Clare Lakewood joins SPACED Board of Directors
We are pleased to announce that Clare Lakewood has been appointed as the newest member of SPACED’s Board of Directors.
Clare Lakewood (she/her) is a Senior Assistant State Solicitor at the State Solicitor’s Office of Western Australia. After a decade working as a climate change litigator for non-profits and individuals in the USA and across Australia, in 2024 she returned to working for the state government, handling a variety of civil litigation matters. From this background she brings a legal lens to decision-making, an emphasis on governance, an understanding of government bureaucracies and experience working within and with non-profits.
Since 2021 she has been a non-executive director of Climate Action Network Australia (CANA), a member-based network of more than 150 member organisations working together to protect people from climate change and to safeguard our natural environment. In that time CANA developed and implemented its first five-year strategic plan and has seen its revenue grow from under $1million in FY2021 to more than $6.8million in FY 2024.
Since 2023 she has chaired CANA’s Governance, Employment and Legal Committee, overseeing the development and introduction of the organisation’s first parental leave policy and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Improvement Policy.
She was awarded a Certificate in Foundations of Directorship from AICD in 2022, and alongside her law degree was awarded a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Fine Arts. Having been born in the Pilbara, with family in the South-West, and having served clients across the Pilbara and Kimberley, she is excited about the prospect of serving an organisation dedicated to providing arts opportunities in regional areas.
Clare joins fellow SPACED Board of Directors Virginia Miltrup (Chairperson), Guy Louden, Jacky Cheng, Gary Aitken, and Robert Frith. Read more about the story of SPACED and our board here.
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Explore our past programs
Know Thy Neighbour #3 (2021-23). Know Thy Neighbour #3 investigates notions of place, sites of interest, networks, and social relationships with partner communities.
Rural Utopias (2019-23). Rural Utopias is a program of residencies, exhibitions and professional development activities organised in partnership with 12 Western Australian rural and remote towns.
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