Ross Wolfe

Ross Wolfe is an Adelaide-based administrator and writer. He has held influential roles in Australian arts administration, including as director of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council, from 1983, where he secured formal Italian and Australian government agreements for a permanent Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. An activist in his early career, he founded the seminal visual arts journal, Art Network magazine, in 1979, and was closely involved with establishment of Artspace, in Sydney. Wolfe was deputy director at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 1988 and, from 1992-2009, inaugural director of the philanthropic Samstag Program at the University of South Australia. He is a regular contributor of articles and reviews to Australian visual arts journals, and is the author and editor of The Samstag Legacy: An Artist's Bequest, a 2016 biography of Anne and Gordon Samstag.