What
questions must we ask,
conversations should we have,
work must we do and
what dreams can we permit ourselves to have,
…if we are to create reveal the sound, inclusive society we want to live in?
Arts/Cultural Leadership and Arts Administration
- Director, Curatorial and Cultural Collections at University of Tasmania (March 2023 to present)
- Interim University Librarian, University of Tasmania (March 2024 - December 2024)
- Arts/Culture Work: CAUMAC Council for Australian Universities Museums and Collections, Co-Chair, August 2023+
- Facilitation Work: Future States - strategy facilitation, team and organisation development consultancy
- Facilitation Work: Mediation and conflict-resolution through the Resolution Institute
- Community: Advisory program panelist for TEDxHobart 2022
Selected Curatorial: Recent and Upcoming
New curatorial and producing portfolio coming soon
- Curator: Interfacial Intimacies, 2023 - 2026 for Dark Mofo 2023 and National Tour (next: Redcliffe Art Gallery QLD, 18 May 2024 - 27 Jul 2024
- Curator: Artificial Inheritance, 2024, Plimsoll Gallery TAS
Selected previous
- Organisational: Associate Director, Cultural Collections, University of Tasmania, 2020- 2023
- Organisational: Audience Engagement Manager at the UWA Cultural Precinct (Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery + Berndt Museum)
- Community: Facilitator, Big Draw at Perth - campaign on drawing, creativity, and visual literacy
- Inclusion: Producer/co-curator for Inaugural Inclusive Arts Week WA
- Inclusion: Arts programming for visitors with varying abilities at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery such as 3D-Printing applications as tactile versions of paintings and photographs for people living with visual impairment
- Arts & Health: Institute of Creative Health - Arts and Health WA Leadership Team Member
- Inclusion: Churchill Fellow for arts inclusion and access in galleries and museums
- Community: Team member, Junba Project, Mowanjum Arts and Cultural Centre
- Community: Producer, The School of Life Perth Pop-Up - a social enterprise dedicated to developing emotional intelligence (2014)
- Community: Curator and Production Lead (2011 - 2016) at TEDxPerth, an independently licensed local TED event uncovering ideas worth spreading
- Community: Organiser, Perth Minimalists Meet-up dedicated to encouraging communities to live a life of less clutter - physical and emotional, through minimalism.
currently living and working as a guest on the unceded lands of the palawa+pakana peoples of lutruwita tasmania
caine chennatt