Ellie Buttrose: Behind the scenes of 'kith and kin'

Dispatch Review is honoured to present a free public lecture by curator Ellie Buttrose.

In this talk, Buttrose will share her curatorial methodology for the 2024 Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the exhibition kith and kin featuring Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Buttrose is the curator of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the curator of Contemporary Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Her recent curatorial projects at QAGOMA include: Living Patterns (2023), featuring artists who use abstraction as both a political and formal device; Embodied Knowledge (2022), a survey of contemporary Queensland art co-curated with Katina Davidson; Work, Work, Work (2019), examining the intersection of civic and artistic labour; and Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective (2017), which reconsidered the impact of drone vision on contemporary art through First Nations and East Asian painting traditions.

Image credit: Archie Moore, kith and kin, exhibition installation view, Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Venice, 2024; © Archie Moore; courtesy of the artist and The Commercial; photo: Andrea Rossetti.