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ZARA STANHOPE

Zara Stanhope is Deputy Director, Senior Curator at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. Stanhope has curated numerous exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand, most recently; We know who we are at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, and Imagine … the creativity shaping our culture at the newly reopened Heide Museum. Other projects include; THREE COLOURS, Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson; This was the future: Sculpture from the 1950s, 60s, 70s and today, slow release: recent photography from New Zealand and Good Vibrations: the legacy of Op art amongst others.

Stanhope was inaugural Director of the Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1999-2002) and Assistant Director, Monash University Gallery (1993-1999) responsible for developing both curatorial programs and gallery management. Her interests encompass fostering creative exchange in the Asia Pacific region and implementing strategic annual programs specific to institutional missions that present and interpret local art in historic, thematic or regional contexts.

Stanhope is a regular contributor to art magazines and exhibition catalogues and has developed a number of touring exhibitions which include: THREE COLOURS, Gordon Bennett and Peter Robinson (Australia and New Zealand 2004-6), slow release (Australia and New Zealand 2002-2003), Botanica (New Zealand 2001-2002), The Persistence of Pop (Victoria 1999-2000) and Close Quarters, Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand (Australia and New Zealand 1998-2000).

 

DANAE MOSSMAN

Danae Mossman is Director of The Physics Room contemporary art space in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she is responsible for the management and strategic direction of the organisation, and the development of a curatorial programme comprising national and international contemporary art exhibitions, publications, off-site projects and performances. Recent New Zealand based curatorial projects include Breathing Space , The Physics Room, Christchurch; House Work , Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin; The Ouse Project , temporary exhibition space, Wellington; and Single Currency , an exhibition of Australian and New Zealand artists at the VCA Gallery, Melbourne.

Mossman has worked in various capacities in contemporary art galleries and universities over the past five years. She has contributed to a number of art magazines including Art New Zealand and Photofile , and has written numerous exhibition catalogue essays on contemporary New Zealand and Australian artists.   Mossman's research interests include contemporary art and critical discourse, particularly in creating links between contemporary art and other critical areas of cultural production, involving art as a contributing voice in a wider intellectual, social, and political debate.