Gertrude Contemporary is proud to announce Léuli Eshrāghi as the 2015 Gertrude Contemporary–Next Wave Emerging Curator.
Next Wave’s Emerging Curators Program was established in collaboration with Gertrude Contemporary over fifteen years ago to support emerging curators to develop ambitious, research-driven exhibition projects on site. In 2014, West Space and the Centre for Contemporary Photography joined to extend the Emerging Curators Program; and in 2015, Liquid Architecture and Arts Project Australia also became exhibition partners.
Léuli Eshrāghi is an artist, writer, curator and PhD candidate at Monash University Art, Design and Architecture (MADA). Eshrāghi's practice is centred on connection to place, indigeneity, memory, erasure, queer possibility, body sovereignty, and multilingual plurality. Léuli holds qualifications in Indigenous Arts Management and Cultural Studies. Eshrāghi is editor of the Oceania Now publication on contemporary art practice for the Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival in Narrm Melbourne, and was Artist in Residence 2015 at Tautai Pacific Arts Trust in TÄ maki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Learn more about Léuli's work here.
Image: Léuli Eshrāghi, 2015. Photograph: David Martin Harris.