The AAANZ 2024 conference convenors are delighted to announce keynote Kimberley Moulton.
Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman based between Melbourne and London. She is an accomplished Senior Curator and writer and is Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art at Tate Modern and Senior Curator at RISING, Melbourne’s international arts festival. Previously Kimberley held Senior curatorial roles at Museums Victoria (2008-2023). Kimberley works with knowledge, histories and futures at the intersection of historical collections and contemporary art and her practice works to rethink global art histories and extend what exhibitions and research in and out of institutions can be for First Peoples communities and artists more broadly.
Kimberley held senior curatorial and community arts development roles at Museums Victoria for 15 years and curated over 18 exhibitions, including most recently the co-curatorial projects the Tri-nations Triennial Naadohbii: To Draw Water (2021-2023) and award winning More Than A Tarrang (tree): Memory, Material and Cultural Agency (2023), in 2023 Kimberley was appointed a Curator Emeritus at Museums Victoria. With a focus on collaboration, community care and creative development she is currently a Senior Curator for RISING festival Melbourne curating most recently city-wide public art projects MOVING OBJECTS (2021) and was the inaugural curator for the First Peoples Art Trams project profiling First Peoples artists in the state’s largest public arts project. Recently she conceived of and curated the ground-breaking exhibition, Shadow Spirit presenting 14 new large-scale commissions at the historic rooms of Flinders Street Station from First Peoples artists across Australia, the first exhibition of its kind. Through her work at Tate Modern and the Hyundai Research Centre Transnational Kimberley works on research, acquisition, and exhibition development for global Indigenous art. In 2024 she conceived the iterative program of talks, performance and workshops titled We Are Eagles that amplify the voices and practices of Indigenous artists at Tate Modern and connects transnational conversations on regenerative practice and de-colonisation.
Kimberley is a respected creative practitioner in her field through her innovative curatorial and research practice which has been transforming spaces of the historical archive and contemporary art curation with a focus on developing new approach to anti-colonial curatorial practice. Dedicated to new methodology, advocacy and Indigenous led research placing community voice and culture and the core of her work her practice is centred on relationships and critically looking at art and museum histories through a First Peoples perspective. Kimberley has written extensively for art publications nationally and internationally and held research, curatorial and writing fellowships across the world. Alongside her museum practice Kimberley has independently curated shows in art museums across Australia, USA and Canada and participated in numerous arts selection and advisory committees. In 2019 Kimberley won the Sydney Power Institute National Indigenous Arts Writing Award for her chapter ‘I Can Still Hear Them Calling, Echoes Of My Ancestors’ in the highly acclaimed book with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway Sovereign Words: Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism.
She is a PhD candidate in curatorial practice with the Wominjeka Djeembana Research Lab Monash University, Deputy Chair of the Board Shepparton Art Museum and member of the board for the Adam Briggs Foundation. In 2025 she is the curator of the TarraWarra Biennial.
AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES will be hosted by the Australian National University, Canberra, Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 December
For queries regarding the conference please contact conf@aaanz.info
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