Members of The Colin McCahon Trust
Peter Carr
Chair, Project Sponsor and Steering Group Member
Peter Tutehanga Carr (Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto) is Chair of the Colin McCahon Trust and has been a Trustee since 2019. He is one of the two of artist Colin McCahon’s grandchildren currently serving as the McCahon family’s representatives on the Trust.
Peter has been working in the public policy realm for nearly thirty years, including more than twenty years as a Public Sector manager and leader in the social and infrastructure sectors. Peter is also an accomplished director with a proven track record of driving complex policy reforms, managing funding and revenue systems, leading regulatory stewardship programmes, and building organisational capability.
Peter holds a Master of Public Administration (with Distinction) from The Australia and New Zealand School of Government and Victoria University of Wellington, as well as a Master of Arts in Political Studies (with First Class Honours) from The University of Auckland.
His professional experience and academic background are assets to the Colin McCahon Trust, ensuring effective governance and strategic leadership in preserving and promoting Colin McCahon's artistic heritage.
Jude Chambers
Trustee
An accomplished international arts leader with over 20 years of experience in the arts and cultural sector, Jude has deep expertise in the design and delivery of major international projects such as New Zealand's official participation at the Venice Biennale, as well as commissioning, funding and capability-building programmes. She has supported artists and art organisations to create international strategies, established a portfolio of public and private partnerships and held key leadership positions such as Manager of International, Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, from 2011-2022. Jude is on the Board of Artspace Aotearoa and Contemporary HUM.
In 2024, Jude was appointed Executive Director of McCahon House, and oversees McCahon House Museum, the internationally-regarded Parehuia Artist Residency and education programme, and two new international initiatives.
Charlotte Davy
Trustee and Project Owner
Charlotte Davy is currently Ringatohu Toi | Director Art and City Gallery Wellington. She has a long-standing interest in artists’ legacy management, and the changing role that museums can take in supporting artists to manage their collections and archives into the future. She has been a Trustee for the Colin McCahon Trust since 2021.
Charlotte’s expertise spans creative direction and facilitation, arts strategy, and exhibition programming and development. She has experience leading large scale gallery redevelopments, complex digital projects and all manner of exhibition and acquisition projects. As Head of Art at Te Papa, she led the high-profile redevelopment of New Zealand’s national art gallery Toi Art in 2018, and was previously Head of Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She holds a degree in Art History from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University, and an Advanced Diploma in Design from Massey University.
Peter Corley
Trustee and Project Steering Group
Peter is a finance practitioner with 30 years’ experience across the Banking, Hospitality, Transport and Arts sectors. Peter is the current CFO at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and has been employed in Finance roles at Te Papa for 9 years. Peter holds a BA in Economics and a BBS in Accountancy and is a Chartered Accountant.
Dale Bailey
Trustee and Project Steering Group
Dale Bailey is the Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive of the Springboard Trust, an education not for profit. Dale has a lifelong career in education, history and culture. He has been the President of Manawatu Museum Society, an honorary life member NZ Historic Places, founding chair of the Te Manawa Museums Trust, and Deputy Chair of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. He is currently chairs the board of SPELD NZ, the Auckland Medical Museum Trust and is the Chair of the John Kinder House Society in Parnell. He is a past chair and member of the Colin McCahon Trust.
In his professional career Dale has focused on education. He started out as a teacher of Social Studies and Geography at Awatapu College in Palmerston North, worked for the Education Review Office (ERO) in Auckland, Careers New Zealand, was Deputy Chief Review Officer (Northern) for ERO and Director of Collections Research and Learning at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Dale has a Master of Arts (hons) in Geography, a Master of Public Management and a Teachers College diploma. He was awarded a Nuffield Commonwealth Fellowship to the Commonwealth Institute in London in 1994.
Dr Sarah Farrar
Trustee
Dr Sarah Farrar is head of curatorial and learning at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She has been the Gallery’s representative on the Colin McCahon Trust since 2019 and was a member of the Trust’s Research Committee from 2013-2018. Farrar is a curator and art writer whose doctoral research focused on contemporary art, curatorial activism and the complexities of cross-cultural exchange. Recent curatorial projects include Taimoana | Coastlines: Art in Aotearoa, with Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua, Dr Jane Davidson-Ladd and Nathan Pōhio, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the retrospective exhibition, Robin White: Te Whanaketanga |Something Is Happening Here, a nationally touring exhibition project with Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Her publication, Robin White: Something Is Happening Here, co-edited with Jill Trevelyan and Dr Nina Tonga, was a finalist in the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Finn McCahon-Jones
Trustee
Finn McCahon-Jones has worked in the GLAM sector for 20 years. Currently Finn holds the position of Senior Collection Manager, Documentary Heritage at Aukland Museum and has held the role of Curator/ Director at Te Toi Uku Crown Lynn & Clayworks Museum in Auckland; prior to this he worked at the Auckland Museum as Associate Curator Applied Art & Design, and an Exhibition Curator (specialising in Auckland Stories). In 2018 Finn returned to study art history at Auckland University, gaining First Class Honours – on his dissertation examining exhibition histories and how Colin McCahon’s practice as an artist influenced his job working as a curator. Finn trained in the visual arts, attending Auckland University of Technology, majoring in sculpture.
In 2013 Finn was awarded the prestigious Clark Collection / Creative New Zealand Scholarship to attend The Attingham Summer School in England. In 2019, Finn and Caroline McBride co-curated an exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery on McCahon’s practice as an artist during the period he worked as a curator at the Auckland Art Gallery. In 2018, Finn and Martin Edmond re-wrote the McCahon House visitor narrative. And in 2020 was the Auckland Library Heritage Trust scholar.
Finn currently serves on the boards of the J.T. Mackelvie Trust and the Colin McCahon Trust.
Philippa Robinson
Honorary Secretary
Philippa Robinson is the Research Library and Archives Manager, E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She has been the Honorary Secretary of the Colin McCahon Trust since 2019. Philippa is a specialist art librarian who has worked primarily with documentary heritage collections in art galleries and museums, including community project work in Nairobi, Kenya and Arawa, Central Bougainville. BA in Art History and Film and Media Studies from Auckland University, MLIS from Victoria University and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies from Massey University.