Jamie Lewis

Jamie Lewis joined the VicHealth Board in July 2022 and serves on the Workforce and Remuneration Committee and the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Advisory Committee.

Jamie is a Singaporean-Australian artist, curator, dramaturg and facilitator. She creates experimental and contemporary intercultural work, facilitating participatory experiences on identity, place, and time, through autobiographical stories, conversation and food. She creates and curates site-responsive performances that engage audiences as participants, and communities as artists. Jamie also has a long-term creative partnership – curiously exploring place and new vantage points with Dan Koop as Jamie, Dan & Co.

Committed to diversifying practice, Jamie seeks alternative models in her work and a re-imagining of leadership, governance, and structures.

Jamie’s practice also shapes her experience in audience development – focusing on strategies that are underpinned by mutuality, conversation and conviviality. She is a passionate artist and arts worker with a broad understanding of national narratives in the arts and cultural sector. Her relationship management and communication-centered approach with communities is reflected in her strong networks across the sector.

Jamie is currently CEO / Executive Director at Next Wave. She has previously been on the Board of MAV (Multicultural Arts Victoria), Program Manager at TNA (Theatre Network Australia), and was in the 2018 cohort of Australia Council for the Arts’ Future Leaders program.