Staff Members
Monika McInerney Artistic Director & Co-CEO
Artistic Director Monika McInerney has a long history of practice in community arts and cultural development, working in the arts industry and local government sectors across SA, NT, NSW and in the UK. She brings with her extensive experience in program development, management, policymaking, and strategic planning in addition to being an educator and maker in the arts across the breadth of the community. She is committed to raising the profile, value and role the arts have in community life. She is passionate about working with creatives to generate ambitious new works to reflect and feed the creative appetite for the arts in the community.
Jack Lloyd Executive Director & Co-CEO
Jack has worked at Belconnen Arts Centre since its opening in 2009. With skills in financial management, governance, technical and IT operations, performing arts practice and sector leadership, he is passionate about managing and working with the fantastic Belco Arts team to grow a vital and inclusive range of visual and performing arts activities for the Canberra community.
Jack has served as Deputy Chair of the ACT Minister’s Creative Council and on the Childers Group arts advocacy body. He is a founding member of theatre company Boho Interactive. In 2014, Jack completed his Master of Management (Arts & Cultural Management) from UniSA, and also holds a Bachelor of Arts (Digital Arts) from the ANU.
Caroline Wallace Gungahlin Programs Officer
For the past eight years, Caroline Wallace co-directed Signal Creative, an organisation delivering community arts programs across regional and remote Outback NSW. Signal Creative’s focus was empowering women of all ages by expanding their access to free creative opportunities and encounters. Through her work as Signal Creative, Caroline and co-director Emma Hoy successfully led over 25 community projects, engaging more than 1,000 women, including the production of the “Outback Outloud Podcast,” which features 27 episodes highlighting everyday stories from 13 regional and remote communities.
Caroline holds a Bachelor of Arts with Majors in Indigenous Studies and Community Development from the University of Canberra and studied at the ANU School of Music in her early 20’s. With a strong background in workshop facilitation, coaching, and education, she is passionate about community engagement through music and the arts. Caroline is excited to continue fostering creativity and connection as the Gungahlin Programs Officer.
Shan Crosbie Marketing Manager (On Leave)
Shan is an artist and animal advocate who is very proud to be working at the intersection of arts and community at Belco Arts. Since 2013, she has worked in arts marketing and administration at council art centres, galleries and publications. She holds a Master of Fine Art from RMIT, a Graduate Certificate of Marketing and Digital Communications from Monash University and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Art History from the Australian National University.
Christopher Carroll Marketing Manager (Acting)
Christopher has sharpened his communication skills through a travelled career of storytelling: through his theatre company, Bare Witness, as Marketing & Engagement Manager for Canberra Youth Theatre, and as a committed advocate for the arts with the ACT Minister’s Creative Council. He has had a creative relationship with Belco Arts as an artist for many years, making and staging theatre in the building, as well as a year as Artist in Residence in 2020. He’s eager to help the arts centre grow as an incubator for great art, and a hive of activity.
Anni Doyle Wawrzynczak Production & Venue Hire Manager
Anni has worked across the arts in Canberra since 2000, in the visual arts, theatre, music and dance, as a curator, stage manager, lecturer, facilitator, mentor and occasional spoken word and jazz performer. She has a PhD in Art History from the Australian National University and is the author of How Local Art made Australia’s National Capital, (ANU Press, 2020), a close and lively exploration of the development of arts and culture in Canberra from 1912 to the 2010s. Anni last spent extended time in Belconnen from 2004 to 2008 as curator of the Belconnen Community Gallery. She is thrilled to be back here serving Canberra’s arts community.
Abby French Gallery Reception & Retail Officer
Abby is a designer and artist who has worked across the publishing, arts and retail industries. For the last ten years she has been an active member of Canberra’s maker community and has a passion for promoting and supporting artists through sustainable retail practices. She is excited to be working with Canberra’s creative and arts community and is looking forward to welcoming you to Belco Arts. Abby holds a Bachelor of Graphic Design from the University of Western Sydney and an Advanced Diploma of Fine Art majoring in Printmaking from Meadowbank TAFE.
Paul Portelli Facility Manager
Paul is a dedicated servant of the arts and is delighted to help steward this iconic community arts centre as the Belco Arts Facility Manager. He has extensive experience in back-of-house theatre, art and sculptural installation. Paul is always excited to learn new skills and has assisted artists to bring their ideas to fruition through design, installation and management support.
Some of the many creative projects Paul has aided include Hannah Quinlivan’s Shroud 2020, Jacqui Malins’s Fridge Poetry at Poetic City Festival 2023 and The Hotz at Burning Seed 2017 – 2022. Paul also worked as a Theatre Mechanist from 2016 – 2024.
Board Members
Holly Johnson
B Laws (Honours)/B Art History & Curatorship (Chair)
Holly is a practicing lawyer whose experience spans both private practice and in-house. She holds formal qualifications from the Australian National University holding a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Art History & Curatorship and is currently an in-house lawyer at the National Gallery of Australia. Holly has also been an active member of the Canberra arts community, particularly as a resident artist with Canberra Youth Theatre, and as a performer at the Street Theatre.
