National Endangered Skills and Trades Seminar
Endangered Heritage will be partnering with the National Museum of Australia again for the opening night of the National Endangered Skills and Trades Show 2022. Our Heritage Trade for Environmental Sustainability seminar will feature a panel of speakers discussing how traditional trades can be fostered and adapted to promote environmental sustainability.
Speakers
Victoria Pearce
Director & Senior Conservator at Endangered Heritage
Victoria has specialist skills in heritage and collection management, involving heritage values, conservation management and heritage interpretation. With a degree in Fine Art and Conservation Victoria has extensive experience in modern materials and contemporary art, particularly in art investment and management of collections.
Currently, Victoria is a member of the International Committee for Risk Preparedness with the International Committee of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), and a National Committee member for the Fabric Conservation Reference Group with ICOMOC.
Justin Hewitt
Director for Sustainable Communities at Prince's Trust Australia
With over 20 years of experience working within cultural heritage and the built environment across government, private, and social sectors, Justin is responsible for leading the Prince’s Trust’s built environment projects and education programs, focusing on sustainable traditional design and trades.
Justin is the Chapter Chair of INTBAU Australia (International Network of Traditional Building Architecture and Urbanism), spending ten years as a technical committee member of the National Trust Australia (NSW), and has served in the Australian Army Reserve.
Eduardo Patricio Peña Haller
Ambassador for the Embassy of Mexico in Australia
Born and raised in Mexico City, Ambassador Peña Haller joined the Mexican Foreign Service and the Diplomatic Academy of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1982, which gave him the opportunity to perform in different positions such as Consul in Houston Texas; Deputy Ambassador of Mexico in Germany, Uruguay, Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia; Head of the office for Legal Affairs in Belgium; and General Consul in Germany.
Mr Peña Haller was Deputy Legal Advisor at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Mexico before his posting to Australia as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Brett Leavy
Creative Director for Bilbie XR Labs
Brett Leavy is a descendant of the Kooma people of southwest Queensland. For over ten years, he has been the creative director of Bilbie XR Labs, a digital design lab and social enterprise working with First Nations communities to co-create virtual heritage landscapes. Through their work, Bilbie XR Labs aim to instil a sense of unity and belonging between mainstream and First Nations people.
Brett is also an adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology, Central Queensland University and has a working relationship with a number of other universities across Australia.
Matthew Murray
Founder & Head Saddle Maker at Riverina Saddlery
Matthew Murray grew up on a family cattle property in northern NSW where horses were a day-to-day way of life. He got into leather work because he wanted to make his best mate a pocket knife pouch when he was 10 years old.
He eventually opened Riverina Saddlery with the help of his wife. It may be time-consuming and often frustrating in this age of cheap imported goods to craft products by hand but Riverina Saddlery believe that customers deserve to be able to choose stylish, durable, Australian-made products and will strive to meet the growing need for Mathew Murray products Australia-wide.
Matthew will be running his own stall at the NESTS demonstrations. Read on about his work here.
