Julie Ewington is a writer, curator and broadcaster based in Sydney. An authority on contemporary Australian art, especially art by women, and contemporary art from Southeast Asia, she has held both academic and curatorial positions, always focusing on contemporary art.
Making memory “in a country with a propensity to forgetting”
Interviews with artists offer invaluable insights—but exhibiting these is another story. Curator Julie Ewington talks through creating a show at the State Library of Queensland Gallery centred on recorded dialogues with artists from Anne Wallace to Vernon Ah Kee to Fiona Foley.