Dr. Timothy Hubbard, President, Vic
Dr. Timothy Hubbard, a longstanding member of the DSWAA, is a heritage architect and planner. His retirement from Planning Panels Victoria and Working Heritage Inc will allow him to spend more time supporting the DSWAA.
As the new President, he is looking forward to strengthening links between the continuing craft of walling and the recognition, celebration and conservation of fabric surviving from its past.
Photo: Peter Casamento
Alone and in association Timothy has authored over 90 heritage studies, conservation management plans, research reports and academic papers. He completed four major studies about the Western District in which dry stone walls featured: the Southern Grampians Shire Heritage Study; Stage 2 of the Glenelg Shire Heritage Study; the City of Warrnambool Heritage Gap Study; and the Port Fairy Heritage Review. In 2006 he was awarded the inaugural ISSI Leslie M. Perrott Travelling Fellowship to study historic roads in Europe, the US, and the UK. It included a section on the dry stone walls and similar structures of Lancashire. More recently he wrote a report on the so-called ‘Chinese Wall’, a dry stone wall on Mount Sturgeon in Victoria’s Grampians/Gariwerd. His most intriguing research is into the standing stones of Tarrone immediately to the north of Port Fairy. ‘Discovered’ by him in 2012, he included the enigmatic monoliths in the DSWAA field trip he led in 2013. Their origin is still uncertain.
Jim Holdsworth, Vice-president, Vic
Founder of DSWAA and former President, and the new Vice-president, Jim is an architect and planner and Honorary Fellow of Planning Institute Australia. He led DSWAA from 2003 to 2022 and delivered on the objective of making the DSWAA a truly National body and a peak body for certification of wallers in conjunction with the DSWA UK.
He has organised countless field trips and other events and collaborated with local government in mapping Australia’s extensive dry stone walls.
Jane Boot, Treasurer, Tas
Jane is currently based in Hobart after having an initial career as a health professional and then owning a grazing and cropping property in western Victoria. During this time she developed a love of dry stone walls and hands-on experience in their restoration and care.
She has a long-standing passion for cultural heritage conservation and the environment and is involved with a variety of heritage and environmental groups.
Stuart Read, Secretary, NSW
Stuart Read is a landscape architect, bureaucrat and educator focused on the contribution heritage landscapes make to sustainable economies. He helps the NSW Heritage Council identify, list, assess and manage key places and has worked for the Australian Heritage Commission and Environment Australia’s world heritage & biodiversity units.
He has studied gardens in Australasia, Asia, the Middle East and Europe, including a 2005 Pratt Foundation overseas fellowship study tour of, then in 2010 led a tour of Spanish gardens. Stuart has been an expert member of ICOMOS-IFLA’s international scientific committee on cultural landscapes since 2008. He contributed to the National Trust of Australia (NSW) book Interwar Gardens – a guide… (2003), Gardens of History & Imagination: Growing New South Wales (2016). Stuart wrote Spanish lessons for Australian Gardens... (2005) and contributes to Garden Drum and Australian Garden History.
Emma Knowles, NSW
A former DSWAA President, and based in NSW with a background in Community Service Management, I’ve successfully convened many groups and have expertise in leadership, strategic planning, fundraising, public speaking, technology, advocacy, governance and risk. I’m also a DSWA Advanced level full-time professional dry stone waller and instructor, International Specialised Skills Institute Fellow and current Co-Convenor of the Women’s International Stone Alliance.
The DSWAA plays an extremely important role in developing the craft of dry stone walling in Australia and preserving its heritage and I’m confident our collaborative management team will be able to drive the association’s new strategic direction forward in a very positive manner.
It’s an exciting time to get involved with the DSWAA!
Wayne Fox, NSW
Wayne hails from the Riverina District and works out of Wagga Wagga. He has run his own landscaping company since 1987 with most jobs incorporating rock work. Wayne is also an experienced teacher having taught at both Wagga Wagga TAFE and Wagga Wagga Community College.
Wayne’s passion for dry stone walling was fostered by trips to England & Ireland and is DSWA (UK) Level II and Instructor certified. He has run Dry Stone Walling workshops in Wagga Wagga, Canberra & the Southern Highlands.
Anne Jaques, Vic
Anne has an enthusiastic interest in dry stone walls – especially the basalt walls of Victoria’s Western District. At a National Trust tour in the early 1980’s she met Tom Larkins, one of the last wallers in the Camperdown area. Living in Scotland in the 1980s she did a walling course with Robin Callander, waller at Balmoral.
In joining the committee, in 2024, Anne aims to increase membership and participation in the Association and relationships with all interested parties