The WAMA Board are pleased to announce that Pippa Mott has accepted the role as WAMA’s first CEO, officially starting mid September.
Pippa joins WAMA after successfully leading the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf throughout its second and third years of operation.
Pippa is an experienced curator and cultural leader with a career spanning over a decade.
Her expertise has been cultivated through roles at leading institutions such as the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), Mona Foma, Artist Profile, Art + Australia, and the Australian Museum, complemented by academic training at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Curatorial Practice Program.
Pippa’s exhibitions of note include Kirsty Kross: National Treasure (forthcoming), Robert Eadie: Strange Light (Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, 2024), Sammy Hawker: [holding] space (Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, 2024), the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, 2024/2023), Jemila MacEwan: Human Meteorite (Essex Art Centre, Boston, 2022), Trehus (Oslo Architecture Triennale, 2022), Doors of Perception (Visions Gallery, Auckland, 2021), ‘Til it’s gone (Mona Foma, Launceston, 2021), Lucy Bleach: Rueremus (Mona Foma, Hobart, 2021), The Centre (Mona Foma, Launceston, 2020), Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive at Mona (2019), and Toby Ziegler: Your Shadow Rising (Mona, 2018). She served on the selection panel for the Australian Antarctic Division Antarctic Arts Fellowship from 2017-2020, and participated as a judge in the 2023 BigCi Environmental Awards.
Pippa is excited about leading WAMA’s environmental art and wildlife precinct
With a demonstrated commitment to environmental art and the cultivation of holistic cultural experiences, Pippa is excited about championing a unique destination for art and nature in the Grampians (Gariwerd).
In Pippa’s words, “Gariwerd is a place of spectacular beauty, a locus of biodiversity, and a site of profound Cultural significance. I enter this new chapter with a sense of utter privilege and look forward to delivering a world-class destination for art and the environment, in dialogue with this remarkable setting.”
Chair of the WAMA Foundation Board, Greg Lewin AM says, “Pippa’s outstanding leadership qualities, energy and expertise will be invaluable in guiding WAMA through its growth and development.”
The construction works for the WAMA Gallery building and surrounds are well progressed, with the launch exhibition currently being curated by the WAMA team, with opening planned for April 202.5
