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Projects

Glenn Barkley Skiesful-Treesful 2025-26 working mock up

Skiesful/Treesful by Glenn Barkley
(forthcoming, mid-2026)
Permanent commission at Shoalhaven Hospital
Client: Health Infrastructure NSW
Image: Artist digital model

Installation view of Blak Douglas’ ‘Pirrama positive repetition’ The Rocks. Photo: Katherine Cordwell Photography.jpeg

Pirrama positive repetition by Blak Douglas
November 2025 - January 2026
Temporary public artwork at The Rocks, Sydney
Curated by Array - TCD & Caper Creative Collaboration
Client: Placemaking NSW
Image: Installation view of Blak Douglas’ ‘Pirrama positive repetition’ The Rocks, 2025-26. Photo: Katherine Cordwell Photography

Installation image of artwork by Jumaadi called Upside-Down Garden installed at Barangaroo in December 2025. Curated by Holly Williams and Glenn Barkley.

Upside-Down Garden by Jumaadi
Installed December 2025
Permanent public commission at Barangaroo
Co-curated by Holly Williams and Glenn Barkley
Client: LendLease
Image: ‘Upside-Down Garden’ by Jumaadi at Barangaroo, December 2025. Photo: Mark Pokorny

Installation view of Izabela Pluta's Operative Tectonics at M:Park, Jan 2026. Curated by Holly Williams. Photo: The Curators' Department

Operative Tectonics by Izabela Pluta
Installed January 2026
Permanent foyer tapestry for M:Park, Macquarie Park
Curated by Holly Williams
Client: Stockland
Image: Installation view of Izabela Pluta's Operative Tectonics at M:Park, Jan 2026. Photo: TCD

Installation detail of Nancy Liang’s Old Spaces (2019-ongoing) part of ‘Seen/Unseen’ public art trail for Art & Culture Month, The Rocks. Curated by Array, a collaboration between The Curators’ Department and Caper Creative

Seen/Unseen public art trail for Art & Culture Month
September 2025
Temporary Art Trail with Nancy Liang, Jumaadi, Vanessa Berry and Linda Brescia at The Rocks, Sydney
Curated by Array - A TCD & Caper Creative Collaboration
Client: Placemaking NSW
Image: Nancy Liang ‘Old Spaces’ 2025. Photo: TCD

Installation detail EM Lane Concordians Museum Concord Hospital, curated by Holly Williams. May 2025. Photo: TCD.jpg

New EM Lane Concordians Museum
2025-ongoing
Curated by Holly Williams
Concord Hospital, Concord, Sydney
Client: The Concordians
Image: Installation detail EM Lane Concordians Museum, Concord Hospital, Sydney. Curated by Holly Williams. May 2025. Photo: TCD

Wonderwater summer festival and
Great Southern Lego Brick Reef
2023-24
Festival and exhibition curator Holly Williams
Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM), Sydney
Client: ANMM
Installation view. Photo TCD

Beach, Barks, Banksias Rose Bay Placemaking project with mural by Sharon Billinge
January 2023-ongoing
Percival Lane Rose Bay
Co-curated by Holly Williams and Melissa Cook
Client: Woollahra Municipal Council. funded by NSW Government’s Streets as Shared Spaces program
Image: Mural by Sharon Billinge, Percival Lane, Rose Bay. Co-curated by Holly Williams and Melissa Cook

Installation detail of Emily Crockford + Rosie Deacon’s Rainbow Mermaid Fireworks. 2023-24 at ANMM. Curated by Holly Williams

Rainbow Mermaid Fireworks by Emily Crockford + Rosie Deacon (part of Wonderwater)
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
Curated by Holly Williams for the Wonderwater iteration
Client: ANMM
Image: Installation detail of Emily Crockford + Rosie Deacon’s ‘Rainbow Mermaid Fireworks.’ 2023-24 at ANMM. Curated by Holly Williams. Photo: TCD

Boowambillee / Shark Island mural by Claire FoxtonWilberforce Ave, Rose Bay
February 2023 - ongoing
Curated by Holly Williams and Melissa Cook
Client: Woollahra Municipal Council. funded by NSW Government’s Streets as Shared Spaces program
Image: Detail of mural by Claire Foxton at Wilberforce Carpark, Rose Bay. Co-curated with Melissa Cook, Caper Creative

Installation view of Shallow Iridescence 2023-2025. Photo by Sahlan Hayes. Co-curated by Holly Williams  The Curators' Department.webp

Shallow Iridescence perspective mural by InkHunter 2023 - 2025
Australian National Maritime Museum forecourt
Co-curated by Holly Williams with Tyson Frigo (ANMM)
Client: ANMM
Image: Installation view of ‘Shallow Iridescence ‘ by InkHunter 2023-2025. Co-curated by Holly Williams with ANMM. Photo: Sahlan Hayes.

