Curators
"An Incomplete World: Works from The UBS Art Collection", has been co-curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe from the Art Gallery New South Wales and Jason Smith from the National Gallery of Victoria. Together they have assembled the exhibition around three linked thematic groups: portraits and people, natural and built environments and transforming places and chosen more than 50 works by 31 international artists spanning the last four decades to represent these themes.
About Wayne Tunnicliffe
Wayne Tunnicliffe is Senior Curator, Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and is responsible for the Gallery’s permanent collection and display of contemporary Australian art as well as the contemporary exhibitions program.
His recent exhibitions and publications for the Gallery include Adventures with form in space (2006), Unscripted – language in contemporary art (2005), Inaugural Anne Landa award exhibition of video and new media art (2004), James Angus, Truck Corridor (2004), Robert Owen, different lights cast different shadows (2004), Mathew Barney the Cremaster Cycle (2004), Still Life (2003), Tracey Emin (2003), Simryn Gill, Selected Work (2002), and BitterSweet (2002).
He co-ordinated Australian Perspecta (1999) and has co-curated over 45 exhibitions in the AGNSW Contemporary Projects series. Recently he oversaw the publishing of the gallery’s contemporary collection book. Mr Tunnicliffe holds a Masters of Arts Administration, University of New South Wales, and a Masters of Arts, Auckland University.
In addition to co-curating An incomplete world, Mr Tunnicliffe is currently developing an exhibition of selected paintings by Australian artist Adam Cullen, as well as a retrospective of artist Tim Johnson in collaboration with the Queensland Art Gallery, Australia.
About Jason Smith
Jason Smith has been Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria since 1997. He has been the curator for 30 exhibitions of contemporary Australian and international art including the major survey exhibitions Louise Bourgeois; Rosslynd Piggott-Suspended Breath; Peter Booth: Human / Nature; Gwyn Hanssen Pigott: A Survey 1955-2005, and Howard Arkley, a comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work. Significant historical and thematic exhibitions include Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002 (the inaugural exhibition for The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia); World_Rush: 4 artists (the inaugural exhibition for the reopening of NGV International); Living Together is Easy: 12 artists from Australia and Japan; 2004: Australian Culture Now and 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth.
Jason Smith is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues and museum collection publications, and he regularly contributes to a range of contemporary art journals.
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