Curatorial projects
Over the past twenty years I have curated numerous exhibitions for a range of organisations, including Edith Cowan University, the City of Joondalup, WA, and Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW.
BIG SCOPE: PAINTING AND PLACE
In 2013 I curated an exhibition of painting for Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery titled Big Scope: painting and place. For this exhibition I was able to draw on loans from individual artists, collectors, public collections and commercial galleries, such as Utopia Art Sydney, May Space and Arc One, Melbourne.
image: exhibition catalogue cover, Big Scope: Painting and Place
The exhibition provided viewers with a range of experiences, from the expansive and panoramic paintings of Gordon Rintoul, to the intimate and all encompassing works of Paul Uhlmann, whose series of larger than life paintings were installed in a purpose built viewing space designed to embrace the viewer. Other artists included in the exhibition were Robert Boynes, Peter Daverington, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, John R Walker and Catherine Woo.
image, left to right: Peter Daverington and Robert Boynes, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, 2013.
image: installation view, painting and works on paper by John R. Walker, Big Scope: Painting and Place, 2013
YOUR COLLECTION: Charles Collin
During my time as Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery’s Exhibitions and Collections Officer, I curated numerous exhibitions showcasing aspects of the gallery’s permanent collection. Your Collection: Charles Collin featured the photography of Charles Collin, an employee of BHP from the late 1940’s through to his retirement in the late 1960s. Collin worked for the company as a photographer and safety officer and documented all aspects of dock life through his signature pictorialist style.
image: installation view, YOUR COLLECTION: Charles Collin, Lake Macquarie City Ary Gallery, 2014.
Your Collection: Charles Collin “has struck a special chord with Newcastle's Macedonian community”
Jason Gordon, 2014, Migrants at the heart of BHP exhibition, Newcastle Herald
image: Charles Collin’s photograph, Dawn at BHP 1950s, collection of Museum of Art and Culture, Lake Macquarie.
YOUR COLLECTION: Off the Wall
Your Collection: Off the Wall was an exhibition I curated in 2016 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery sculpture park. In addition to works from the gallery’s permanent collection, including newly acquired works by Ian Burns and Janet Laurence, I also drew on loans from artists Jamie North, Braddon Snape and John Turier.
image: works by Braddon Snape, installation view Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, 2016.