About Us

Staff Profiles

Jane Hooper

Senior Operations Coordinator
Contact: jhooper@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Jane completed a BA in Humanities at Griffith University (Qld), majoring in film and television production and theory. She has worked across many arts related areas - one of her favourites being a grass roots multi-media project by women in the Asia Pacific region, presented at the UN Forum on Women in Beiijing 1995.

Since moving to Sydney in 2000, Jane has filled a number of administrative roles, including course coordination for the NSW Writers' Centre, managing the office for a large format travelling photographic exhibition (M.I.L.K.), then finally an 18 month stint in the competitive world of entertainment licensing. Jane is now very happy to be back in the warm embrace of community arts.

Phillip Relf

B.A (Communications)
Cultural Programs Officer (Outreach)
Contact: prelf@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Phillip Relf graduated from the then North Sydney Technical College’s Film & Teleview Production program in 1977. After working with independent film companies and finally the ABC documentary unit, including 4 Corners and A Big Country, he left to travel overseas.

In 1992 he graduated from Charles Sturt University with a BA Communications (Theatre/Media) specialising in community event celebrations, large scale lantern and street imagery. He has worked both here and overseas on major festivals and with theatre companies such as Welfare State International (UK) and Bread & Puppet (USA). Phillip has worked at Pine Street Creative Arts Centre since 1995.

Bess O’Malley

B.A M.A (Visual Arts)
Cultural Programs Officer (Childrens)
Contact: bomalley@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Bess aims to provide fun artistic experiences for children, with a focus on creative expression, skills development and caring for nature. She is passionate about the local community and through her art programs she hopes to inspire children to view their local environment in a new and sensitive way.

Bess has had twelve years experience designing and implementing community art programs for children with organisations such as South Sydney Council, St Vincent De Paul Society, Mount Annan Botanic Gardens, The Australian Museum, Observatory Hill Environment Education Centre, Leichhardt Council, North Sydney Council, Macarthur Waste Board, Stormwater Trust and more.

Bess is also a Master of Art graduate, majoring in painting. She is an experiences landscape and a portrait painter and has taken part over
30 exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

Christie Torrington

Cultural Programs Officer (Youth)
Contact: ctorrington@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Christie Torrington trained in painting & Drawing at the College of Fine Arts Paddington, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours class 1) in 2002.   Christie has exhibited widely over the last 10 years, her first solo show Out of the Dark was held in 2004 at Francis Baker Smith Gallery, and in 2005, another solo production, Nature is no Refuge.

Christie has taught Painting and drawing classes with adults, teens and children for 5 years. Winner of the 2004 Hunters Hill Art Prize Viewers Choice Award, 2002 UNSW Students Association Arts Prize (Painting & Drawing), 2003 William Fletcher Trust Grant.

Alexandra Sideris

Acting Arts Administration Officer
Contact: asideris@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

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