Tracey Whiting, who sits on the boards of Solstice Media (the publisher of InDaily), the Australian National Museum and the Adelaide UNESCO City of Music, will take over the role from Judy Potter, who has been on the Festival board for eight years.

“I am thrilled to join the Adelaide Festival Board and look forward to working closely with the Minister, Board, Executive, staff, partners and all stakeholders, to continue to consolidate this Festival as our nation’s pre-eminent international arts festival,” said Whiting, who is also the former chair of the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Former Adelaide Festival artistic director Stephen Page, a renowned choreographer and Nunukal/Ngugi man of Qandamooka Peoples and Munaldjali man of the Yugambeh Nation in Southeast Queensland, has also been appointed to the seven-member board.

Page was artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre for 33 years where he developed that company’s celebrated canon of works. He was artistic director of the Adelaide Festival in 2004.

Minister for Arts Andrea Michaels congratulated Whiting on her appointment.

“I look forward to working with her to steer the nation’s premier international arts festival,” Michaels said.

“Her leadership and significant contributions to South Australia’s cultural landscape demonstrate her passion and dedication to the sector.”

Michaels also welcomed Page to the board and thanked Potter for her leadership of the Adelaide Festival Board and “her continuing contributions to the state’s arts and culture sectors”.

Potter said it had been an honour to lead the board.

“It has been an honour and a privilege to serve as chair alongside such a passionate board and management team and, over the years, to help the event go from strength to strength, firmly establishing itself as one of the world’s greatest festivals,” she said.

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