Hannah’s recent curatorial projects include Shelley Lasica: WHEN I AM NOT THERE (2022); Vivienne Binns: On and through the surface (2022); D Harding: Through a lens of visitation (2021); Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome is Certain (2020); Shapes of Knowledge, MUMA (2019); and Alicia Frankovich & Lili Reynaud Dewar (2018).
Hannah graduated with a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne in 2002 and has completed curatorial residencies in New York, Berlin, Tokyo and Venice. She has taught in curatorial programs at Melbourne University, Monash University and RMIT University, Melbourne and has held various board positions, including National Association for the Visual Arts, City of Melbourne Arts & Culture and International Art Space, Perth. Her publication, To Note: Notation Across Disciplines won the inaugural Cornish Family Book Prize for Art and Design Publishing in 2018.
Trent Walter is a Sri Lankan/Australian artist, printer and publisher based in Naarm, Melbourne. He established Negative Press in 2009 which operates as a print and book making studio where Walter works with artists and cultural institutions on printed matter. Negative Press also functions as Walter’s publishing imprint for collaborations with artists and for hosting occasional exhibitions.
Walter was an exhibiting artist with Stuart Geddes, for NIRIN, 22nd Biennale of Sydney 2020. The pair collaborated on NIRIN NGAAY (https://nirin-ngaay.net/), exhibited at Carriageworks and also distributed as a bound print publication. He has also collaborated with Fayen d’Evie for “Essays in Gestural Poetics” 2021 and “Ascending/Descending Sonic Shadows” 2019; and Emily Floyd and Experimental Jetset, Amsterdam, on Floyd’s artists’ book “Female Orgasm: A codex of sorts, after Ursula K Le Guin”.
In 2016, Walter and Brook Andrew were commissioned by the City of Melbourne to create a permanent, public artwork commemorating the lives and public execution of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner. The pair were also joint recipients of a Georges Mora Fellowship in 2013–14 and they collaborated on the artists’ book Dual/Duel, published in October 2021.
Trent Walter is a lecturer in Visual Arts at La Trobe University.
Jessyca Hutchens is a Palyku woman living and working on Noongar boodja, and a Lecturer at the School of Indigenous Studies and a Co-Director at the Berndt Museum, at the University of Western Australia. Jessyca is an art historian, curator, and writer who has previously held positions as the Curator at the Berndt Museum, a Curatorial Fellow at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia, the Curatorial Assistant to the Artistic Director for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, and as a Lecturer in Global Art History at the University of Birmingham.
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