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...
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
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...
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,...
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...
reminiSCENT (2018)
reminiSCENT | 25 July to 11 August 2018 | MAY SPACE, Sydney reminiSCENT surveys contemporary artists initiating multisensory experiences through olfactory encounters. Smelling is classified as a “bodily sense” in that along with touch and taste, in order to be ‘known’ or perceived, they need to be experienced with the body. Scent receptors are located...
Mouthfeel at Upper CVPA Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
15 February to 9 March 2018 | Upper CVPA GalleryUniversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth [Invited] Mouthfeel is currently screening at Upper CVPA Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the United States. This exhibition features the work of Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Hannah Raisin, Nina Ross, Martynka Wawrzyniak, and Elizabeth Willing. It first screened at Brenda May Gallery in June...
Miku Sato – River Water Miso Soup
Currently screening in Kitchen-Studio at MAY SPACE is Miku Sato’s film Soup: Japan and Taiwan Version. This is the second film in her Soup series that first began in 2011 in Seoul, South Korea. In this work, Sato cooks miso soup with water collected from the Ooka River in Yokohama where she lives. Sato is...
Kitchen-Studio (2017)
Kitchen-Studio | 10 October to 4 November 2017 | MAY SPACE, Sydney The artists in this exhibition take the space of the kitchen as the site of their performative artwork. The films echo the artwork of Feminist artists of the 1970s who utilised women’s work to challenge traditional ideas of domesticity. Utilising household gestures of...
Mouthfeel at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Larrakia/Darwin
9 April to 7 May 2016 | Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Larrakia/Darwin Mouthfeel is currently screening at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Larrakia/Darwin. Of the show NCCA writes: Mouthfeel is a collection of five films curated by Megan Fizell exploring the mouth through its navigation, ingestion and expulsion of edible and non-edible substances....