Artists and curators

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Hannah Mathews, curator

Hannah was born in 1977 and graduated with a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne in 2001. She has worked as a curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2005-07); an assistant curator at the Monash University Museum of Art (2005) and the Ian Potter Museum of Art (2002); and as a project manager at the Biennale of Sydney (2000-02), Next Wave Festival (2003-04) and The South Project (2003-04).

Hannah has curated a number of institutional and independent exhibitions, including Rhys Lee: Capitol Hill Rooting King, RMIT Gallery (2003), The birds and the bees, Project Space (2003), Porte publique, Spacement (2004); Drawn out: a drawing project, PICA (2005); Winners are Grinners, Meat Market (2006); I took a deep breath, PICA (2007); and Old skool (never lose that feeling), PICA (2007).

She completed a curatorial internship with Creative Time, New York (2004), an Asialink residency with Arts Initiative Tokyo (2007), and participated in the Australia Council's curatorial development program at the Venice Biennale (2007).

In early 2008 Hannah moved to Melbourne to undertake freelance curatorial work and joined the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as an Associate Curator. Her curatorial projects in 2008 included Show Me Your World, Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin; Lyndal Jones: from Darwin with tears, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; and Primavera, Museum of Contemporary, Sydney.

Ben Riding, artist and curator

Ben completed a Bachelor of Arts (Art) at Curtin University of Technology and since then has been involved in the production and coordination of a number of art projects. Most notably, Ben was co-curator and coordinator of Hotel6151, a major international multi-arts project involving more than fifty artist, theorists, performers, fashion designers, musicians and filmmakers from around the world. Hotel6151 gained international success and was widely written about throughout Australia, Spain, France and England.

Since Hotel6151, Ben continues to develop his project LAUNCH ART, which aims to provide active working environments for emerging and established artists of all disciplines. LAUNCH ART enables the opportunity for new ways of approaching, dealing with and executing ideas, and creates a forum for these approaches to be discussed and critiqued. Ben’s artistic practice continues in parallel to these projects. Now residing in Sydney, he has a number of solo and group projects lined up for 2009.