About
Founded by former Australia Council CEO Tony Grybowski, TGA has built a reputation as a trusted advisor across the arts and cultural landscape. We are proudly values-led and sector-focused – amplifying the voices and ambitions of cultural organisations, peak bodies, governments, and creative leaders.
Tony Grybowski
Tony Grybowski is one of Australia’s leading arts administrators with a 30-year career in and with the arts community and governments.
Tony is based in Melbourne and for much of his career has worked at a national level. His experience has included executive leadership roles in several Australian arts organisations and significant arts policy work, governance, planning, strategic reviews within arts organisations and across state and federal government bodies.
In 2019, Tony established a Consulting Practice with the objective to form project teams of leading national and international experts to address issues and reviews of the Australian Arts and Cultural sector. Since Establishing Tony Grybowski & Associates the company has worked for the South Australian, Tasmanian, Victorian and Queensland Governments providing Reviews, critical strategic advice and Executive Leadership. Clients across the arts sector have included Bangarra Dance Theatre, The Tasmanian Symphony, West Australian Ballet, Back to Back Theatre and the Wheeler Centre for Books and ideas. Tony’s principal consulting partner and advisor is Graeme Gherashe.
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Tony was Chief Executive Officer of the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body from May 2013 to October 2018. Tony led the Council through its most significant period of strategic and organisational reform, delivering its inaugural overarching strategy A Culturally Ambitions Nation, launched in 2014, new arts funding model, organisational structure, international strategic arts development, research program and integrated support for First Nations people. Tony has extensive government policy and strategy experience and worked on the review and evaluation of numerous policies and frameworks including Playing Australia, the Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy, the Major Performing Arts Framework, the National Cultural Policy and various reviews of the small to medium sector.
We don’t just consult – we collaborate. TGA brings together bespoke teams of expert practitioners, matched to each client’s needs. Our engagements are grounded in evidence, co-design, and a deep understanding of the diverse communities we serve.
The Associates
Penny Miles - Senior Associate
Penny is an arts professional with close to 30 years’ experience in senior roles in the performing arts, executive leadership, reform and transformational projects, strategic planning, and design of organisation culture, governance and structures.
Penny career spans industry roles and working for all tiers of government including the Australia Council for the Arts and a variety of NSW Government departments managing the major performing arts portfolio, sport infrastructure programs, gambling regulation and health services. This diverse subject matter expertise means Penny brings to all projects a great breadth of best practice to support the arts to continually improve.
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Penny is recognised as an expert in audience development and regional engagement through her extensive practical experience in producing, touring, and risk management acquired through leading roles managing the Federal Government's Playing Australia fund, Executive Producer for Circa, committee member for the National Performing Arts Alliance, Executive Coordinator for NSW & ACT venue association, and heading up Arts on Tour for over a decade.
Penny’s strategic skills and expertise have been sought after to lead the development of foundational work such as the inaugural Arts and Cultural Plan for the City of Parramatta, the first precinct program framework for the City of Gold Coast and the Audience Experience Program for regional galleries and performing arts centres.
Penny was recently the Chair of City of Melbourne’s Night Time Economy (aka Night-time Mayor) focused on the development of strategic solutions through arts and culture activations. Penny is currently the part-time Executive at the Betty Amsden Foundation.Description text goes here
Peter Morton - Lead Policy & Writing Associate
Peter is an accomplished arts administrator, writer and researcher and has had a rich and diverse career across some of this country’s most significant organisations. This has included a decade as an award winning producer and presenter for ABC Radio National, and subsequently a term as Chief of Staff to the ABC Managing Director David Hill, a high point in the organisation’s history and marked by its strength of commitment to Australian content and an expansion of its digital and international services.
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Peter later served as Chief of Staff to the Lord Mayor of Sydney for a term coinciding with city’s hosting of the 2000 Olympic Games. The diverse challenges of planning and delivering the city’s ‘host city’ responsibilities were a highlight of this chapter in his career.
More recently Peter has held senior roles at two of NSW’s most important cultural institutions - the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and Sydney Living Museums. Each of the roles have required high level liaison and management across Board and Executive, co-ordination with Ministerial offices and sophisticated analytical and communication skills. This has included leadership of the strategic planning processes for both museums, representing each at government-initiated inquiries and reviews, and reviewing and enhancing governance practice.
Across his diverse career, Peter has maintained a commitment to supporting organisations that provide public benefit, and that enrich and support a more civil society.
Jasmin Tulk - Lead Designer
With over 20 years of experience in graphic design, coupled with an academic background in Fine Arts, Jasmin’s clients include leading Australian arts and not-for-profit organisations including The Australian Ballet and the Australian Museum.
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