor and curator of the BLAKitecture series for MPavilion. She is Director of Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture, a member of the Victorian Design Review Panel for the Office of the Victorian Government Architect, and Co-Chair of the Australian Institute of Architects First Nations Advisory Working Group.

Dr Theresia Spencer

Dr Theresia Spencer a specialist orthodontist with particular interest in paediatric and surgical orthodontics. She holds a Doctor of Clinical Dentistry degree (Orthodontics) and is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons. Dr Spencer has taught orthodontics at the University of Melbourne, and she is a spokesperson and committee member of the Australian Society of Orthodontists. She is an Invisalign Faculty Member and international lecturer. Dr Spencer is an Australian Ambassador for the Venice Biennale. She is also a committee member of the Scotch College Parents Association.

Gordon Thomson, Chair, Finance Audit and Risk Committee

Gordon is a partner in PwC’s Accounting Advisory Group. He has over 20 years’ experience in accounting and finance and specialises in a range of industries with a particular focus on the Government and Not for Profit sectors. Gordon is passionate about the arts, with a particular interest in the visual arts.

John Tuck

John is a specialist in complex and contentious workplace matters and litigation, and a trusted adviser to state and federal governments, boards, major Australian businesses and institutions on the issues that affect their operations and reputations. John is also one of Australia’s leading advisers on Royal Commissions, Judicial Inquiries, regulatory and integrity commissions and whistle-blower laws. 

John is a Vincent Fairfax Fellow on Ethics. He is the Australian Representative for lus Laboris the Chambers Elite Global Employment Alliance, a member of the University of Melbourne Law School Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law Advisory Board, and a board member of RMIT University Law School Juris Doctor Advisory Board.

Yalingwa Directions Circle

Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO (Chair)
Kylie Belling
Belinda Briggs
Hetti Perkins
Stacie Piper
Hannah Presley

Associate Elders

N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM