Building Communities through Open Art School with Emily Wakeling

Your Facilitator: Emily Wakeling 

Emily Wakeling is a curator and art writer. She is Curator of Rockhampton Museum of Art, and previously held positions at Artspace Mackay, Queensland Art Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art. As a University of Queensland graduate, Emily has a Masters in Art History via the thesis ‘Girls are dancin’: shojo culture and feminism in contemporary Japanese art’ (2010). Working across curating, art writing, and museum learning, Emily spent six years in Tokyo in multiple arts-related roles including Editor of the arts website Tokyo Art Beat. In Australia, she has been co-director of Brisbane art space Boxcopy; initiated curatorial projects for Metro Arts, Brisbane and Bus Projects, Melbourne; led peer critiques for Mackay artists; and been commissioned to curate for Japan Foundation Sydney. Emily is also a long-serving freelance writer who has contributed to Artforum, ArtAsiaPacific, Japan Times, Tokyo Art Beat, Art Review Asia, Real Tokyo, Eyeline and Art Monthly Australia.