Gallery Directors
David Forrest CBE:
Director of Gallery East since 1992. David was a Board member
and Chairman of the Artists Foundation of WA to May 2002. He
was a long serving Secretary and Chairman of The Association
of Western Australian Commercial Art Galleries, and is a
panellist for the Western Australian Department of Culture and
the Arts grant assessment.
David has acquired a first hand knowledge of a wide range of
the work of artists and craft practitioners currently working
in Western Australia.
David is an authorised valuer for the Commonwealth
Government's 'Cultural Gifts Program' for Japanese woodblock
prints and books 1700-1939.
Jánis Nedéla:
Director of Gallery East since 1993. Jánis is a working artist
who exhibited with Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, until its
closure in June 2013..
Jánis served on the curatorial staff of the Art Gallery of WA
for 14 years to 1993 during which time he gained a
comprehensive knowledge of the Art Gallery of Western
Australia's collection as well as considerable skill in the
mounting and display of art works.
He lectured in Art Management and Art History at the Central
Metropolitan College of TAFE (Mt Lawley College and WA School
of Art, Design and Media) for 7 seven years to 1996, and was
Exhibition Programmes Manager for CRAFTWEST, Centre for
Contemporary Craft, Perth 1996-1998, giving him an unrivalled
knowledge of Western Australia's leading contemporary craft
practitioners.
Jánis is an authorised valuer for the Commonwealth
Government's 'Cultural Gifts Program' for Australian drawings,
paintings, prints and sculptures after 1950, Australian studio
glass and ceramics after 1950, British prints after 1940 and
Japanese woodblock prints after 1940.
Janis was a Board member of Artsource, the Western Australian's leading representative visual arts organisation, 2012 -14.
