M&G NSW IMAGinE Awards 2024
UNSW Library’s engagement program for Care is a relationship was recognised with a Highly Commended Award at Museums & Galleries of NSW IMAGinE Awards 2024. For the 2023 exhibition, Care is a relationship, UNSW Library worked in collaboration with Black Dog Institute and SPHERE to host a series of 3 workshops facilitated by artist-in-residence, Michele Elliot, that explored ideas of...
ArlisANZ 2024 Conference
From Science to Art: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions at UNSW Library ArlisANZ (Arts Libraries Society / Australia and New Zealand) 2024 Conference BEING SEEN, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney; 28 November 2024 Abstract: UNSW Library’s Exhibitions Program establishes the Library as a cultural centre point on campus where students, researchers, and the broader community intersect....
Feeling images and sensing words
Writing outcome from the Firstdraft Writers Program (2022-23).View on the Firstdraft website: https://firstdraft.org.au/writers-program-2024/feeling-images-and-sensing-words. This project experiments with synaesthetic writing to test the potential of language to express the perceptual qualities present in multisensory art encounters.(1) Following the increased reliance on web-based media to present contemporary art during the COVID-19 pandemic, the project responds to the...
Firstdraft Writers Program 2022-23
From 14 December 2022 to 20 January 2023, I undertook a residency at Firstdraft as part of their Writers Program. Project Proposal: This project begins by posing the question, what would sensory closed captioning look like, sound like, or feel like? By responding to the growing theoretical and curatorial interest in sensory art, this project...
A Seat at the Table: Aftertaste Community Day
Exhibition: Aftertaste, 15 April to 12 August 2023Location: Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Cabrogal/FairfieldPublic Programs: A Seat at the Table: Aftertaste Community DayDate: 15 July 2023, 10-4pmFCMG Programs Officer: San May After Adelaide Hendle: Anzac biscuit mou(u)rning tea with Lindsay Kelley An artist talk and Anzac biscuit tasting with Lindsay Kelley (10:30 am – 11:30 am) Takeaway...
UNSW Library
In 2022, I joined UNSW Library as Curator, Special Collections and Exhibitions where I collaborate on research-based exhibitions, public art commissions, publications, object-based learning workshops, and interdisciplinary projects. CURATED EXHIBITIONS SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CATALOGUES & EXHIBITION TEXTS PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS & RECORDED MEDIA PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS MEDIA & CITATIONS Crosby, Alexandra. “Ecological art can bring us closer...
Curating Multisensory and Food-Based Art
On 21 September 2022, I presented the talk “Curating Multisensory and Food-Based Art” at the Museum & Galleries of NSW’s event, SPARK: Museums. Ideas. Connections., at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This talk surveys curatorial projects staging multisensory encounters where audiences see, hear, feel, smell, and sometimes taste the artworks on show. It...
Thinking about Bread and Art
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about bread. With panic buying, stay-at-home orders and general fear and anxiety over the current state of affairs due to the COVID pandemic, I can see I’m not alone in thinking about bread. There are dedicated hashtags on Instagram (see #quarantinebaking, #stressbaking, and #bakecorona) alongside a slew of think...
Affect and food art
Paper presented at Higher Degree Research Conference (Panel 5: Cultures; Performances; Mediations), UNSW Art & Design, 24 October 2019. Abstract: This art theory PhD examines instances of food art of the 20th century and its proliferation in 21st-century experience-based and immersive art practices. I propose that by employing edible materials, artists activate multisensory experiences that challenge the primacy of optical...
Brenda May Gallery/MAY SPACE
I held the role of Gallery Manager from 2010 – 2019 at MAY SPACE, Sydney (formerly known as Brenda May Gallery 2001-2016) where I worked on 258 exhibitions (146 solo, 55 group, 57 video art) and 6 art fair presentations (Sydney Contemporary 2015/17/18; Art Stage Singapore 2013/14/15). An overview of major curatorial projects, co-curated exhibitions,...
Lecture: Backing Yourself As An Artist
Invited Lecturer, Backing Yourself As An Artist: Professional Development Short Course, convened by Suzanne Davey & Dr. Therese Kenyon, Eramboo Artist Environment; 9 March 2019 Synopsis: As visual artists and craftspeople we occasionally need a boost to deepen our resilience and ability to sustain our art/craft practice. Eramboo is conducting this cultural development course during...