Sally Dan-Cuthbert

Sally Dan-Cuthbert is an established Sydney art advisor. After more than 30 years working in fine art, Sally has shifted her focus to include functional art and contemporary design through the opening of Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert. The gallery now provides the platform to support important artists and designers through exhibitions and demonstrate her holistic approach to collecting. 

Sally’s career has included curating the 60th Anniversary Exhibition for The Blaxland Gallery, art specialist for Christie's Auctioneers in Australia and for the past 28 years as an independent fine art advisor. Her clients range from private individuals to large corporations and her practice is highly respected. Sally has always worked with fine artwork and design in collecting, placing particular importance on marrying the work with its environment. This often means working closely with artists, architects, designers and clients to ensure a perfect result. 

Over the years Sally has built up important relationships with galleries, curators, artists and collectors which has kept her at the top of her profession. She has sat on benefactor and advisory committees for not for profits and public galleries and she is a benefactor of public galleries and Biennales/Biennials.

Lea Ferris

Lea Ferris studied sculpture for five years with Tom Bass (1992-1997). Originally modelling in clay and casting in plaster, resins or bronze, she now works primarily in marble. She works in her studio in Pietrasanta, Italy, near Carrara for several months a year and then brings her work to her Bondi Beach studio.

Lea is a prize-winning sculptor represented by Defiance Gallery in Sydney, and has exhibited extensively at Defiance and also in group shows throughout Sydney. She has made large scale outdoor sculptures as well as miniatures. Her work is in collections across Australia, in Hong Kong and in The United States and she has completed commissions in Australia and in the US.

Photo by Stephen Oxenbury.

Barry Keldoulis

Barry Keldoulis, Director of Sydney Contemporary, has more than three decades experience in contemporary art. Since his return to Sydney after nearly fifteen years in New York and Europe, Barry Keldoulis has worked in the museum and commercial gallery worlds, and in 2003 opened his own gallery, GBK (Gallery Barry Keldoulis), to fill a gap in opportunity for young artists to exhibit between artist-run spaces and the major commercial galleries. Artists from his stable are represented in all the state galleries and the National Gallery of Australia, and now exhibit in museums and private galleries around the globe. Barry was also Chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).

Photo by Zan Wimberley.