Executive Director
Blair French
blairf@artspace.org.au

Previously employed at Performance Space, Sydney as Associate Director Blair joined Artspace as Executive Director in January 2006.

Since arriving in Australia from New Zealand in the mid-1990s Blair has worked extensively as a curator and writer, helping to develop and bring to the fore the work of a range of exciting and now highly visible artists working across a range of practices, including those based in photography, moving image and performance. 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. Particular curatorial projects at Artspace include the largest solo exhibition to date of the work of Shaun Gladwell (In a Station of the Metro, 2007), an eight-week international performance/installation program (Aftermath, 2007), and large scale projects with Rose Nolan (Why Do We Do The Things We Do, 2008, with Robert Leonard) and Bruce Barber (Reading and Writing Rooms, 2008, with Brad Buckley). Blair’s book length publications include Twelve Australian Photo Artists (with Daniel Palmer, Piper Press, Sydney, 2009), Out of Time: Essays between Photography and Art (CACSA, Adelaide, 2006) and Photo Files: An Australian Photography Reader (Power Publications & ACP, 1999).

Blair has previously 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. He was President of CAOs (Contemporary Art Organisations Australia) 2006-2009.

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. His projects for Artspace include solo exhibitions by Hiroharu Mori, David Griggs, Carla Cescon, Wade Marynowsky, Mimi Tong, Julia Gorman, William Seeto, Lily Hibberd and Vernon Ah Kee, as well as Publicity, an exhibition in two iterations at Artspace and the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, and Between Site & Space, a residency and exhibition exchange with Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan. He was editor (with Natasha Bullock) of Zones of Contact: A Critical Reader (Artspace, 2006), and, with Blair French, co-edits Artspace’s periodical Column. His critical writing appears in a range of local and international publications, and accompanies projects at exhibition platforms ranging from artist-run initiatives to major institutions.

Studio & Public Programs Coordinator
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.

Communications
Jai McKenzie
jaimc@artspace.org.au

Jai McKenzie is a Sydney based artist, whose practice and academic research engages with issues concerning our relationship to photomedia technology and the related experiences of light, space and time. Her work has been exhibited regularly in Australia and overseas. Jai has studied at the Universität der Künste, Berlin and is currently a PhD candidate at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. Her thesis investigates the history and future of photomedia with regard to light-space and light-time structures. She has delivered lectures in Australia and the United States of America on this topic and casually lectures in the Media Arts department at Sydney College of the Arts.

Gallery Technician
Paul Greedy
paulg@artspace.org.au

Paul's art practice engages with the phenomenal world and the complexities of physical dynamics. The sensory encounters he composes seek to expand our understanding of how energy shapes our perceptions. Paul graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Western Sydney in 2006 and has since exhibited at various regional and metropolitan spaces. Paul joined the Artspace team in February 2009.