About
I worked for twenty years with artists and the institutions that hold them: university galleries in New York and Virginia, art schools in Singapore, the United States and Australia, most recently as Head of Studies at the National Art School in Sydney.
In 2016, after Prince Rogers Nelson died, I began a museum that starts from the other side: the people whose lives an artist's work has shaped. The People's Museum for Prince has had two seasons in Minneapolis, in 2018 and 2026, the second with seventy-five contributors from nine countries, and now lives year-round as the Living Archive. It was the practice component of my PhD and it remains the center of my work.
I trained in film at the Victorian College of the Arts and made short films in the 1990s. Dearly Beloved is my return to filmmaking.
Education
- 2019PhD, Curatorial and Museum Studies, University of Melbourne
- 2006MA, Arts Administration and Policy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 1996Graduate Diploma, Film and Television, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
- 1992BA, English Literature and Fine Arts, University of Melbourne
The People's Museum for Prince
- 2026Roberts Gallery, Capri Theater and ColorWheel Gallery, Minneapolis
- 2019Pop-up at Moon Palace Books, Minneapolis
- 2018Solar Arts Building, Minneapolis
Arts leadership
- 2022–25Head of Studies, National Art School, Sydney
- 2019–21Curator and Director, Founder's Gallery, George Mason University, Virginia
- 2009–13Director, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York
- Taught arts management at Columbia University, Purchase College SUNY, and LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Writing and talks
- 2026“There Will Be No Death”: Prince's Afterlife in Minneapolis, with Kristen Zschomler. Chapter 9 of Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince, ed. Daphne A. Brooks, Duke University Press
- 2026Chapter on Paisley Park as house museum, in History Displaced, Routledge, forthcoming
- 2026Pop Conference, Los Angeles. The People's Museum: Living Counter-Archive as Joyful Resistance to Legacy Crystallization
- 2026Dance On! International Studies for Prince Symposium, University of Minnesota. Take Me With U: Houses of Prince as Spatial Biography, with Kristen Zschomler, and the research exhibition The Houses of Prince
- 2019Pop Conference, Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle. The People's Museum for Prince: A Curatorial Response to the Mourning of Prince
- 2018Prince from Minneapolis Symposium, University of Minnesota. Communitas Interrupted: The Paisley Park Fence as a Site of Mourning
Press
- 2026NHK World, July
- 2026ABC Radio Melbourne, July
- 2026KARE 11, NBC Minneapolis, June
- 2026Minnesota Star Tribune, June
- 2026The Guardian, “Prince's death made me upend my life and move to his home town,” May
- Full press list