Sydney Science Festival 2025
PowerhouseAs lead program curator
Powerhouse presented a special edition of Sydney Science Festival in collaboration with International Astronautical Congress and the Australian Space Agency for IAC 2025 Space Week, coming to Sydney for the first time this September-October.
Astronauts, space architects, science fiction writers, space suit designers and visionaries came together to share industry insights and their predictions for the future of space. Talks, workshops and hands-on experiences were held across Sydney including the ICC Sydney, Parramatta, University of Technology Sydney, and Seymour Centre from 27 September – 4 October 2025.
Sydney Science Festival 2024
Powerhouse
As lead program curator
The Earthrise photograph was captured by astronaut William Anders during the 1968 Apollo 8 mission and depicts Earth as a fragile blue marble amid the vast blackness of space. This was the first colour photograph of Earth from space, and it forever shifted humanity’s perception of our planet. Half a century later Sydney Science Festival brought together leading creatives and scientists from around the world who are radically rethinking our understanding of the sky, Country and each other. Across Sydney from 10 - 17 August 2024.
Photofields 2024
PowerhouseAs lead program curator
In December 1874, Sydney Observatory astronomers made their first photograph of the Transit of Venus. This achievement was the result of interdisciplinary collaboration between astronomers, photographers and industry. 150 years on Photofields brings together photographers and scientists working across astronomy, photojournalism, art and film for a series of workshops, talks and screenings presented across Ace Hotel Sydney, Golden Age Cinema and Sydney Observatory from 6-7 December 2024.
Select independent curatorial projects below
Tin Sheds Gallery | 6 June - 19 July 2024
Garden at the End of Time explores the garden as a politically and culturally charged site. Within the walls of the gallery, the garden becomes construed as a place where meaning is not only reflected but also constantly cultivated, and negotiated—an ever-evolving ecosystem rather than an ossified microcosm. While the garden is often tied to its Edenic “beginning,” anthropologist Natasha Myers suggests how contemporary gardens increasingly respond to a sense of the end. In our time of climate catastrophe and late stage capitalism, she describes how gardens “throw us into the world, induce anxiety, and get us very interested in the urgency of life and death at the cusp of collapse on a damaged planet.” Propelled by this urgency, Garden at the End of Time asks what radical ideas stir and grow in the garden today?
Garden at the End of Time
Tin Sheds Gallery | 6 June - 19 July 2024
Garden at the End of Time explores the garden as a politically and culturally charged site. Within the walls of the gallery, the garden becomes construed as a place where meaning is not only reflected but also constantly cultivated, and negotiated—an ever-evolving ecosystem rather than an ossified microcosm. While the garden is often tied to its Edenic “beginning,” anthropologist Natasha Myers suggests how contemporary gardens increasingly respond to a sense of the end. In our time of climate catastrophe and late stage capitalism, she describes how gardens “throw us into the world, induce anxiety, and get us very interested in the urgency of life and death at the cusp of collapse on a damaged planet.” Propelled by this urgency, Garden at the End of Time asks what radical ideas stir and grow in the garden today?
Radical Slowness
The Lock Up | March - May 2022
In Radical Slowness, the never-ending cadence of our everyday gives way to a different pace: slow time. Through a series of artistic interventions, the exhibition pulls into focus a multitude of temporalities that usually exist out of sight. Within the historical walls of The Lock-Up, new visions appear: an ocean of digital water endlessly laps around the base of a stone, an alarm clock is caught in the half-seconds that follow midnight, and two galaxies slowly hurtle towards one another, destined to meet in four billion years. Here, time is reframed. It is rescued from a state of dormancy, and is revealed to be the very solvent of existence—an invisible substance which our bodies wade through every day.
Collective
Collective: Frenzy | Presented with Art Month at Firstdraft March 2021
Collective: Ghost | Presented with Outer Space ARI November 2020
Collective: Trace | Presented with PACT July 2020
Collective is a series of live, immersive digital experiences that invite audiences to engage with art and performance in surprising ways within and beyond the screen.
Bodies of Water
The Bearded Tit | December 2019 - January 2020
Bodies of Water focuses on the body as a site of perpetual transformation, unfixed, unpredictable and never at rest.
Becoming with
Tributary Projects | September 2019
This moment is an existential juncture — an extended journey along the edge of extinction into a time unrecognisable from what we know. How do we love with the end in sight?
After pARTY
Freda’s | March 2016 - July 2017
After pARTY was a monthly unofficial after party kicking on from the exhibition openings of galleries in the area. After pARTY celebrated contemporary artists and their practices featuring a different artist each month.
Down / Under
Down / Under | February - July 2017
Down / Under is a Sydney based project space established in 2017.
An-Architecture
Down / Under | February 2017
An-Architecture is a group show celebrating the launch of Down / Under. 'An-Architecture' brings together a group of emerging Sydney and Canberra based artists whose diverse practices explore the issues associated with cultural memory, constructed identity, and the act of archiving in an age of homogenous and boundless databanks.
Artbank Social Club
Artbank | November 2016
Artbank Social Club was an experimental marketplace for artist goods and actived by performance.
FreeFall Guest Curator
Oxford Art Factory | June - July 2016
FreeFall was an experimental performance series at the Oxford Art Factory glass cube - a glass cube that seperates the two stage spaces. Between June - July 2016 I curated a two-month-long performance series as the guest curator.
September Issues (AW16)
Squiggle Space | September 2016
September Issues (AW16) at Squiggle Space explores the poetic transformation of commodities into artworks and the flux of financial and cultural value in this process.
