Kia ora, hello.
I’m a freelance art curator and writer based in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
With a broad range of experience working across the visual arts, I have a special interest in the connections people form with craft objects, and how this is translated through contemporary practice. It’s important to me that the exhibitions I curate and the texts I write offer ways for people to see their own experiences reflected back at them, and to ensure artists' voices are represented with care and integrity.
I have worked as a curator for over 15 years, most recently at The Dowse Art Museum (Te Awakairangi, Lower Hutt) and The Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua (Whanganui). I have have written for The Journal of Modern Craft (UK); Arnoldsche Publishers (DE) Art News-New Zealand; Art New Zealand and BackStory (AUT, Auckland), as well as galleries and museums scattered across Aotearoa. Alongside project managing the catalogues Peter Peryer: A Careful Eye (2014) and Seraphine Pick: White Noise (2015), I edited the major publication Guy Ngan (2019).
In 2015 I was the recipient of the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Curator to Munich award, which culminated in the exhibition The Language of Things: Meaning and Value in Contemporary Jewellery (2018). This international project included over 100 artists from Europe, the USA, Australia, Asia and Aotearoa.