Trudi Curran
Chairperson of the Collie Gallery Group Inc.
Diploma of Teaching (Secondary), Bachelor of Education, Level 3 Classroom Teacher
Trudi has been involved in art education, both at secondary and tertiary institutions for a number of decades. She has been involved with the Collie Art Gallery since its initial inception and planning and is delighted to see the benefits that the art and wider community have gained since its development. The rapid rise of the reputation of the Collie Art Gallery to become a premier rural arts hub within the Australian arts scene has bought a great sense of pride for Trudi.
Emma Headley – Deputy-chair & Finance Officer
Emma was born in Collie and lived there most of her life. She has been a member and a volunteer of the Art Gallery since 2014. Throughout her work, she has held administrative and accounting roles.
Emma has a strong interest in the Arts and has completed a Diploma in Visual Arts. Her current involvement within the visual arts field is as a hobbyist artist, having participated in various joint exhibitions throughout the south west.
Debra Mangini – Treasurer
Debra spent most of her childhood in Margaret River before studying at Murdoch University then working in the eastern states, later retiring to Collie. Although she had a science and maths background she was always interested in crafts. Joining a number of community groups introduced her to a wide range of artists/crafts people in Collie, and this expanded to include becoming a member of the Collie Gallery Group.
Trevor Walkington
Trevor has had an interest in art since high school. He attended after school classes and took Art as an extra subject in Year 12. Trevor studied at UWA and became a secondary science teacher travelling around the state in his career. He eventually became a Head of Department firstly in Collie in the 1990s and travelled to Victoria to become a Head of Boarding in Hamilton. Trevor is now retired and moved back to Collie to be with family.
He had a long hiatus from art whilst teaching and being a father to two but has always remained passionate about visual arts, particularly portraiture, and felt it was time to give back to the art community in Collie.
Jade McCormick
Leanne Prince – Secretary
Leanne was born and raised in Collie before moving to Perth to attend university, completing a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education.
Arts and crafts have always been an integral part of her life. After travelling and working in the southwest she returned to her hometown and currently attends art classes to continue to develop her creative style. Leanne enjoys experimenting with different mediums and is influenced by the local natural environment.
Payam Parishanzadeh
Gallery Coordinator
With a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature, Payam worked for the International Department of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art 2000-2012. With hands-on experience in organising exhibitions, Payam has been working for the Collie Art Gallery since 2015.
Garry Johnson
Garry Johnson, a traveller of time, space and the cosmos, on planet earth for a few more years.
Sabrina Mitchell
Local artist, Sabrina Mitchell studied art at Curtin University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Craft). 
During this time, she had sculptural works exhibited at the World Expo in Brisbane and had her work published in ‘Craft Australia’.
She then embarked on a primary school teaching career, later becoming an art specialist.
She worked to further develop her artistic skills on a personal level when she joined the Collie SWIT campus, graduating with a Certificate III and IV in Art and Design.
Sabrina likes working with mixed media, printmaking, jewellery, sculpture and her passion lies in working with textiles. She takes the time to create intricately detailed artwork and enjoys recycling and repurposing materials.
Angela Smith
Angela has lived in Collie for 26 years. She came to teach at Wilson Park Primary School and stayed. The last five years of her teaching career, she was the Visual Arts and Music Specialist. As an early retiree she has been using her time to do volunteer work with the elderly at ‘Belong at Home’ and the Collie Art Gallery. Angela has also been able to get back into her own art and has enjoyed her experiences with local artists, who have helped to improve her artistic skills.
Dianne Clark
Dianne is an established artist having held several solo and joint exhibitions. She specialises in watercolour and pastel but also paints in acrylic using palette knives and draws inspiration from her favourite painter, Paul Gauguin.
Dianne is a long-standing member of the Watercolour Society of WA and commenced painting in the Pilbara in the 1980s.
She lived in Indonesia for 3 years and also on a canal barge in France for a similar duration. Both places have given great subjects for her art and she often paints from her own experiences in these countries.
Dianne moved to Collie in 2015 and is enjoying interaction with other artists at the Collie Art Gallery where she is a volunteer.