Max Dingle OAM - volunteer work, publications, media
Volunteer positions / 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 Formal agreement to bequest M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection of 250 paintings and sculpture to Shoalhaven
Regional Gallery signed with Lord Mayor / City Council. Includes provision for City Arts Centre’s use of the
collection from 2008.
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 exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre
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 : A Documentary installation, Shoalhaven City Arts
2012 Curator Less is More: more or less exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre
2012 to present 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 Collection at 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 sequence see http://dedomenici.com/redux
2014 "Mental Health Art Award" Shoalhaven City Arts - Judge
2014 Curator "Samuel Elyard" exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre - opening October 2014 + guided tours
2014 Curator " Elizabeth Cummings - Survey" exhibition Shoalhaven City Arts Centre - opening December 2014
2014 Sponsored fund raising house and garden tour + lunch for 20 for 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 & Gallery - 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 Organising Committee (communications / sponsorship)
2018 Jambaroo exhibition Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - Panel discussion with 13 artists - Chair & Adjudicator
2018 Jambaroo exhibition SRG - Host artists & partners, other guests for dinner (32 people) at Sussex home
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 dance for the last 10 minutes.
Future Commitments
2020 SeeChange Art Festival - Curator The Haven Art exhibition
2021 Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - Curator (Jan King ) Sculpture exhibition East Gallery
2022 Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - Curator Grace Burzese Survey 1995 - 2022 Main Gallery and Foyer Gallery
2023 - 24 Shoalhaven Regional Gallery - Curator "Art + Death" (working title) Main Gallery + + +
Friends & Volunteers - Papers / Publications:
- World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM) 9th Congress October 1996 “Marriage may have many pains, but celibacy has no
pleasure”
- Partnerships between Friends and Professionals. Publication : “Museums to Come” ISBN 968.7802.00.6
- Australian Federation of Friends of Museums (AFFM) - Membership in the 90s Seminar August 1997 “From the Front Line”
- Museums Australia (WA) & AFFM Seminar - Cultural Connections August 1998
“Partnerships between Friends and Professionals”
- “Guidebook - How to Start, Manage, Market & Maintain a Museum Support Group”, Editor (and contributor ) Max Dingle
ISBN 0.646.37344.7 May 1999.
- Museum National Vol 7 No 4 May 1999 ISSN 1038.1694. “Friends and the Museum Community”
- Museums Australia 2001 National Conference – 22 – 26 April 2001
* Paper No 1 “Building Capital “ * Paper No 2 “Dealing With Change”
- World Federation of Friends of Museums General Assembly – June 2001 Paper: ‘Friends and Members in Australia’
- International Council of Museums 19th Congress and General Assembly July 2001
Conference paper: “ The Responsibility of Society in Running Museums”
- Friends Review February 2002 “ How can museum management instigate change and include civil society in developing
the processes”
- Museums Australia Friends and Volunteers workshop March 2002 Chair
- World Federation of Friends XIth Congress October 2002
Paper: “Workshops and education programs offered to preschool, primary, secondary and adult members of the community”.