Rose Bay placemaking + Concrete Carpet mural by Alice McAuliffe
January 2023 - ongoing
Curation and design by Holly Williams and Melissa Cook.
Collins Lane, Rose Bay
Client: Woollahra Municipal Council. funded by NSW Government’s Streets as Shared Spaces program
Image: Collins Lane, Rose Bay - curation and design by Holly Williams and Melissa Cook. Mural by Alice McAuliffe

Rose Bay placemaking Percival Park refresh including Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub species supplied and planted by IndgiGrow. each Bollard paint treatment devised by Holly Williams and Melissa Cook. Designed by Melissa Cook, Caper Creative.
January 2023 - ongoing
Percival Park, Rose Bay
Client: Woollahra Municipal Council. funded by NSW Government’s Streets as Shared Spaces program
Image: TCD

The Wharfie's Mural exhibition
2022-2025
Curated by Holly Williams
Australian National Maritime Museum
Client: ANMM
Photo: TCD

One Bright Pearl by Lindy Lee
Permanent public art commission
2022 - ongoing
Curated by Holly Williams
Blackburn Gardens, Double Bay
Client: Woollahra Municipal Council
Image: Lindy Lee One Bright Pearl 2022, Blackburn Gardens. Image courtesy and © the artist. Photo: Steven Seiwert

Exhibition installation view

For the Government of the Day: Australia's Public Service
2021 - ongoing
Curated by Holly Williams
Permanent exhibition, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
Client: Australian Public Service
Image: Exhibition installation view. Photo: TCD

Richard Whiteley: Illuminated Space solo exhibition
April-Oct 2019
Curated by Holly Williams
Shanghai Museum of Glass, China
Image: Quadrant 3 by Richard Whiteley. courtesy the artist.

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Working model of the world (New York)
2017
Co-curated by Holly Williams and Dr Lizzie Muller
Parsons School of Design, NYC
Installation view Parsons School of Design, New York

A Dog’s Breakfast ‘What the Pup?!’ by Cathy Wilcox

A dog's breakfast: Behind the Lines 2020
Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
Curated by Holly Williams
Political cartoon survey exhibition, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
Client: MOAD
Image: A Dog’s Breakfast ‘What the Pup?!’ by Cathy Wilcox

Mechelle Bounpraseuth, Breadface, 2016, ceramic, dimensions variable. Image courtesy the artist.

Something Else is Alive: Sydney and the Animal Instinct 2017-2018
Co-curated by Holly Williams, Glenn Barkley and Ivan Muñiz-Reed
Customs House, Sydney
Client: City of Sydney
Image: Mechelle Bounpraseuth, Breadface, 2016, ceramic, dimensions variable. Image courtesy the artist.

Sydney's tallest buildings by Richard Braddish

A working model of the world (Sydney)
2017
Co-curated by Holly Williams and Dr Lizzie Muller
UNSW Galleries, Sydney
Image: Sydney's tallest buildings by Richard Braddish

Prophecy & Chance: behind the lines 2021
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Curated by Holly Williams
Political cartoon survey exhibition, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
Client: MOAD
Image: Installation view Photo: TCD

Truth, Power and a Free Press | Museum of Australian Democracy

Truth, power and a free press permanent gallery
Nov 2019 - ongoing
Curated by Holly Williams contract project
Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra
Client: MoAD 2019
Image: Truth, Power and a Free Press | Museum of Australian Democracy. Photo: TCD

Heidi Lefebvre's installation at UQ Art Museum

Look at me looking at you' - the 2017 National Self Portrait Prize
2017
Co-curated by Holly Williams, Glenn Barkley and Ivan Muñiz-Reed
UQ Art Museum
Image: Heidi Lefebvre's installation at UQ Art Museum

Tony Garifalakis, Declassified Document #3, 2014. Enamel paint on magazines, 25 x 18 x 1 cm each. Installation view, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2015. Image courtesy of the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery, Melbourne © the artist

REPERTOIRES OF CONTENTION: TONY GARIFALAKIS AND JOAQUIN SEGURA
2017
Curated by Ivan Muñiz-Reed
Image: Tony Garifalakis, Declassified Document #3, 2014. Enamel paint on magazines, 25 x 18 x 1 cm each. Installation view, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2015. Image courtesy of the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery, Melbourne © the artist

Jon Rose: the museum goes live
2016
Curated by Holly Williams
Performance Space's Liveworks
Carriageworks
Client: Performance Space
Image: Installation view by Alex Davies

overundersidewaysdown
2016
Curated by Glenn Barkley
Image: Installation view

Turn Turn Turn: 50 years of Studio Ceramics tradition at the National Art School
2015
Curated by Glenn Barkley
National Art School, Sydney
Image: Stephen Bird, Wall of plates, 2015, ceramics, dimensions variable. Image courtesy and © the artist

National Visual Arts Showcase: Right Here Now
2015-16
Co-curated by Holly Williams, Glenn Barkley and Ivan Muñiz-Reed
Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra
Image: Jessie Pangas, 'House of Congress', 2015, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 91.5×91.5 cm. Courtesy the artist

Callum Morton, Monument #29, 2009. Installation view, Sydney Contemporary, 2015. Image courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney © the artist.

