Alison Kubler is currently employed as Curator (Public Programs) at QUT Art Museum and works freelance as a curator and writer. She graduated from the University of Queensland with a Double Major in Art History and has a Masters in Post-war and Contemporary Art History from Manchester University, England. In 1995 she worked for the British Council on the 1995 Venice Biennale exhibition, General Release .From 1998 to 2003 she was Curator (Public Programs) at Gold Coast City Art Gallery. Curatorial projects have included the Australia Council funded sebastian: contemporary realist painting , Teamwork: Recent works by Donna Marcus , Moving Cities : Jay Younger, Donna Marcus, Ian Howard and Milan Milojevic at the Australian Embassy in Berlin and Our Place in the Pacific: Recent work by Adam Cullen , a travelling exhibition.She co-curated Fathoming: Contemporary Australian Sculpture: A Regional Galleries Association of Queensland Travelling Exhibition funded by Visions of Australia. In conjunction she mounted a 2-day symposium Fathoming Contemporary Sculpture: A Gold Coast City Art Gallery Symposium that was supported by Arts Queensland. In 2003 she guest curated Fresh Cut 2003 at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, and co-curated The Brisbane Line: Queensland Women artists of the Early Twentieth Century for QUT Art Museum. In 2004 she curated SAVVY: New Australian Art for QUT Art Museum, and in 2005 a solo exhibition, Fuel, of the work of new media artist Mike Stubbs for The Block at QUT Creative Industries.In 2003 she worked in a freelance capacity on an exhibition at the prestigious Association Viafarini and CareOf contemporary art spaces in Milan, Italy. Quiet Collision: Current Practice/Australian Style was a professional development project initiated by and featuring 6 contemporary Australian artists and international Milan based writer/curator Roberto Pinto, and was supported by The Australia Council. In February 2004, Alison worked as a curatorial consultant with Brisbane City Council on the public art component for Brisbane Square, as part of BCC's Water Art Strategy, in consultation with architectural firm Denton Corker Marshall.Freelance writing projects include a monograph on the work of Donna Marcus: 99% Pure Aluminium published in 2003 by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane which received funding from Arts Queensland, as well as writing for numerous journals and exhibition catalogues. |