Simon Maidment

When the Journey becomes the Destination

Fea­ture arti­cle for Pub­lic Art Review, Spring/Summer 2010 issue, Ed. Anne Lox­ley. Excerpt only. Con­tinue reading…

Dying in Spite of the Miraculous

Co-curated exhi­bi­tion at Gertrude Con­tem­po­rary as part of the 2010 Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Arts Festival.

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Kindness & Criticality

Text for Col­umn 4, pub­lished by Art­space Syd­ney (Ed. Reuben Kee­han). A response to Spaces of Art, 2009 inter­na­tional con­fer­ence held at the Art Gallery of NSW & Art­space, Sydney.

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Gordon Matta-Clark: Open House essay

Essay to accom­pany exhi­bi­tion I curated, appear­ing in the Visual Arts Pro­gram Crit­i­cal Reader accom­pa­ny­ing the Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val 2009.

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Gordon Matta-Clark: Open House exhibition

Curated an exhi­bi­tion of film works of Gor­don Matta-Clark at Melbourne’s Arts Cen­tre, 10–24 Octo­ber 2009, as part of Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val 2009.

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Matt Stokes: Long After Tonight

Curated an exhi­bi­tion of work by Matt Stokes (New­cas­tle, UK), at the Malt­house The­atres, as part of the Mel­bourne Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val 2009.

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Interview with Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni

Mel­bourne Fes­ti­val Visual Arts Coor­di­na­tor Simon Maid­ment met with French artists Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni on the occa­sion of their first Aus­tralian exhi­bi­tion Les choses qui tombent [’some­times they fall’] accom­pa­nied by Chris Sharp, vis­it­ing US born, Paris based, cura­tor and critic under­tak­ing a cura­to­r­ial res­i­dency at Gertrude Con­tem­po­rary Art Spaces.

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Slave to the rhythm

Simon Maid­ment and Mark Feary talk with Danius Kesminas

Pub­lished in cac inter­viu, issue 9–10 / 2008 spring – summer.

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The Devolution Project — catalogue essay

Cat­a­logue essay to accom­pany exhi­bi­tions at West Space, Mel­bourne from 25 July – 2 August 2008 and Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Queens­land Gallery, Toowoomba from 8 August — 28 August 2008.

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The Devolution Project exhibition

Exhibit­ing Artists: Sherry McLane Ale­jos, Belle Bassin, Alas­dair McLuckie, Jon Orth, Natalie Ryan, Kel­lie Wells

A West Space Project curated by Mark Feary & Simon Maidment

25 July – 2 August 2008, West Space, Melbourne. 8 August — 28 August at Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Queens­land Gallery, Toowoomba

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