Installation Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary
2015
Co-curated by Holly Williams, Glenn Barkley and Ivan Muñiz-Reed
Image: Callum Morton, Monument #29, 2009. Installation view, Sydney Contemporary, 2015. Image courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney © the artist.

John R Walker: Here I give thanks
2015
Curated by Glenn Barkley with Ivan Muñiz-Reed
Image: John R Walker, Six Days at Bundanon and I Give Thanks to Boyd, 2001, oil on canvas, 183 x 221 cm. Image courtesy Utopia Gallery, Sydney © the artist.

Creative Accounting
2016-17
Curated by Holly Williams
Touring exhibition - 7 venues
Image: Abdullah M. I. Syed (detail) courtesy the artist

David Rowe, commissioned cartoon for Behind the Lines 2017, 2017

Three-ring circus: Behind the Lines 2017
2017-2018
Curated by Holly Williams
Client: MOAD
Image: David Rowe, commissioned cartoon 2017

Meredith Woolnough, Mushroom Coral Mandala 2013, embroidery thread and pins on paper, 93 x 93cm. Image courtesy the artist.

Open House: Tamworth Textile Triennale Touring Exhibition
2017-20
Curated by Glenn Barkley
Touring
Image: Meredith Woolnough, Mushroom Coral Mandala 2013, embroidery thread and pins on paper, 93 x 93cm. Image courtesy the artist.

At the junction of two rivers: the Wellington project
2016
Co-curated by Holly Williams, Glenn Barkley and Ivan Muñiz-Reed
Wellington, NSW
Image: Installation view. Photo: TCD

Rosalie Gascoigne, White Garden, 1995, painted corrugated iron panels on wood, 184 × 177 cm. Private Collection, Sydney

The daylight moon: Rosalie Gascoigne and Lake George
2015
Goulburn Regional Gallery
Curated by Glenn Barkley with Ivan Muñiz-Reed
Image: Rosalie Gascoigne, White Garden, 1995, painted corrugated iron panels on wood, 184 × 177 cm. Private Collection, Sydney

UOW-Sporting Hall of Fame

University of Wollongong Sporting Hall of Fame 2017
Curated by Holly Williams, with Glenn Barkley and Ivan Muniz Reed
Image: TCD

Franck Gohier: a thousand miles from everywhere
2018
Curated by Glenn Barkley
MAGNAT, Darwin
Image: Frank Gohier, The Philip 2006. Image courtesy and © the artist

Melissa Deerson, Pigeon Project, 2014. Image courtesy and © the artist

runway issue #27 Outside | 2015 Image: Melissa Deerson
Guest Editor: Glenn Barkley
Image: Pigeon Project, 2014. Image courtesy and © the artist

Alison Alder: onetoeight - Australia's first PMs 2017-2020
Co-curated by Glenn Barkley with Holly Williams
Client: MOAD
Image: onetoeight - Australia's first pms installation view Photo: TCD

The Gift: Art, Artefacts and arrivals
2017-2018
Co-curated by Holly Williams, Glenn Barkley and Ivan Muñiz-Reed
Client: MOAD
Image: Installation view, artwork Linde Ivimey

Objects in Space: Artists in the Garden
2016
Curated by Glenn Barkley
Auburn Botanic Gardens, Auburn
Installation view. Photo: TCD

Anna McMahon, Untitled # 3 from the series Soft outcomes, 2016, neon, pitcher plants, 30cm x 28cm. Photo: Anna McMahon. Image courtesy the artist.

Intrinsic properties / Inherent vice
2017
Curated by Holly Williams
Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra
Image: Anna McMahon, Untitled # 3 from the series Soft outcomes, 2016, neon, pitcher plants, 30cm x 28cm. Photo: Anna McMahon. Image courtesy the artist.

SES visitor experience

SES Visitor Experience, SES Headquarters
2017
Curated by Holly Williams
SES Headquarters, Wollongong
Image: Installation view. Photo: TCD

Photographer: Chu Chian, Images courtesy of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts

The Archipelago of Ramesh, Kuandu Biennale
2016
Curated by Glenn Barkley
Image: Photographer: Chu Chian, Images courtesy of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts

Franck Gohier's paintings and site specific new work commissioned by Justin Hemmes for Merivale's WIP (Work in Progress) Bar, 2014. Image courtesy and © the artist and Merivale. Photo: My Media Sydney

Franck Gohier at Wip bar
2014-15
Curated by Glenn Barkley
Franck Gohier's paintings and site specific new work commissioned by Justin Hemmes for Merivale's WIP (Work in Progress) Bar, 2014.
Image courtesy and © the artist and Merivale. Photo: My Media Sydney

We acknowledge the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people, the traditional custodians of the land on which we primarily work and Custodians of Country wherever our projects take place. We also acknowledge First Nations Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters, culture and community and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded