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Published outcomes - National Gallery of ...
Published outcomes - National Gallery of Australia: Digital Young Writers Mentorship
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Jo Higgins
ABC Arts: 'Air' at QAGOMA
ABC Arts: 'Air' at QAGOMA
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ABC Arts: Megan Cope is building a living, ...
ABC Arts: Megan Cope is building a living, breathing artwork on Minjerribah
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Exhibition essay: Topographies of painting - ...
Exhibition essay: Topographies of painting - Gregory Hodge, Sullivan + Strumpf
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ABC Arts: Richard Bell at documenta fifteen
ABC Arts: Richard Bell at documenta fifteen

The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery: new youth engagement project - 'Things I Want To Say'

I’m really excited to be working alongside curator Rachel Arndt to help develop and deliver a pilot youth engagement project for The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery, in Toogoolawah, Queensland.

Over the next year I’ll be supporting Rachel and several artists to run workshops for local young people, inspired by the ideas and artists involved in the May 2023 exhibition, Things I Want to Say, curated by Rachel and Imogen Dixon-Smith.

'Things I want to say' will bring together six emerging artists from across the country whose practices negotiate identity in contemporary Australia. Focusing on artists with a connection to Queensland, the exhibition will encourage conversation around navigating one’s sense of self within the pressures of broader society.

The first of these workshops was yesterday and we had such a fantastic group of local young people, who worked alongside artist Sid McMahon and myself to start teasing out some of these conversations and experiences for themselves.

I’m looking forward to everything that’s to come.

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ABC Arts: Megan Cope is building a living, breathing artwork on Minjerribah

Earlier this year, I travelled to Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) for several days with ABC Arts colleague producer Richard Mockler, to cover the next step in the latest project by acclaimed artist and Quandamooka woman Megan Cope.

Megan Cope planting oyster poles on Minjerribah in May 2022.

These three days, being on Country with Megan, talking with the other artists and subject matter experts collaborating with her to realise kinyingarra kuwinyamba, was a profoundly special experience - one I will never forget.

My article about Megan and her project, and the experience of being there, has just been published by ABC Arts here.

The story also ran on ABC TV’s Art Works this last week (available on iview) and is viewable via ABC Arts YouTube below.

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Exhibition essay: Topographies of painting - Gregory Hodge, Sullivan + Strumpf

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Several months ago, Paris-based, Australian painter Gregory Hodge commissioned me to write an essay responding to his latest body of work, which features in his new exhibition Figures, Lights and Landscapes, which has just opened at Sullivan + Strumpf in Sydney.

The invitation - and opportunity - to respond instinctively, creatively and historically to the many layers of meaning in his work was such a (terrifying) gift.

You can read my essay here.

And on Saturday 30 July I’ll be in conversation with Greg at the Sullivan + Strumpf for the opening, alongside artist Julia Gutman and curator Elyse Goldfinch.

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I acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal peoples of the Eora nation, the traditional owners of the unceded land on which I live and work and I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present.