Max Dingle OAM - employmentEmployment: 1961 - 1973 Royal Australian Navy - Air Maintenance Engineer – Electronics 1973 - 1976 Royal Australian Navy Reserve !973 - 1974 National Art School - Full time student 1973 - 1975 St Alban's Studio !975 - 1979 University Co operative Bookshops 1979 - 1984 Sydney Building Information Centre 1984 - 1993 Australian Museum 1993 Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation 1993 - 2009 Australian National Maritime Museum - Assistant Director 2008 to present - Artist, independent curator and writer Volunteer work for Museums, Associations, Friends and Volunteers etc : 1984 to 1996 Council Member, The Australian Museum Society 1985 to 2014 Executive, Australian Federation of Friends of Museums (AFFM) 1988 to 2008 Volunteer consultant for Lady Denman Heritage Centre, Huskisson 1994 to 1996 President, Museums Australia Friends and Volunteers Network 1994 to 1997 Council Member, (CAMA) Museums Australia 1996 to 2002 Chairman, Sydney 1999 Xth World Federation Congress 1997 to 2001 President, Australian Federation of Friends of Museums 1997 to 2001 Editor / publisher “Friends Review” newsletter 1997 to 2005 Australian Delegate, World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM) 1999 to 2000 Council Member, Museums Australia 2000 to 2003 Executive & Treasurer Museums Australia Council 2000 to 2009 President /Vice President Museums Australia Friends & Volunteers Network 2003 to present Donor , Griffin Theatre 2005 to 2009 Vice President, World Federation of Friends of Museums 2006 Chairman, Friends Promoting Museums, Africa, Asia & Pacific conference 2008 Bequest M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection to Shoalhaven Regional Gallery signed 2008 Fund raising tour of House & Collection for Jervis Bay & Basin “See Change Arts Festival” 2009 Curator Personal Journey: 40 years of Australian women’s abstract art Shoalhaven City Arts 2009 Shoalhaven City Arts Centre volunteers tour of house & collection 2010 Curator Black is the Colour… exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2010 to 2014 Shoalhaven City Council Arts Board 2010 Fund raising tour of house & collection for Jervis Bay & Basin “See Change Arts Festival” 2010 Curator New Acquisitions Exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2011 Curator Phaedra: Explorations in the Abstract exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2011 Fund raising tour of house & collection for Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2011 Curator Making Do : Art from found objects exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2011 Curator Matej Andraž Vogrinčič ’s Car Park - Members Only installation, Shoalhaven City Arts 2012 Curator Less is More: more or less exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2012 Linac Committee (sculpture selection and art advice) 2013 Curator Margaret Dredge – Retrospective 1960 to 2001 exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2013 Margaret Dredge – Retrospective 1960 to 2001 Guided tours Regional Gallery and Sussex Inlet 2013 to 2014 Donor, Performance Space 2014 Acting extra in Belvoir Theatre's Sydney Festival production Oedipus Schmoedipus (one rehearsal 20 Dec 13 plus two performances 4pm and 8pm Sat 1 February 2014 ) 2014 Acting extra in Performance Space / Sydney Festival The Redux Project - Aussie Mega Redux by Richard De Domenici. Extra in the Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome http://dedomenici.com/redux 2014 "Mental Health Art Award" Shoalhaven City Arts - Judge 2014 Curator "Samuel Elyard" exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2014 Curator " Elizabeth Cummings - Survey" exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 2014 Fund raising house/garden tour + lunch for 20 Jervis Bay & Basin "See Change Art Festival" 2014 to 2015 NOW - Jervis Bay & Basin Contemporary Art prize - organizing committee member 2014 Escape Artfest Alley Archies Portrait prize - Judge 2014 Escape Artfest "RIPE : Sculpture at Cupitt's" prize - Judge 2015 "NOW - Jervis Bay & Basin 2015 Contemporary Art prize - curator 2015 “The Metaphysical Edge” exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre – curator + guided tours 2016 Out of Earth and Flame : ceramics in the Shoalhaven City Arts Centre - curator + guided tour 2016 WAAM: its Women's Abstract Art Man! Jervis Bay Museum & Gallery - curator 2017 WAAM: its Women's Abstract Art Man! Jervis Bay Museum & Gallery - curator talks & guided tours 2017 Margaret Dredge: Works on Paper Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - curator + panel discussion 2018 SeeChange Art Festival Sandholme House exhibition - curator and judge 2018 Samuel Elyard: The Coastal Paintings exhibition Jervis Bay Museum & Gallery - curator 2018 Samuel Elyard: Cape St. George Lighthouse 1860 - 1899 exhibition Jervis Bay Museum - curator 2018 Vicki Varvaressos - figurative & abstract survey Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - curator 2018 Vicki Varvaressos exhibition SRG catalogue - writer & photographer 2018 22nd Symposium of Australian Gastronomy Committee (communications / sponsorship) 2018 Jambaroo exhibition Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - Panel discussion with 13 artists - Chair 2018 Jambaroo exhibition SRG - Host artists & partners, other guests for dinner (32 people) at Sussex 2018 Guy Warren exhibition SRG catalogue - art photographer 2019 SeeChange Art Festival - The Haven Art Award,exhibition of painting and sculpture - Curator 2019 SeeChange Art Festival - Exhibition/performance and FOH duties 2019 Kiama Art Society Annual Exhibition - Judge / Speaker 2019 Volunteer participant in Sydney Dance Company 50th anniversary performance "US 50" by Gideon Obarzanek on 5 November. Cast 25 dancers plus 25 volunteers joining in the last dance. 2020 SeeChange Art Festival - Curator / photographer Making Community Art on-line exhibition 2021 I want to dance with somebody Sydney Dance Group dance via video. with Richard Cilli 2021 Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - Curator Spaces in Bewteen - Virginia Coventry & Jan King 2022 Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - Curator Grace Burzese Survey 1995 - 2022 Main Gallery and Foyer 2023 - 25 Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - Curator "Death + Love = Art" (working title) Main Gallery 2027 Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - Curator " Leisure to be Romantic" |
RAN medals & clasps
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