Exit Interview: Zara Stanhope, QAGOMA Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art
Serving artists and creating a safe and welcome space for creatives of all backgrounds to work were Zara Stanhope's greatest intentions in her past role with QAGOMA, as she looks forward to her next chapter in New Zealand.
Zara Stanhope, Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, QAGOMA Photograph: Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA.
Zara Stanhope has concluded her role at Asian and Pacific Art at Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, to head across ‘the ditch’ to take up the lead job at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre in New Plymouth (NZ) in March next year.
The New Zealand gallery has been without a Director for more than half a year after co-directors, husband-and-wife duo Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, resigned after just 12-months (formerly at Institute of Modern Art also in Brisbane) to head to Canada.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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