EMPLOYMENT

Country Arts SA
Visual Arts Program Curator
November 2013 – January 2019

• curator/project coordinator, Tom Borgas Port Pirie Residency.
  
• curator/project coordinator, Limestone Coast Video Art Residency with artist Heath Franco.
  
• curator/project coordinator, Burra Regional Residencies and Ephemeral Art Trail, April – May 2016.
  
• curator, Handheld, Handheld II (co-curator), Island to Inland: contemporary art from Kangaroo Island (co-curator), Our Stories, Our Way: Our Mob 2015 on tour, Craft Anonymous (co-curator) as part of Country Arts SA Visual Arts Touring Program.
• oversee programming and coordination of touring exhibitions and external projects.
  
• maintain the Country Arts SA Collection, and co-ordinate loans of artworks to external clients.
  
• develop and execute artist residencies in regional centres.
  
• develop budgets and a six year visual arts program, ensure that projects are delivered within budgets and on time.
• work with Marketing team to develop, write and execute Marketing campaigns including social media.
  
• marketing for the Visual Arts Program.
  
• provide professional development opportunities for artists including regional and metro artists.
  
• SA representative with the National Exhibitions Touring Services.
  
• coordinate the Learning Connections education program including professional development.
  
• presentations for secondary and tertiary institutions.
  
• maintain mailing list and network of artists, curators and galleries.

Venice Biennale - Australian Pavilion
Volunteer team leader
May/June 2015

• Lead a team of three volunteers to maintain the Australian Pavilion during the 2015 Venice Biennale: lead tours, coordinate media, work with Australia Council for the Arts staff during Vernissage week to coordinate crowds, welcome VIPs and present tours, complete weekly reports and condition reporting, ensure artworks are not damaged and perform minor maintenance when needed.

Tandanya - National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Visual Arts Officer/Visual Arts Coordinator
April 2011 – June 2013

• Curator, Speaking Wave exhibition at Tandanya, in partnership with the South Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Storytellers’ and Writers’ Group.
  
• Curator, RECONCILIATION WEEK AT THE CROWNE PLAZA external exhibition.
  
• Curator, On What Grounds exhibition at the Town Hall and Tandanya work with the visual arts team, organisational staff, artists and suppliers to curate exhibitions across four exhibition spaces.
  
• Maintain, research and acquire works for the Tandanya Permanent Collection.
  
• Coordinate public programs and external exhibitions.
  
• Develop budgets, and report on finances and programming regularly .

AP Bond Art Dealer / Gallery 139
Gallery Assistant/Manager
2007 – 2010 

INDEPENDENT CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

2020

• Curator, The Unsolicited Proposals Unit, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT.
  
• Curator, Island to Outback, praxis ARTSPACE, SA.
  

2018

• Co-curator, Bringing the outside in, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide.
  
• Curator, A Vacant Space, Artbank, Sydney.
  
• Curator, I’m a Feminist but… re-presented Walkway Gallery, Bordertown.
  

2017

• Curator, I’m a Feminist but… presented as part of FRAN Fest 2017, praxis ARTSPACE, Adelaide.
  

2016

• Curator, The Sun Tone Harvester, Vicky Browne and Peter Blamey, Gardenspace, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
  

2014

• Curator, Performing Identity, odradekAEAF (series of four exhibitions).
  
• Curator, On Men, re-presented at Canberra Contemporary Art Space.
  

2013

• Curator, The Growing Exhibition, FELTspace, November/December 2013.
  
• Curator, On Men, FELTspace September 2013.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE, MEMBERSHIPS

2018

• Guildhouse LimberUP mentorship, with Professor Ted Snell. 
• Darling International Travel Grant: travel to England and Italy to research low and no-cost community engagement strategies employed by galleries working with communities outside art centres.

2017 - Ongoing

• Board Member, ACE Open, Adelaide.
  
• Chair, Art History and Curatorship Alumni Network, University of Adelaide.

2015 - Ongoing

• Member, Contemporary Collectors, Art Gallery of South Australia.

2014 - 2016

• Board Member, Australian Experimental Art Foundation Council SA representative, NETSAustralia committee.
  

