2023 Emerging Curator:
Sebastian Henry-Jones
Sebastian Henry-Jones’ curatorial approach is led by an interest in DIY thinking. He looks to centre the needs, ideas and requirements of those that he works with, and so his practice is informed by striving for a personal ethics with sincerity, honest communication, learning, and poetry at its core.
Sebastian is the Curator at West Space, having worked as a Curatorial Assistant for the 22nd and 23rd editions of the Biennale of Sydney, NIRIN and Rivus. Sebastian has staged group exhibitions and independent projects across the East Cost of the continent. He is a co-founder of DIY and experimental arts platforms Desire Lines and Emerson, and former editor at Runway Journal. Seb graduated with a Masters of Art Curating in 2018 from the University of Sydney, and is currently based in Narrm/Melbourne.
Exhibitions/Publications
- Do you know this feeling?, Firstdraft, 6 February – 1 March 2019. https://firstdraft.org.au/program/2019/02/06-sebastian-henry-jones, https://rundog.art/do-you-know-this-feeling/
- Desire Lines Field Notes, co-authored with Maeve Parker, 2019. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5464793ee4b0ae009625259c/t/5cfe39d32b7566000132c343/1560164873210/Desire+Lines+Fieldnotes.pdf
- I will never run out of lies nor love, co-curated with Nanette Orly, Bus Projects, 10 July – 3 August 2019. https://busprojects.org.au/program/i-will-never-run-out-of-lies-nor-love
- On Enduring Structures and New Commitments at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Decolonial Hacker, 15 July 2021. https://www.decolonialhacker.org/article/on-enduring-structures-and-new-commitments-museum-of-contemporary-art-australia
- To listen, not to preserve, co-curated with Isabella Hone-Saunders, West Space and Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, 2022. https://offsite.westspace.org.au/work/to-listen-not-to-preserve-documentation/
- How do we find each other in the dark?, West Space Offsite. https://offsite.westspace.org.au/work/how-do-we-find-each-other-in-the-dark/
- House of Mother Tongue, House of Other Tongue: ‘Speaking Two Things at Once’, Westspace. https://offsite.westspace.org.au/work/speaking-two-things-at-once/