We are a small team supporting researchers in the field, and engaging with the public, project partners, and donors to support Rock Art Australia’s objectives. As a Not for Profit organisation, RAA relies on the generous support of donors to enable current and future programs. Fundraising is therefor at the core of what we do.
Fiona Menzies commenced as CEO of Rock Art Australia in January 2026.
Fiona is a senior leader across the arts & cultural, government and philanthropic sectors.
Her career has linked a deep interest in philanthropy and partnerships with policy making and program delivery, and a passion to help the arts and cultural sector build capacity and sustainability, for the benefit of communities across Australia.
Over the past two years, Fiona has undertaken a number of interim roles, bringing her experience in strategy and managing change to a number of organisations, including Melbourne Writers Festival, Breast Cancer Network Australia and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
From 2013 to 2023, Fiona was CEO of Creative Partnerships Australia, a Commonwealth Government agency that built the fundraising capacity of the Australian arts & cultural sector. This included the management of the Australian Cultural Fund, which increased tenfold during this period.
Prior to this, Fiona was Development Manager at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, where she was part of the inaugural team that established the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne in 2009.
Fiona’s interest in private giving to the arts began at the University of Melbourne, where she completed her undergraduate thesis on a private art collection donated to the State of South Australia. Fiona completed a Masters degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, also focussing on a donated collection – costume designs for a ground-breaking 1914 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Following this, Fiona took a sidestep into politics where she worked as Adviser then Chief of Staff to two Commonwealth Government Arts Ministers. During that time, Fiona worked across the arts and film portfolio but continued her interest in giving by playing a key role in the introduction of new measures in the taxation system to increase private sector support for the arts.
Fiona is a Trustee of the Gordon Darling Foundation and serves on the Board of TarraWarra Museum of Art. She previously served on the boards of the St Catherine’s School Foundation and the Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust.
Fiona has also been a member of the General Sir John Monash Foundation selection panel, a member of the Asia Pacific Advisory Council of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and a member of the Pro Bono News Editorial Advisory Board.
Dr Helen Green is a Research Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences at The University of Melbourne holding Rock Art Australia’s 5 year Fellowship in Rock Art Dating from The Ian Potter Foundation. Helen was employed as a Post Doctorate Researcher on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project with Rock Art Australia, focussed on dating the Aboriginal rock art of the Kimberley region (2014-2018) and was a Chief Investigator on the Rock Art Dating Project-2 (2018-2022).
Helen is also an Associate Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH). Helen’s research over the last five years has focused on analysing mineral accretions using a range of geochemical techniques to characterise and understand the formation processes occurring in relation to rock art pigments in north west Australia’s Kimberley region. These techniques include uranium-thorium dating, radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analysis along with analytical techniques such as X-ray diffraction analysis, scanning electron microscopy, electron microprobe analysis and others. Using this knowledge Helen is adapting both radiocarbon and uranium-series dating techniques to oxalate and phosphate bearing layered mineral accretions, with an aim of generating bracketing ages for different rock art styles comprising the established rock art sequence in the Kimberley region.
She is a RAA Director, and the Chair of RAA’s Science Advisory Council.
Anisha joined Rock Art Australia in March 2024, initially as a consultant, and then as Marketing and Communications Manager in August 2024.
She is responsible for building the brand awareness of Rock Art Australia, increasing partnerships and philanthropic support and delivering our program of national events.
Anisha has extensive experience in marketing, communications and event management, building innovative partnerships and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships. She has worked in regional and remote areas of Western Australia and the Northern Territory across the arts and environment sectors.
Prior to joining Rock Art Australia, she worked in organisations including Artback NT, Territory Natural Resource Management, ANKA – Arnhem, Northern and Kimberley Artists Aboriginal Corporation, and several Indigenous Art Centres, including Tangentyere Artists in Alice Springs, and Kayili Artists in the Gibson Desert, WA.