Since 2020 Holly has sat on the Board, and in 2024 she was appointed as Chair. She is a passionate advocate for the arts and is dedicated to elevating and promoting the arts in Canberra as well as its broader impact the arts has on the cultural fabric of society.
Jane Fearn
B Political Science (Deputy Chair)
Jane is a Director within the Consulting practice at PwC with 20 years of experience supporting public and private sector organisations undergoing major transformation. An organisational change specialist, she has worked in both the UK and Australia supporting central/federal government as well as large global corporates with their change challenges.
Jane has consulted on board effectiveness to the public sector in the UK and Australia and is passionate about supporting people to reach their full potential in the workplace through embedding diversity and inclusion best practice. She was a key contributor to a recent research publication by PwC and the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) ‘Are We There Yet? Progress of the Gender Equality Strategy in the Australian Public Service.’
Jane grew up in Launceston, Tasmania and after graduating from the University of Hobart in 1992 with an honours degree in political science, she joined the Department of Defence, moving through various positions in the Australian Defence Headquarters before migrating to the UK in 2001 where she worked for the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit of the UK Cabinet Office, before joining PwC in London. She returned to Canberra in 2011 and has been a resident of Belconnen for the past seven years. Prior to joining the Board, she was a keen customer of the Arts Centre.
Mimi Musolino
B Accounting (Treasurer)
Mimi Musolino has 30 years experience in various public service organisations with a broad range of experience in Finance, Human Resources and Public Administration. This has equipped Mimi with the capabilities to focus strategically, to develop `big picture’ goals for workplaces, and to practically implement resolution based plans. Mimi recognises the importance for organisations to establish a culture of responsiveness to attain organisational goals and fulfil stakeholders’ needs.
Along with being numerically inclined and having a strong aptitude for analytical thinking, Mimi also is very personable. Mimi is dedicated to being a strong support to organisational staff and enjoys mentoring others to understand their role in an organisation, set and attain their goals and effectively contribute to organisational achievements. Mimi strongly appreciates that individuals’ professional success directly builds on the viability of an organisation.
Mimi is a member of the Australian Society of CPA and a practitioner in HBDI and Organisational Coaching. She is passionate about giving back to the community and supporting creative activities within the ACT society.
Brooke Anderson
Brooke is Head of Research, Sustainability & Social Impact at Yellow Edge having assumed the role in early 2023 following several years as Yellow Edge’s Principal Consultant. She is tasked with building Yellow Edge’s research capacity and capability having helped to launch Yellow Edge’s national State of Human Potential Survey in 2019.
As a B Consultant Brooke works with businesses to help them navigate the B Corp certification process and to meet higher standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. Prior to Yellow Edge, Brooke held positions with the Canberra Business Chamber, Austrade, and the ACT Government.
Damien Haas
B International Studies and Public Policy
Damien is former chair of Belconnen Community Council and former Chair of ACT Light Rail. He brings to the Board significant experience in the development, oversight and management of volunteer and community groups.
His professional background is in defence intelligence and the development and implementation of government policy. He is now an industrial relations mediator and a member of the Australian Institute of Mediators and Arbitrators and the Resolution Institute.
Jeremy Hall
Masters in Financial Planning
I truly believe that the Arts are an integral part of a happy and healthy community. It’s my strategy to utilise my private enterprise and financial planning experience developed over the last 20 years to understand Belco Arts’ goals and bring my unique expertise and connections to put the organisation in a healthier/stronger position and in turn, give back to our wonderful community.
Jen Webb
BA Hons (first class), in literature and cultural theory; PhD, in creative and cultural theory; Doctor of Creative Arts, in writing and embodiment; Master of Research Management and Commercialisation
Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice, and Dean of Graduate Research, at the University of Canberra. Recent books include Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts (Manchester UP, 2016); Gender and the Creative Labour Market (Palgrave 2022), and the poetry collections Moving Targets (Recent Work Press, 2018) and Flight Mode (with Shé Hawke; RWP, 2020).
She is co-editor of the literary journal Meniscus and the scholarly journal Axon: Creative Explorations. Her scholarly work focuses on the ethics of representation, and on the field of creative practice; her poetry focuses on material poetics and questions of seeing and being.
Adrian Breen
B Ec/LLB, MBA
Adrian Breen is a government and workplace relations lawyer with a strong focus on work health and safety by day, Adrian is a passionate supporter and consumer of the arts. He has been actively involved in theatre and live music across Canberra and Tasmania, contributing both on and off stage. Adrian enjoys all forms of artistic expression and believes in the power of the arts to enrich communities. He is enthusiastic about working collaboratively to broaden access to and participation in the arts, and looks forward to fostering deeper community engagement through creative and cultural initiatives.
Cathy Zhang
Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) Bachelor of Tourism Management
Cathy Zhang is an experienced arts professional with a background across the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. She brings broad expertise in stakeholder engagement, philanthropy, and commercial operations, with a proven track record in delivering cultural initiatives. She has worked in senior capacities, contributing to major projects that support artistic practice and strengthen community connection. Cathy also serves on the Steering Committee for the Australian Brain Cancer Foundation. With qualifications in visual arts, design, and tourism management, she offers a strategic, cross-sector perspective and a deep commitment to cultivating a flourishing creative and cultural community.