Curators
Documentary Series
ABC Arts
2017
Curators - Paola Balla
Writer, Producer, Director: Tim Stone
Editor: Ante Kuric
Camera: Tim Stone, Mikael Brain, Josh Moore
Composer: Alister Morley
Sound: Tim Stone, Josh Moore
Audio Post: Andrew Jobson, Mark Street
Online Editor: Steve Clark
Titles and Graphics: Aya Hatano
Production Coordinator: Dayna Thompson
Production Manager: Kieran Bycroft
Production Executive: Michelle Frampton
Have you ever wondered what a curator does? This series lifts the lid on the secretive world of exhibition making as five curators discuss their work and highlight one artwork deeply significant to them.
For curator Paola Balla, Maree Clarke's 'Born of the Land' is a powerful video installation that recreates Indigenous cultural practice and resonates with a highly personal message about overcoming loss.
Curators - Simon Maidment
Writer, Producer, Director: Tim Stone
Editor: Ante Kuric
Camera: Tim Stone, Peter Healy, Josh Moore
Composer: Alister Morley
Sound: Tim Stone, Chris Coltman
Audio Post: Andrew Jobson, Mark Street
Online Editor: Steve Clark
Titles and Graphics: Aya Hatano
Production Coordinator: Dayna Thompson
Production Manager: Kieran Bycroft
Production Executive: Michelle Frampton
For Simon Maidment, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria; artist Brook Andrew's 'Vox Beyond Tasmania' has an inexhaustible power similar to that of many other great works of art.
Curators - Mark Feary
Writer, Producer, Director: Tim Stone
Editor: Ante Kuric
Camera: Tim Stone, Peter Healy, Josh Moore
Composer: Alister Morley
Sound: Tim Stone, Chris Coltman, Josh Moore
Audio Post: Andrew Jobson, Mark Street
Online Editor: Steve Clark
Titles and Graphics: Aya Hatano
Production Coordinator: Dayna Thompson
Production Manager: Kieran Bycroft
Production Executive: Michelle Frampton
For Mark Feary, Director of Gertrude Contemporary, most public art is ill-considered and rarely engages with its audience. But he makes an exception when it comes to Ronnie Van Hout's towering robot sculpture 'DAYTON'.
Curators - Rebecca Coates
Writer, Producer, Director: Tim Stone
Editor: Ante Kuric
Camera: Tim Stone, Peter Healy
Composer: Alister Morley
Sound: Tim Stone, Chris Coltman, Josh Moore
ABC Archives: Kate Jarvis, Lenny DeVries
Audio Post: Andrew Jobson, Mark Street
Online Editor: Steve Clark
Titles and Graphics: Aya Hatano
Production Coordinator: Dayna Thompson
Production Manager: Kieran Bycroft
Production Executive: Michelle Frampton
For Rebecca Coates, Ben Quilty's ceramic jug 'Private Phil Butler' is an important addition to the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) collection because it tells a personal story about war that resonates with the gallery's audience.
Curators - Patrice Sharkey
Writer, Producer, Director: Tim Stone
Editor: Ante Kuric
Camera: Tim Stone, Mikael Brain, Josh Moore
Composer: Alister Morley
Sound: Tim Stone
Audio Post: Andrew Jobson, Mark Street
Online Editor: Steve Clark
Titles and Graphics: Aya Hatano
Production Coordinator: Dayna Thompson
Production Manager: Kieran Bycroft
Production Executive: Michelle Frampton
In 2016 Patrice Sharkey, Director of Melbourne's West Space, commissioned artist Lisa Radford to create an ambitious new work. The result was part-installation, part-theatre that challenged the way audiences engage with art.