Denise Thwaites (curator)

About the artist

Denise Thwaites is a Kamberri-based arts curator, writer and researcher of Uyghur and British descent, whose transdisciplinary, collaborative practice explores the hybrid materials of networked life. She has co-curated exhibition projects for Artspace Ideas Platform (Sydney), Next Wave Festival (Melbourne), Firstdraft (Sydney), This Is Not Art Festival (Newcastle), New Beginnings Refugee Culture and Arts Festival (Sydney) and Haig Park Experiments (Canberra). She has co-curated live art events for international programs such as NOVA_XX Biennial at Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (Paris, FR) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, NL). Her writing on art, technology and radical economies has been published in Kunstlicht, Runway Journal of Experimental Art, Performance Paradigm, Artlink, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Cordite Poetry Review and Meniscus Literary Journal and in publications by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Newcastle Art Gallery and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. Since 2023, Denise has been a Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts at University of Canberra, having previously worked at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, National Art School Sydney and University of New South Wales.