The curatorial committee is a small group of artists and people with a passion for and experience with a range of artistic practices who guide, advise and make decisions relating to the Watch This Space creative program. The committee works alongside and in partnership with the WTS staff members, the WTS Board and First Nations advisory board.

Our curatorial committee is always made up of long-standing knowledgeable artists and arts workers within the Mparntwe and Northern Territory community. Any conflicts of interest are handled with the utmost professionalism and care.

CURATORIAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

CHARLIE PERRY

Charlie Perry is an artist, curator and creative producer based in Darwin. Primarily working with photography, his arts practice is centred around learning and unlearning Australia’s colonial past and present, and the distortion of historical story telling. Charlie’s work is driven by community engagement and collaboration. either produce or manipulate sound, but has recently begun applying this knowledge to video synthesis. Over recent years Charlie has worked with remote Indigenous community art centres, most recently in Papunya where he worked as Men’s Development Coordinator at Papunya Tjupi Arts. His current role is Community Connections Art and Culture, Coordinator at The University of Melbourne’s Place for Indigenous Art and Culture supporting communities of origin to engage with their historic cultural material and to support the continuation of cultural and artistic practices in communities in Arnhem Land, Cape York, Central and Gibson Deserts. He is currently completing a Masters of Curatorial and Museum Studies and The University of Adelaide.

GEORGIE MATTINGLEY

Georgie is an artist who makes photographs, paintings, videos and public installations.

Their work uses colour and beauty and to make society’s hidden spaces more visible. By visually transforming these spaces, Georgie wants to unravel the value systems that repress them and invite a more holistic acceptance of realities that Western society encourages us to avoid.

Georgie currently lives and works in Mparntwe on Arrernte Country (Central Australia).

DAN MURPHY

An Alice Springs based artist in Australia, Dan Murphy who was born in 1963 in Melbourne, arrived in Alice Springs in 1994, making Central Australia his home. He is renowned for his art made out of scrap metal from cars.

A self taught artist, Dan has established a reputation within the NT and nationally as an innovative sculptor and highly regarded artist.

Dan produces works of small-scale as well as major collector’s pieces and commissions. His works constructed from found metallic materials including fencing wire, roofing iron and old car panels have a distinctive Territory feel. His exhibitions have been highly successful. Over the years, Dan has participated in a number of community arts projects in remote communities and in Alice Springs. These include, facilitating small scale bush toys in Santa Teresa as part of the Fencing Shed Project and constructing a monumental 18 meter long metal caterpillar at the Alice Springs Cultural Precinct.