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The people Who make GG happen.
 Rebecca McLean and Andy Dinan at the launch of Gallery Girl
|  David filming Andy and Joanne Mott |
Andy Dinan aka Gallery Girl
Dinan had a previous life as a well regarded public relations specialist.
She began her career in 1980 with one of Melbourne’s top pr consultancy’s Professional Public Relations, which later merged to Rowland Neilson Mc Carthy, and then merged to The Rowland Company for which Dinan worked for some ten years. She then transferred to the company’s Los Angeles office, where she worked for a year. On return in 1991, she struck out and formed her own consultancy called P.R Works which she built up over the next ten years before selling to Clemenger BBDO , retiring then to have children and study art.
Over the next five years, Dinan was kept busy in the community serving on boards including the Salvation Army, the Malthouse and TLC for Kids as well as being a loving mother to her three children. Importantly, she discovered she was a bad sculptor. She filled her days volunteering for the National Gallery of Victoria and starting the Artbeat club for the young NGV members. She also created Off your Back - a winter coat collection. It was during this time that she started to research and develop the concept of MARS gallery.
In an old derelict dairy, down the wrong end of Bay Street Port Melbourne, Dinan began radical renovations on the building that would become her dream gallery.
Now a steady and consistent visual arts venue that hosts monthly exhibitions, Dinan has built the gallery up , continually streamlining and improving it and continues to speak at art events, take part in Art Fairs and run an extensive intern program for young aspiring arts management workers.
Dinan started a country retreat in NSW at the home of artist Anne Judell for young artists to study with a master and funds all of the arts activities privately. She is a sponsor of many charity events and arts events and remains committed to fighting arts elitism and using visual arts to educate as well as excite as well as being an arts human activist. Most days when she is not fighting for the arts, Dinan can be found hanging out with her three children, studying sculpture, in her vegie patch, cooking or writing a novel she never quite finishes. She continues to go out too many nights to art openings around town with the team from Gallery Girl.
 Gallery Girl | Dinan started a country retreat in NSW at the home of artist Anne Judell for young artists to study with a master and funds all of the arts activities privately. She is a sponsor of many charity events and arts events and remains committed to fighting arts elitism and using visual arts to educate as well as excite as well as being an arts human activist. Most days when she is not fighting for the arts, Dinan can be found hanging out with her three children, studying sculpture, in her vegie patch, cooking or writing a novel she never quite finishes. She continues to go out too many nights to art openings around town with the team from Gallery Girl. Dinan admits the next
ten years may be her toughest as she continues to balance all her loves
and maintain the right balance in life. Her list of things to do, books
to read and things to fight for seems to get bigger daily. |
Rebecca McLean Producer/Director
Rebecca has
worked in the Film and Television Industry for over 25 years directing and
producing short films, documentaries and magazine television both as a director
and producer. She is also developing a feature film about the notorious Aussie
youth sub culture of the 70’s Sharpies ! Rebecca had her first break in the early 80’s with Peter Nicholson’s ABC political satire Rubbery Figures. After a stint working with puppets she went into live action and earned a place at the Swinburne Film and Television School back in the early 90’s – from that point on she was hooked and has crossed the medium divides ever since. Her passion and interest in film and television has taken her around the country and the globe, recently as far as Greece shooting the Making Of Wog Boy 2 – The Kings of Mykonos for Emile Sherman (Academy Award Winner) and Nick Giannopoulos and before that to Central Australia working with remote Aboriginal media organisations including PY Media, CAAMA and Warlpiri Media. |  Rebecca McLean |
She has worked on some of the ABC's most successful factual programs such as George Negus Tonight and The Einstein factor as well as Missing Persons Unit for 9 and Bread TV for 10. Apart from Producing and Directing Gallery Girl - She is currently in post production on the Making Of Fred Schepisi’s new film The Eye of the Storm starring Judy Davis and Geoffrey Rush and Charlotte Rampling and teaching documentary film making at Open Channel. Gallery Girl is the first Television Series that she is Directing and Producing along with co Producer Andy Dinan.
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