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PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD
As with previous years, this has been a demanding but successful one for the
Art Gallery. During the year, we were active in fundraising and one of the major
initiatives in this regard celebrates the past by taking a step into the future.
David Gonski, Dorothy & Fred Street, Bob Carr
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This is the formation of the Centenary Fund to
commemorate 100 years of Australian Federation in 2001
and a century since the completion of the original galleries
of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The Centenary
Fund will raise money for building projects and aims to
recruit 100 patrons, each of whom pledges $100,000 over
a designated period of time. It was launched in February
2000 and had 21 patrons signed up by the end of the
financial year.
The first project to be underwritten by the Fund is a
new 100 seat auditorium, which will be completed in
2001. It replaces the small auditorium which had to be
demolished to make way for the expanded Gallery Shop
this year. The relocation of the Shop enabled the creation
of the Dorothy Street Galleries of Twentieth Century
Australian Art, which give a fresh and exciting focus to
that area of the collection.
The President’s Council has continued to provide
invaluable help in many aspects of the Art Gallery’s life.
Primarily, the President’s Council has assisted in funding
part of our exhibition programme and also in helping us
to find new ways in which to fundraise. Membership of
the President’s Council was increased during the year.
I welcome the five new Council members: Ken Borda,
Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank AG; Peter Ivany,
Ivany Investment Group; Daniel Gauchat, Vice-President
Korn/Ferry; Fred Hilmer, Chief Executive Officer, John
Fairfax Holdings Limited, and Angela Clark, Managing
Director, JCDecaux Australia.