11 Facts About Edmund Capon

Edmund Capon was director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1978 to 2011.

Edmund Capon was the chair of soccer club Sydney FC from 2006 to 2007.

Edmund Capon left London in 1978 to take up an appointment as Director and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, on the recommendation of the Premier of New South Wales, Neville Wran.

On 10 June 1994 Edmund Capon was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia "in recognition of service to the arts, particularly as Director of the Art Gallery of NSW".

Edmund Capon was appointed as a "Cavaliere" of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Edmund Capon was a member of the Advisory Council of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre, a member of the Council of Australian Art Museum Directors and an adjunct Professor of the University of New South Wales in Chinese studies.

Edmund Capon chose the winner of the Art Gallery Society of NSW prize in the annual Sculpture by the Sea awards.

Edmund Capon became "its public face: ebullient, unorthodox, ready with the pithy quote but erudite, a Mandarin-speaking scholar of Chinese art".

In September 2006 Edmund Capon replaced Walter Bugno as Chairman of Sydney Football Club, a position he held until August 2007, when he resigned owing to increasing responsibilities in his role as Director of the Art Gallery of NSW.

In March 2014 Edmund Capon was appointed chair of the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art based in Sydney, and in the same year became chair of the Australian Institute of Architects Foundation.

Edmund Capon had several skin cancers removed during his later years.