Clive Scott has more than 45 years of experience in the hospitality industry, For the past 26 years, Clive has held various key leadership roles with Accor Hotels across Australia. He was the General Manager of Sofitel Melbourne on Collins for the past 18 years, making him one of the longest running hotel General Managers in Melbourne.

Clive is actively involved in Melbourne’s business and arts communities. He is a Board member of the Oceania Australia Foundation and The Museum of Australian Photography, Chairman of the Melbourne Prize Foundation and has held the position of Chairman of Judges for the Melbourne Awards since 2016.   He is also a member of the Hope Street Youth & Family Services Advisory Board, Melodies of Peace Board and Chairman of the Finucane & Smith Advisory Board. In 2021 Clive was appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division) for services to Hospitality and the Arts. 

He has also assisted with fundraising and development for many key players in the Melbourne Arts scene, such as Chunky Move Dance Company, Australian National Academy of Music, Craft Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, The Australian Ballet, The National Gallery of Victoria, Victorian Opera and The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Phil Bretherton (he/him) is a partner at Donegan's Accountants. Phil completed a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) at RMIT and is also a CPA, a Registered Tax Agent and a Chartered Tax Adviser.

Damien Hodgkinson (he/him) works as Executive Director with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. His career includes cultural leadership positions in the areas of organisational management and governance, communications and marketing, and private support. Recent appointments include roles as Executive Director Operations with the Australia Business Arts Foundation and General Manager/CEO of Melbourne Fringe.

Damien has served as Chair of Polyglot Theatre and is currently a board member of Arts Project Australia and the Georges Mora Foundation. He is also a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the Arts and Entertainment Management Program in the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University.

Sam Mora (he/him) is a carpenter specialising in cabinetry and renovation work. Sam has assisted several construction projects in East Timor, Sri Lanka and most recently volunteers with Solve Disability Solutions in Melbourne.

He has an appreciation for the arts stemming from a childhood spent with Georges Mora and Caroline Williams Mora, and is a proud member of the Georges Mora Fellowship Board.

Caroline Field (she/her) is widely recognised for her extensive knowledge of Australian art and her experience in the museum industry, as exhibition curator and collections manager. Since 2016 Caroline has been Curator of the Australian Catholic University Art Collection. Her previously held positions include Manager, Exhibitions and Curatorial Projects, Australian Galleries Melbourne; Director of the City of Horsham Regional Art Gallery; Curator of the Deakin University Art Collection; Founding Director of Deakin University’s Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Toorak campus, and the ICON Museum of Art (now Deakin University Gallery), Burwood campus. Caroline is a contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and a valuer for the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program. She has undertaken a Writer’s Residency at the Bundanon Trust, NSW, and been awarded an Honorary Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria. Her publication Australian Galleries: The Purves Family Business, The First Four Decades 1956 –1999 was published in 2019.

Rodney James is an Australian art consultant, curator, and author.

I was the inaugural recipient of the State Library of Victoria’s Dr Joseph Brown AO Fellowship for Art History (2008), shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship (2014) and awarded a Gordon Darling Foundation Global Travel Award (2006). My most recent book Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art was published by Miegunyah Press, University of Melbourne, and the winner of the 2024 Victorian Premier’s History Award. 

I am a former lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts, Monash University, Education Officer, Queensland Art Gallery and Senior Curator, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria. Since 2013 I have served as Co-Principal, Rodney James Art, an Australia-wide art consultancy specialising in art valuations, collection management, exhibitions, independent research​and writing and strategic planning for galleries and museums.

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