About Jock
Jock McQueenie grew up in Scotland in a wee town called Milngavie at the end of the railway line. A few stops to the south, industrial, monochrome Glasgow, to the north the moors and hills - two very different worlds both of which he still loves dearly. From his favourite hilltop you can see both.
Jock is a self-taught photographer who honed his craft while shooting rock and roll bands in London in the 1980s. He snapped luminaries of that era including Frank Zappa, Iggy Pop, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, and many others.
After moving to Australia, he attended the University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts earning a First-Class Honours in Fine Art and the University of Tasmania Medal. As an artist Jock has exhibited nationally and internationally in prestigious events such as Unfamiliar Territory: the Adelaide Biennial (1992), and Fotofeis: The Scottish International Festival of Photography (1993), as well as solo exhibitions in Australia and Europe. As an arts educator he has taught in the university sector and in community organisations. His commitment to teaching and mentoring emerging creative professionals is ongoing.
From 1992-1999 Jock developed and ran a community arts program for the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council (now Unions Tasmania). The program’s hallmark was its integration of community engagement with industry: projects designed for mutual benefit with artists at their core. The model became known as the 3Cs – Community, Culture, Commerce. Before concepts such as Triple Bottom Line, Corporate Social Responsibility and the Creative Industries came into general circulation this work was seen as nationally significant and was awarded National Model status (1996) by the Australia Council for the Arts. His involvement in the early development of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s partly eponymous C3 West program, attracted significant research funding for the University of Western Sydney’s Centre for Cultural Research and its publication, The Art of Engagement: Culture, Collaboration, Innovation (UWA Press 2011).
Jock has worked for over 20 years as an independent consultant, teacher, writer, and speaker. His specialisation is in brokering and designing partnerships that put professionals from across the creative industries at the centre of cross sector projects (designers, filmmakers, writers, visual artists, community artists, historians, librarians, researchers). His groundbreaking work in linking community engagement to agricultural export supply chains received a National Good Design Award in 2022.
Throughout this long career Jock has served on the boards of many art spaces, funding panels, advisory committees. He currently serves as President of the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery. His Doctoral Thesis was based upon his 3C methodology, and he retains an honorary position as Industry Fellow in the Design Lab, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice at QUT. He is lead author of Community, Culture, Commerce: The Intermediary in Design and the Creative Industries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Partners / Clients
Boards + Committees
2026- President, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery
2023- Industry Fellow, QUT Design Lab,
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
2017 CICADA/Australian Women in Music Awards
2012-17 Queensland Writers Centre Management Committee
2010-12 Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Board Member
2009-12 Arts Queensland, Industry Expert (Creative Communities and Visual Art)
2008-15 Intercreate NZ, Trustee
2004-14 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, C3West Steering Committee
2004 Metro Business/Arts Incubator, Qld, Advisory Committee
2003 Fortitude Valley Chamber of Commerce, Creative Industries Group, Chair
2002 Brisbane International Animation Festival, Chair
2001 Youth Arts Queensland Management Committee
2001 Arterial Group, Brisbane, Board Member
2000 Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Board Member
1999 Arts Training Queensland, Board Member (ITAB)
1999 Arts and Industry Working Group, Arts Queensland
1998 Arts Tasmania Grants Assessment Panel
1995-98 Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Founding Chair
1998 Australian Labor Party (Tas) Arts Policy Committee
1998 Island Magazine, Board Member
1996-97 Zootango Theatre Company Board member
1996-98 National Association for the Visual Arts, Board Member
1995-97 ACTU/Australia Council, Devolved Grants Committee
Forums + Conference Presentations
2016 Liberact QUT Brisbane, QLD
2015 Civic Actions, MCA Sydney, NSW
2014 Making Sense, Seniors Week Launceston, TAS
2014 SCANZ NZ
2013 Regional Arts Queensland State Conference Brisbane, QLD
2011 Regional Arts Queensland State Conference Brisbane, QLD
2010 Taranaki Fortune NZ
2009 Art of Engagement Symposium, Panel Chair Sydney, NSW
2009 Institute of Creative Enterprise, Coventry University UK
2008 Society of Local Government Managers Conference NZ
2007 Regional Arts Development Fund Conference Cairns, QLD
2007 Aotearoa, New Zealand Assn of Arts Educators
2006 Museum Educators of New Zealand Conference Rotorua, NZ
2005 Museums Australia National Conference, keynote + workshop
2004 Economic Development Assn of NZ, Annual Conference
2003 Straight Out of Brisbane Brisbane, QLD
2003 3Cs Forum/Workshop series Te Papa Wellington, NZ
2002 New Visions, Experimenta Melbourne, VIC
2002 ACROC, James Cook University Cairns, QLD
2001 Parallax Perspective Brisbane, QLD
2001 Palimpsest Mildura, VIC
2001 Interface Solutions City of Mandurah, WA
2000 Leading Voices Hobart, TAS
1999 CREATE Australia, National Conference Melbourne, VIC
1998 Art and Community Conference Melbourne, VIC
1998 Regional Arts Conference Mt Gambier, SA
1997 DARE, Australia Council Brisbane, QLD