In 1993, he was commissioned by The Art Gallery of New South Wales to research and curate The Artists of Hill End an exhibition that focused on the post-war shift in landscape perceptions and people’s relationship to place. In 1996 he was presented with the National Award in Research and Communication by the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects for the project. In 1998 he curated the successful touring exhibition, Escape Artists: Modernists in the Tropics, for the Cairns Regional Gallery. As part of Sydney’s 1999 cultural Olympiad, he curated and organised the acclaimed photographic tour, David Moore and Sydney Harbour: 50 years of photography. In 2001, he conceived and curated the regional touring exhibition Rivers + Rocks: select works of Arthur Boyd and Brett Whiteley for the Bundanon Trust. In 2000, he was commissioned by Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery to research and curate the gallery’s first major exhibition, The Big River Show: Murrumbidgee Riverine. The exhibition was launched in October 2002. In the same year, he was commissioned to curate Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn the inaugural exhibition for Artspace Mackay launched in February 2003. Two major exhibitions, Fireworks: tracing the incendiary in Australian art for Artspace Mackay, and Encounters with country: landscapes of Ray Crooke for Cairns Regional Gallery toured metropolitan and regional centres throughout the country in 2005-2007. In 2006 he was commissioned by Orange Regional Gallery to develop and curate his original concept relating to food and art., Cuisine & Country: a gastronomic venture in Australian art which was launched in April 2007 at Orange Regional Gallery by renowned chef Tony Bilson. Attendences at the show were the highest on record. |