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Feeling images and sensing words

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

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

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, 10-4pmProgrammer: Sandra 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 Recreations with...
Aftertaste Install Photographs

Aftertaste Install Photographs

UNSW Library

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 cross-disciplinary projects.  CURATED EXHIBITIONS SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CATALOGUES & EXHIBITION TEXTS About UNSW Library Exhibitions Program As a point of intersection for students, researchers, and the broader community, UNSW Library...
Curating Multisensory and Food-Based Art

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

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

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

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,...
Seer as Seen: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of reversibility applied to food-art

Seer as Seen: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of reversibility applied to food-art

Paper presented at Higher Degree Research Conference (Panel 4), UNSW Art & Design, 4 September 2018. Abstract: This PhD research addresses modern and contemporary practices of food-art, analysing the rationales and aspirations that motivate artists, past and present, to incorporate edible materials into art. To do this, the project investigates philosophical debates regarding hierarchies of the senses,...
reminiSCENT Install Photographs

reminiSCENT Install Photographs

Scentual Encounters

Scentual Encounters

Scents are invisible, intangible, volatile, and transient. Our olfactory register is bombarded as we navigate daily life. Nearly all the products we use on our bodies (shampoo, lotion, make-up, toothpaste) and our homes (laundry detergent, dish soap, floor cleaner) are scented. We seek to control the aromas we find undesirable; we use antiperspirant to suppress...