Arts & Cultural Professional
Installation view of Slow Churn featuring: Yasmin Smith, Lindy Lee and Jody Rallah, The Condensery | Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Jinibara Country, Toogoolawah, Queensland. Curated by Olivia Welch and Rachel Arndt. Photo by Jim Filmer.
Elizabeth Willing, Kernel, 2019-2022, performance as a part of Slow Churn, The Condensery | Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Jinibara Country, Toogoolawah, Queensland. Curated by Olivia Welch and Rachel Arndt. Photo by Jim Filmer.
Installation view of Slow Churn featuring: Yasmin Smith, Lindy Lee and Jody Rallah, The Condensery | Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Jinibara Country, Toogoolawah, Queensland. Curated by Olivia Welch and Rachel Arndt. Photo by Jim Filmer.
SHORT BIO:
Olivia Welch is based on Gadigal Land. She is Exhibitions Manager at Museums & Galleries of NSW, developing touring exhibitions and associated sector development. Olivia holds a First-Class Honours degree, Art History and Theory and Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership from UNSW. Olivia worked in exhibitions at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal (2015–2018) and MAY SPACE, Sydney (2009– 2018). Recent professional development includes mentorships with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2020-2022), Ballarat International Foto Biennale (2021), and This Is Who We Are, a UK-Australian program for creative women of colour (2022). Recently, Olivia co-curated Slow Churn at The Condensery, Queensland (2022) with Rachel Arndt.
< portrait by Elize Strydom