- Museum National magazine Vol 11 No 3 Feb 2003, ISSN 1038.1694 article “Report on XIth WFFM Congress”
- Paper Setting up a Friends Group seminar Sydney Jewish Museum August 2003
- Article Fundraising for Friends ‘Friends Review’ August 2003
- Article Friends of Museums in Australia British Friends (BFFM) Newsletter Summer 2004
- Which are more important, visitors or collections seminar Museum of Sydney March 2004
- Paper Does your museum know you exist MSAA conference Sept 2004
- Article Brief guide to strategic planning ‘Friends Review’ April 2005
- Paper Great Ideas on Small Budgets WFFM Congress, Oct 2005
- Article Great Ideas for Small Budgets ‘Friends Review’ April 2006
- Paper Friends of Museums in Australia WFFM General Assembly April 2006
- Vera Hatton Gallery opening address, Lady Denman Museum, 2008
- Personal Journeys : 40 years of Australian Women’s Abstract Art 2009 ISBN 978-0-646-50832-0
- No Boundaries exhibition opening address, Lady Denman Museum, 9 June 2009
- Black is the Colour…. 2010 ISBN 978-0-646-52904-2
- Chaos exhibition opening address, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Mar 2010
- Jervis Bay Environment exhibition opening address, Lady Denman Museum, 25 Sep 2010
- Art, Life & Everything Sussex DayView luncheon address 21 Nov 2011
- Less is More: More or Less 2012 ISBN 978-0-646-57149-2
- Margaret Dredge – Retrospective 1960 to 2001 ISBN 978-0-646-57900-9
- Purple Skin magazine Issue 1 State of the Art - article Jan / Feb 2013 www.harbourpublishing.com.au
- Artist makes her mark - South Coast Register 27 March 2013 article on Margaret Dredge Retrospective
- Purple Skin magazine Issue 2 State of the Art -article Mar / Apr 2013 www.harbourpublishing.com.au
- Purple Skin magazine Issue 3 State of the Art -article May/ Jun 2013 www.harbourpublishing.com.au
- Purple Skin magazine Issue 4 State of the Art -article Sept - Nov 2013 www.harbourpublishing.com.au
- Anna Herold Pola Stage 3 exhibition - opening address September 2013
- Dialogue No 13 Winter 2014 - Shoalhaven City Council arts magazine article Cultural Tourism in Shoalhaven
- Purple Skin magazine Issue 5 State of the Art -article Dec - Feb 2014 www.harbourpublishing.com.au
- Purple Skin magazine Issue 6 State of the Art -article Mar - May 2014 www.harbourpublishing.com.au
- Elisabeth Cummings - Landscapes and Interiors 2015 ISBN 978-0-646-93063-3
- Gallipoli exhibition by Alison Chiam opening address Jervis Bay Museum March 2016
- Rhythmic Encounters by Sue Smalkowski opening address Hazelhurst Gallery March 2016
- WAAM! its women's abstract art man! 2016 ISBN 9780646962542
- "Art food and the Sublime" The Aristologist No 7 ISSN 2253-5225 (7)
- Vicki Varvaressos Painting in the same language 2018 Max Dingle & Joanna Mendelssohn. ISBN 978-0-6483014-2-4
- " Art - Fetish Fantasy Food : Stories & Sculpture" paper 22nd Symposium Australian Gastronomy Nov 2018
- " Art - Fetish Fantasy Food : Stories & Collage" paper 12th Symposium New Zealand Gastronomy Dec 2018
- Guy Warren River Rainforest Rock 2019 ISBN 978-0-6483014-3-1 Art photography Max Dingle
- Opening speech & Award winners announcement See Change Festival, The Haven Art Award 2019
- "O fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden that goes to seed" paper 13th NZ Symposium of Gastronomy Hamilton NZ 2020
- Paper "Ünweed Garden.." published : https://compost.sydney/2020/02/09/tis-and-unweeded-garden-that-goes-to-seed/ 2020
Recognition
2008 Life Member, Jervis Bay & Basin Arts
2019 Shoalhaven City Council Australia Day Awards - Nominee and Highly Commended for outstanding contribution to arts and culture
2020 Order of Australia Medal (OAM) Australia Day Honours
Media / Bibliography
1976 Sun Herald 1976 article on exhibition Lorel’s Place Oxford St Paddington
