[4] At the age of 21, she and her then boyfriend, now husband, ceramicist Glenn Barkley, managed to find a space and get funding from a youth arts grant, Wollongong Council and BHP to create a new gallery, which they ran for four years.
[1] Havilah was Assistant Director of Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre from 1998 to 2004, and the inaugural Co-Director of Project Contemporary Artspace, Wollongong, New South Wales.[when?
[8] In November 2018, she announced her resignation from Carriageworks to take up the role of CEO of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS), starting in January 2019.
[8] She became the fourth head of MAAS in 5½ years, who reports to the Minister, manages 197 staff, and is responsible for the care of more than half a million artefacts of interest from a range of fields, including science, engineering, music and fashion.
At the time, it was intended that the collections of the Powerhouse Museum (part of MAAS) would be moved in its entirety from its inner-city suburb of Ultimo to a new building in Parramatta, far away from the city centre.