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Fiona Gardiner,  FRAIA, Former Director, Heritage at Department of Environment and Resource Management
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Fiona Gardiner is an architect and former public servant. She spent over 30 years in the Queensland public service and recently retired after 13 years as the Director of Heritage in the Department of Environment and Science. She was responsible for the administration of the Queensland Heritage Act 1992 and strategic heritage projects which advanced the conservation of Queensland’s heritage places. Fiona Gardiner has been active and interested in gender equity issues since graduation and was the inaugural president (1983-1985) of Brisbane’s pioneering Woman in Architecture Association. As a senior public servant, she led a multi-disciplinary team of architects, archaeologists, historians, and planners of whom the majority were women. Fiona Gardiner actively mentored and supported both women and men in the workplace with practical measures including part-time work, additional leave during school holidays and flexible working hours. She has contributed to the identification and promotion of the hitherto hidden heritage of women in Queensland architecture through exhibitions, heritage listing and protection of their work.

Marion Wilson, Biscoe Wilson Architects

Marion is a senior architect and practice manager at Biscoe Wilson Architects and works primarily in the education, industrial and social housing sectors. Completing a Bachelor of Architecture part-time, Marion has been working in the field for over 40 years and is hands on in all aspects of architectural practice.

Don Watson LFRAIA 2021 Gold Medalist and Adjunct Professor at University of Queensland

Donald Watson is a graduate of the University of Queensland. As a student and following graduation he was employed by James Birrell, Hayes & Scott and Geoffrey Pie. Subsequently he worked for the National Trust, the Department of Housing & Construction and the Australia Council before being employed as a Lecturer at the University of Queensland where he also continued researching local architectural history and worked on exhibitions, public programs and collected architectural records for the Fryer Library. In 1989 he joined the Queensland Public Works Department working primarily on TAFE Colleges. On a year’s leave of absence, he lectured at QUT. Since retiring in 2012 he is an Adjunct Professor at UQ and resumed research initially on a State Library Fellowship. With Judith McKay he co-authored A Directory of Queensland Architects to 1940 (1984) and Queensland Architects of the Nineteenth Century (1994) which is being updated as Queensland Architects to 1975.

Russel Hall, LFRAIA 

Having graduated from the QIT in 1974, Russell Hall worked for the PNG Housing Commission for 4 years on low-cost housing and other housing projects. He had an office in Buderim for 6 years, mostly designing houses where the use of the traditional construction technique of single-skin timber with exposed studs was used on many projects. He has had an office in Brisbane since 1987 where houses and mixed-use buildings were designed, mostly in West End. Coincidentally, as well as working in architectural practice, Russell also participated in a company that designed and made street furniture and continues to this day to do various light metal fabrication work – mostly for buildings designed by architects around Australia. He has a violent dislike of buildings looking the same from the coldest climates to the tropics – as if one answer solves all; and has a firm belief that building designs should arise from the place they are built in and be appropriate to it.

Jeremy Salmon, FRAIA

Jeremy Salmon has been the principal of Jeremy Salmon Architects since 1993.
The practice focuses on new houses and renovations and has an impressive body of work predominately located in Southeast Queensland. Projects in Northern Queensland, NSW and Victoria have also been completed. Jeremy’s commitment to accessible sustainable solutions that can be enjoyed by the residents for many years has been recognised through architectural commendations and the Harry Marks Award for Sustainable Architecture. Our current motivation is maximum transformation from minimum change.

Alice Hampson LFRAIA, Past National President

Alice Hampson is a registered architect, sole practitioner, writer, architectural historian and installation artist. She graduated from the University of Queensland in Design Studies and Architecture with first class honours and was awarded the Board of Architects Prize and the RAIA Medallion.

Alice is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland, a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects, Chair of the National Heritage Committee, 2021 National AIA President and the State Awards Director for the Queensland Awards in 2017. 
She was appointed for 6 years to the Queensland Heritage Council and has served as an assessor for cultural heritage. She has been a contributing editor for Architecture Australia, and she was formerly the Brisbane and Queensland editor of Monument magazine. She has served on many juries, panels and advisory committees including on the Official Residents Advisory Committee for the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Independent Expert Panel for Arts Queensland. Alice is deputy chair of the Board of Architects Queensland (BOAQ), contributes as a BOAQ Examiner for APE 3 and as a member of the Accreditation Standing Panel.