Clothilde Bullen

Clothilde returns to the Art Gallery of Western Australia after four and a half years as Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia (MCA).

Bullen has independently curated several shows including Darkness on the Edge of Town in 2016 at Artbank, Sydney, and When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in 2017. Most recently for the MCA, Bullen curated Richard Bell: You Can Go Now and The National: New Australian Art, as well as the award-winning John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new.

Bullen was one of 5 artist-curator teams selected as finalists to curate the Australian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2018. She was a member of the foundation committee for the Wesfarmers and National Gallery Arts Leadership program in 2009, and was selected for the British Council Accelerate Program for Indigenous Leadership in the Arts in 2014. She has written for multiple publications and catalogues and was the commissioning co-Editor for the June 2018 edition of Artlink magazine.

As a board member of the Art Monthly Australasia Board, Bullen instigated a 2-year program to support Indigenous arts writers in partnership with Sydney University’s Power Institute. She currently serves on several Boards, including the Create NSW Museum and Histories Board, the Fremantle Biennale Board, and was recently elected as the Chairperson of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).

Photo: Jamie James.

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Clothilde Bullen
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AGWA Curator and Head of Indigenous Programs
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