Announcing our CNZ Te Manu Ka Tau visiting curator: Kimberley Moulton
We are pleased to announce Kimberley Moulton as one of our Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau visiting curators for 2026.
Kimberley will arrive in August spending time in Tāmaki Makaurau hosted at Artspace Aotearoa and travel to Te Whanganui-a-Tara, hosted by the Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery as part of the symposium, AGENCY: A curatorial intensive in three questions How do I learn? How do I act? How do I imagine? Join Kimberley for her public lecture How do I learn? A lecture by Kimberley Moulton as part of AGENCY.
Join Kimberley for her public Question time lecture on Wednesday 19 August, at Elam School of Fine Arts, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland,
Dr Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman from Australia and a curator and writer. Kimberley is a respected international curator working across modern and contemporary art and historical collections. Leading research and curatorial practice in the field of connecting knowledge, histories and futures at the intersection of historical collections and contemporary art, her work centres regenerative re-worlding of art histories and ecological, cultural and relational Indigenous and Global Majority creative practices. She is currently Senior Curator Exhibitions at RISING, the Melbourne international arts festival and most recently held tenure as the Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art Tate London (2023-2026). She has a PhD in curatorial practice from Monash University Melbourne and in 2023 was appointed Curator Emeritus, First Peoples at Museums Victoria.
Working with artists to amplify underrepresented art histories, her practice foregrounds connecting communities to collections, through rematriation and re-spiriting collections and place beyond the colonial past. This work has positioned Moulton at the forefront of local and international curatorial and writing praxis which supports contemporary art across multidiscipline areas to re-frame a new dialogue between object, place and community. Kimberley’s research interests include Indigenous rematriation, Ancestral belongings and restitution, Indigenous space-time cosmologies and embodied knowledge in contemporary art practice.
Along with her curatorial work Kimberley is currently Deputy Chair of the Board for Australia’s leading regional art gallery, Shepparton Art Museum and Director of the board for the Adam Briggs Foundation.
Artspace Aotearoa is pleased to deliver the Creative New Zealand Te Manu Ka Tau programme for the visual arts. This essential programme aims to establish an ongoing stake in our artists amongst leading international voices, to generate enduring conversation, and enable concrete engagements and collaborations for our artists and arts organisations in the future.
This kaupapa is presented with Creative New Zealand Toi o Aotearoa and association with Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Elam School of Fine Arts, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, and supported by Tony Kerridge and Micheal Do.