2013 - 2016

• Founding member onesixteenth ARI

2014

• Presented workshop on curating as part of ARMATURE, Access2Arts.
  
• Participated in Artist/Curator speed dating with Access2Arts (curator).

2012 - 2013

• Volunteer Co-Director at FELTspace ARI: Responsibilities: Finance Officer, Coordinated FELTspace at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair (SCAF) 2013, represented FELTspace at ARI UP, ARI discussion panel (SCAF2013), developed and coordinator of the FELTspace Writers Program.
• Editor, The Curatorial Inquisitorial. 

2012

• Internship at Art Gallery of South Australia assisting Curator of Australian Art and the Project Curator on Heartland.
  

2011

• Compile interviews for Arts Breakfast, Radio Adelaide 101.5fm (volunteer).

2010

• Volunteer Presenter on Arts and About, Radio Adelaide 101.5fm.
  
• Volunteer Presenter on Culture Sub, Radio Adelaide 101.5fm.

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

2019 (upcoming)

• Community Engagement Strategies in the UK (working title), paper presented as part of the Regional Galleries Association of SA annual road trip.
  
• Studio Residents Exhibition (working title), praxis ARTSPACE exhibition essay.
  

2018

• Temporary Localised Art Project, catalogue essay, Tom Borgas residency in Port Pirie.
  
• The Burra Ephemeral Art Trail, paper presented at Museums and Galleries Australia summit, Melbourne, June 2018.
  
• From Little Things, Heidi Kenyon’s Guildhouse Collections Project exhibition.
  
• Director’s Cut, catalogue essay, FELTspace Director’s Cut exhibition.
  
• Umbra, catalogue essay, Steve Cybulka exhibition at Pompom, Sydney.
  

2017

• Meg Wilson: SQUASH!, exhibition review, Artlink.
  
• Tracking, catalogue essay, exhibition at Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier.
  
• Add-original: Driller Jet Armstrong, exhibition review, Verso.
  
• Shed Wizard, foreword for catalogue, James Dodd touring exhibition.
  
• Island to Inland: contemporary art from Kangaroo Island, catalogue texts, co-written with Celia Dottore.
  
• The Burra Ephemeral Art Trail, paper presented at the Regional Galleries Association of South Australian forum, June 2017.

2016

• Deviate, catalogue essay, Carly Snoswell and Rhiannon Jones, Format Gallery, Adelaide.

2015

• Back and Forth, catalogue essay, Meg Wilson and Kirsten Wechslberger, Nexus Multicultural Arts, Adelaide.
  
• Collecting Convergences, catalogue essay, Lilly Buttrose at Nexus Multicultural Arts, Adelaide.
  
• Handheld II, catalogue essay, co-written with Coby Edgar, Tarnanthi Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
  

2014

• Handheld, catalogue essay, Country Arts SA touring exhibition.
  
• Moments of intersection: James Tylor, Artlink Indigenous,vol. 34 issue 2, 2014.
  
• The Best Lady Anatomist, catalogue essay, Deborah Prior at FELTspace, Adelaide.
  
• Subjectify Me, FELTspace writers’ program.

2013

• The quietest river runs the deepest, catalogue essay, FELTnatural ephemeral art project.
  
• Exploring the place between light and dark: Peter Sharrock, MARMALADE, JamFactory. 
  
• On Men, catalogue essay, FELTspace, Adelaide September 2013. 
  
• Bloom Space review, Dear Eleanor Zine, June 2013. 
  
• Tough(er) Love: Art from Eyre Peninsula exhibition review, Artlink Australia, June 2013. 

ACHEIVEMENTS/AWARDS/GRANTS

2017
Independent Makers and Presenters Project Funding, I’m a feminist but... presented in Adelaide and Bordertown.

2014
Strategic Presentation Grant,for On Men to travel to Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Arts South Australia.

EDUCATION

2012 Completed
Masters in Curatorial and Museum Studies, Adelaide University

2010 Completed
Contemporary Art in New York, short course, Sothebys Institute of Art

2009 -10 Completed
Graduate Diploma in Art History, Adelaide University