Carrick Hill Trust announced today that Susan McCormack will now lead the Springfield site.

The Trust said that McCormack had extensive overseas experience with roles at the London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.

It said that as Senior Curator and Head of Contemporary Programs at the V&A, McCormack introduced a popular and critically acclaimed program of exhibitions, commissions and live events “covering all aspects of contemporary culture and connecting new audiences to the historic collections”.

When director of public engagement at the Ashmolean, she was responsible for exhibitions, public programs, learning, communications, interpretation, digital and design.

Born and raised in Adelaide, McCormack obtained a BA in Art History and Australian Studies from the Australian National University and is a graduate of the Getty Leadership Institute. While at the University of Oxford she was on the Said Business School Oxford Cultural Leaders
Faculty and a research collaborator with the Medical Sciences Division’s Dept of Psychiatry, to explore and understand the long-term benefits of creative health and wellbeing.

McCormack returned to South Australia and has spent three months as Carrick Hill’s head of development.

She replaces former director Tony Kanellos, who was appointed in May 2020 and left earlier this year.

Trust chairman Peter Kennedy said it was a “very exciting time for Carrick Hill”.

“Susan, through her extensive experience in developing new forms of programming, galleries and major exhibitions, will enable us to engage with a wide range of different audiences and develop local and national partnerships,” he said.

She will begin her new role at Carrick Hill on October 1.