Curators – Kaldor Public Art Projects

Talia Smith

reason8 — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 06:20:08 +0000

Talia Smith

Talia Smith is an artist and curator from Aotearoa and now based in Sydney, Australia. She is of Cook Island, Samoan and NZ European heritage. Her curatorial practice predominantly engages with photographic and moving image practices, specifically those that challenge the western lineage of art history, and looks to create platforms for diverse voices. She has curated exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand at institutions such as Artbank Sydney, Artspace Ideas Platform, Cement Fondu, The Lock-Up and Centre for Contemporary Photography. In 2021 she will curate an exhibition for the Ballarat Foto Biennale. Her writing has appeared in VAULT Magazine, Art Almanac, Art New Zealand, among others. She has completed residencies at Bundanon Trust and Basis Frankfurt and is completing her Masters of Fine Arts (Research) at UNSW. Talia currently works as the Gallery Curator at Granville Centre Art Gallery.

James Gatt

reason8 — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 06:14:08 +0000

James Gatt

James Gatt (b.1988) is an independent curator and writer living and working on Gadigal land. He has worked closely with contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand on projects and exhibitions since 2015, taking a conceptual approach to identify potentials for alternative models that relate to and shape contemporary art. Gatt’s research focuses predominantly on conceptual art practices and histories, social and political implications and strategies for art, and art’s facility for generating ideas and potentialities.

Gatt’s writing appears in local publications including Running Dog and VAULT Magazine. He has also contributed numerous interviews and essays to exhibition catalogues, and participated in public talks with local artists online and in galleries across Sydney. From 2015 to 2017, Gatt was founding director of Squiggle Space, a hybrid studio and project space dedicated to open-ended enquiry and critical discussion. Prior to this, Gatt worked as an educator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He is currently Associate Director at Sarah Cottier Gallery where he has curated exhibitions including Sculpture Salon (2018), Contemporary Recalcitrants (2019), and most recently Dialogue 2: On Hessian (2020).

Micheal Do

reason8 — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 03:03:59 +0000

Micheal Do

Micheal Do is a curator, programmer and writer working across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. His curatorial focus lies in developing thematic and immersive exhibitions that extrapolate research and artistic practices into contemporary contexts. He is Curator, Contemporary Art at the Sydney Opera House, Australia, and curator of Projects at Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand.

His exhibition Soft Core, exploring soft and inflatable sculptures developed for Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, recently concluded its tour of twelve regional and rural galleries throughout New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland from 2016–2019. Micheal has curated Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu (2017) and The Invisible Hand (2019) for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and among other exhibitions curated 5x5: The Artist and The Patron (2018), for Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest. He was the 2018 recipient of The Freedman Foundation’s Travelling Scholarship for Curators and the recipient of the Museums and Galleries NSW Artist and Curator Residency Grant in 2016. His writing appears in publications including 4A Papers, Art Collector Australia, Art Monthly Australasia, Art Review Asia, Artist Profile Magazine, VAULT Magazine and 10 Magazine, along with artists’ catalogues.