Speakers

Daniel Marshall (he/they) is an Associate Professor in the Writing, Literature & Culture group in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Daniel’s publications include the co/edited books Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies, Queer Youth Histories, Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship and Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne. Daniel has previously held positions as an invited Visiting Scholar at the Center for LGBTQ Studies (City University of New York) and the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research (London South Bank University). From 2017-2021, Daniel oversaw the development and introduction of the new Gender and Sexuality Studies Major at Deakin. Daniel is also a past President of the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) and established its Queer Youth Education Project.

Sophie Gerhard is Assistant Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Prior to joining the NGV in 2019, she completed a Master of Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne, and has also studied art history in the United Kingdom and Spain. Gerhard regularly contributes to the field of art history, most recently in the NGV publications WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture and She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism. Gerhard is currently curating an exhibition entitled Watercolour Country: 100 works from Hermannsburg and often works on shows which draw links between Australian and First Nations art. Gerhard is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, researching how postcolonial shame impacts the curating of Australian art history.

Meet Information Desk, Ground Level, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square

Speakers

Alex Creece is a writer, poet, collage artist, and average kook living and working on Wadawurrung land. Alex works as the Online Editor for Archer Magazine and the Production Editor for Cordite Poetry Review. She’s also on the editorial committee for Sunder Journal. Alex was awarded a Write-ability Fellowship in 2019 and a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship in 2020. A sample of Alex’s work was Highly Commended in the 2019 Next Chapter Scheme, and she was shortlisted for the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship. In 2022, Alex was shortlisted for the inaugural Born Writers Award and the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award. She’s been published with Australian Poetry Journal, Aniko Press, SBS Online, and more. Her collages have been shown at The Dax Centre and Geelong Art Space.

Dr Ted Gott is Senior Curator, International Art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and was one of the co-curators of QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection. He has curated and co-curated more than 25 exhibitions, including Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire and Napoleon: Revolution to Empire. He has published widely on Australian, British and French art, and in 2013 co-authored a cultural history of the gorilla in nineteenth and twentieth century art, literature, scientific discourse and cinema (Gorilla, Reaktion Press, London).

Meg Slater (she/they) is Curator, International Exhibition Projects at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Since 2017, Meg has worked on a number of the NGV’s major international exhibitions, including MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the forthcoming Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi. Meg was also one of the five curators who organised QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection (2022), the most historically expansive thematic presentation of its kind ever presented by an Australian art institution. In 2021, Meg completed a Master of Art Curatorship at The University of Melbourne with First Class Honours. Meg’s thesis explored the potential for large arts institutions to more meaningfully engage with marginal subjects and histories through exhibition making and programming.

Coral Guan is Project Assistant, International Exhibition Projects at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Exhibitions she has worked on include the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibitions The Picasso Century and the forthcoming Pierre Bonnard: Designed by India Mahdavi. Coral is currently completing a Master of Art Curatorship at The University of Melbourne, with curatorial interests in cultural histories that exist on the periphery. Recently, she co-curated Labour Lexica at Linden Projects Space, exploring labour, futility and language.

Meet Information Desk, Ground Level, NGV International