1982 Pyrmont & Ultimo: A History pg 43 St Albans Church purchased as studio ISBN090936849X
1987 Bookshops of Sydney Australian Museum Shop manager ISBN0958949425
1996 Australian Financial Review, Feb 1996 interview “Crowds grow as museums shake off their dusty image”
1996 Business Review Weekly 6 May 1996 Marketing interview “How to avoid a sales pitch that’s a museum piece”
1998 Open Training & Education Network January 1998, The Marketing Series: Research in Action SBS Television 2 April - 15 May 1998
1998 Friends Review May 1998, profile / interview “Profile of a President”
2008 Nowra Mail June Bequest to Shoalhaven
2009 Arts Jervis Bay & Basin June 2009 “No Boundaries – Opening by Max Dingle”
2010 South Coast Register 25 May 2010 “New Wing opens at Lady Denman…”
2010 South Coast Style, winter 2010 “Art = Life” by Colleen Duncan ISSN 1449-8359
2010 Australian Art Review, Issue 24 “Black is the Colour…” by Peter Anderson ISSN 1447-8587
2010 Defiance News Dec 2010 “ Winner of Catalyst Award”
2011 Phaedra: Explorations in the Abstract 2011 ISBN 978-0-646-54520-2
2011 South Coast Register 3 Aug 2011 “Sticking it out” by Jeff Stephenson
2011 Sussex Inletter 7 Dec 2011 “Sussex Day View News”
2011 Exposedartz 2011 catalogue
2012 Cossack Art Award catalogue
2012 Sussex Inletter 30 May 2012
2013 South Coast Register M Dredge 17 Apr
2013 South Coast Register M Dredge 19 Apr
2013 We are so Arty Margaret Dredge Apr
2013 Art Guide Australia May-June 2013 Margaret Dredge Retrospective - curator quoted
2013 Community radio interview – Margaret Dredge Retrospective
2013 Art Monthly July 2013 "Not the usual Book Club story- Margaret Dredge" by Dr J Peers
2013 PurpleSkin issue 4 Sept 2013 "Max on Show - art & the influence of Fredrico Garcia Lorca"
2014 Purpleskin issue 6 - March 2014 "Max on Show - Studio time"
2014 National Library of Australia, oral history "Australian Generations project - Max Dingle" by Matthew Higgins
2014 South Coast Register Dec Elisabeth Cummings exhibition
2014 South Coast Register Dec - Samuel Elyard exhibition
2016 CREATED in shoalhaven 2 /6 - Interview Max Dingle - booklet
2016 www.createdin.com.au/creative-minds - extended Interview Max Dingle
2016 Community radio interview – Fetish: sculpture & collage
2016 South Coast Register Nov WAAM exhibition
2016 South Coast Register Dec - WAAM exhibition
2016 Community Radio Dec - Out of Earth & Flame exhibition
2016 What's on NSW website - WAAM Jervis Bay Museum & Gallery
2016 Art.Base e-newsletter - WAAM Jervis Bay Museum & Gallery
2016 Illawarra Mercury Dec WAAM exhibition Jervis Bay Museum and Gallery
2016 Art.Base e-newsletter Out of Earth and Flame : ceramics in the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
2016 "Art food and the Sublime" The Aristologist No 7 ISSN 2253-5225 (7)
2017 Community Radio Jan - WAAM exhibition & curator talk
2018 "Local - Riccarton House Dinner" The Aristologist No 9 ISSN 2253-5225 (9)
2018 RNZ Eyewitness - mention Max Dingle artist displays food related surreal art at NZ Gastronomy Symposium
2018 https://compost.sydney - artwork by Max Dingle
2019 http://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/ photography and symposium logo design credits.
2019 South Coast Register Jan 25 "The Shoalhaven's Australia Day Award Winners" Maxwell Dingle contribution to the arts
2019 Bay & Basin Arts Newsletter Jan 25 "The Shoalhaven's Australia Day Award Winners" Maxwell Dingle contribution to the arts
2019 Art Almanac June Ed The Haven Art Award - Curator MGD quoted re diversity and quality of entries
2020 South Coast Register Jan 25 - Max Dingle Australia Day Honours OAM
2020 Jervis Bay & Basin Arts Newsletter - Life Member is awarded Governor General's Order of Australia Award
2020 Sussex Inletter 26 Feb 2020 - Max Dingle OAM
