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Jo Darbyshire and Mat Trinca

Jo Darbyshire and Mat Trinca worked together on The Gay Museum, an exhibition held at the Western Australian Museum from January 22 - May 30, 2003.

Jo Darbyshire is a Western Australian visual artist. For this exhibition she spent eighteen months as Artist-in-Residence at the Western Australian Museum and created The Gay Museum as part of her Masters of Creative Arts with the Research Institute for Cultural Heritage at Curtin University. She teaches painting part-time at the School of Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University and exhibits regularly with Gallery East. She can be contacted by email: j.darbyshire@ecu.edu.au
Jo's dissertation, which discusses the making of the Gay Museum can be accessed at: http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20040910.124244/

Mat Trinca was Curator in the History Department, Western Australian Museum, at the time of this exhibition, and is now Program Director at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT. His research interests are in Australian cultural history, environmental history and museology. Mat can be contacted by email: m.trinca@nma.gov.au

Papers in the omj:

» The Artist as Curator: Between Formalism and Context