Executive Director
Blair French
blairf@artspace.org.au

Blair joined Artspace as Executive Director in January 2006 after having spent just over three years as Associate Director at Performance Space, Sydney. Prior to arriving in Sydney in the mid-1990s Blair worked in Art Galleries and Museums in NZ and the UK. In Sydney he has worked as Program Manager at the Australian Centre for Photography; taught at both the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW and at the University of Western Sydney; and completed both an MA and a PhD at the University of Sydney.
 
Over the past decade as a curator and writer Blair has helped develop and bring to the fore the work of a range of exciting and now highly visible artists working particularly in the fields of photo and video-based practice. His series of Video Spell and Who’s Afraid of the Avant-Garde? exhibitions at Performance Space during 2003 - 2005 gained a national profile, serving to highlight the key histories and trajectories of video art over the past three decades as well as the burgeoning social and political engagement of contemporary Australian art. His book, Out of Time: Essays between Photography and Art, was published by the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia in late 2006.


General Manager
Helen Hyatt-Johnston
helenhj@artspace.org.au

Helen has been at Artspace one way or another for quite some time and became the General Manager in 2002. She was the curator of "I Wasn't Born Lucky, I was Born Blonde", "Picture This" and "20/20 Vision" and has acted in Polk-a-Polk's "Kung-Fu Chicks Comin at Cha", "Sex Starved Space Sluts", "Slab", "Steroid Stampede", "Boots" and "Headless". She is one half of the collaborative duo the Twilight Girls and writes under a pseudonym.


Curator
Reuben Keehan
reubenk@artspace.org.au

Reuben has been actively involved in artist-run, alternative and public spaces in Sydney since the late 90s, working in curatorial, educational and programming roles at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Australian Centre for Photography before joining Artspace as Curator in March 2006. In addition to curatorship and residency coordination, he maintains a hybrid practice encompassing writing, translation, archiving, publishing and education. His research interests include critical and experimental art, contemporary cultural theory and autonomous exhibition practices.

Reuben is a frequent contributor of critical writing to local and international publications, and provides catalogue essays for exhibition platforms ranging from artist-run initiatives to major public institutions. He was editor (with Natasha Bullock) of Zones of Contact: A Critical Reader (Artspace, 2006), guest editor of Photofile 75: In the City and maintains an online archive devoted to the history and theory of the Situationist International.


Gallery & Studio Administrator
Tracy Burgess
tracyb@artspace.org.au

Tracy moved from California to Australia in early 2005 where she completed postgraduate studies at the University of Sydney. After graduating with an MA of Museum Studies she then worked with the 2006 Biennale of Sydney as an Exhibition Assistant before joining the Artspace staff in 2007.

Public Programs
Kylie Johnson
kyliej@artspace.org.au

Kylie Johnson is a multi media artist whose practice incorporates curatorial projects. Kylie has studied at the Glasgow School of Art, U.K. and received an MFA from the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania. Professional activities include; founding member of the Hobart artist run initiative INFLIGHT, teaching in the E-media department at the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania and Exhibitions Officer, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, CAST.

Communications
Jai McKenzie
jaimc@artspace.org.au

Jai is an artist whose practice utilises digital photographic and video technology to produce video works, multimedia installations, interactive structures and photographic prints and has exhibited regularly in Australia and overseas. Her work engages with issues that surround our relationship to photomedia technology and the related experiences of time, space and light. Jai is currently a PhD candidate at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, her thesis investigates the connection between photomedia, light-space and light-time.

Gallery Technician
Adam Costenoble
adamc@artspace.org.au

Adam Costenoble is a Sydney-based emerging artist whose practice to date has focused on video, sound and installation, however, he considers himself a non-medium specific conceptual artist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Western Sydney in 2005. He began employment with Artspace in 2007 and has been enjoying himself immensely ever since.