Misheck Masamvu, Pink Gorillas in Hell are Gods, 2019, installation view, 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2020, oil on canvas, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Ken Leanfore
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Patrons of the Biennale of Sydney
Founding Governor
- Franco Belgiorno-Nettis AC CBE
Founding Patrons
- The Belgiorno-Nettis Family
- Transfield Holdings
Principal Patron
- The Neilson Foundation
Governors
- Andrew Cameron AM and Cathy Cameron
- Oranges & Sardines Foundation
- Roslyn and Tony Oxley
- Penelope Seidler AM
Benefaction and Events Committee
- Johanna Featherstone (Convenor)
- Emilya Colliver
- Patrick Johnson
- Timothy Klingender
- Clinton Ng
- Maurice Terzini
- Alyce Tran
- Rachel Verghis
- Chris Wirasinha
Ambassadors
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- David Hazlett
- The Medich Foundation
- Kate Mills
- Vicki Olsson
- John Wardle
Associates
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- Julian Knights AO
- Ginny and Leslie Green
- Robyn Martin-Weber
- Lizanne Knights
- Mark and Louise Nelson
Benefactors
- Alcaston Gallery
- Brook Andrew
- Claire Armstrong and John Sharpe
- Sigurdur Arngrimsson
- The Berg Family Foundation
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- Julia Booth
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- Natalia Ottolenghi Bradshaw
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- Geoff Charnock and Giovanni Munoz
- The Chartwell Trust
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- Rena Shein and David Hendler
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