Grace Herbert

Hailing from from Lutriwita/ Tasmania at the southern end of so-called Australia, Grace is a curator, facilitator, writer and artist. Her curatorial practice has grown out of years working with independent, community and DIY arts organisations where she wrangled many ambitious projects on shoe-string budgets.

More recently Grace has been working as Senior Curator for Melbourne’s RISING Festival. Here she has curated a range of major projects and helped to shape the growing and changing face of the organisation since it’s inception in 2019.

Curatorial Projects

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Jeremy Deller

RISING Festival 2024
24 Hour Rock Show
Acid Brass
In the future, everyone will be cancelled for 15 minutes

Night Trade

RISING Festival 2024
Sip and Paint
Interactive Program

Night Trade

RISING Festival 2023
St Paul’s Cathedral Square, Melbourne
Artists: Poncili Creación

Anthem

RISING Festival 2023
St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne
Artist: Wu Tsang
Video portrait of Beverley Glenn Copeland

Ghetto Biennale

RISING Festival 2023
Chapter House, Melbourne
Artist: Atiz Resistanz

Guardian Global coverage of show

Golden Square

RISING Festival 2022
Golden Square Carpark, Chinatown Melbourne
Artists: Su Hu-Yui, Guan Xiao, Lu Yang,
Jason Phu, Scotty So, Paul Yore, Tabita Rezaire,
Atong Atem
Exhibition Details

Golden Square

RISING Festival 2021
Golden Square Carpark, Chinatown Melbourne
Artists: Reko Rennie, Cao Fei, Lucy Bleach, Jason Phu,
Agnieszka Polska, Lu Yang, Parallel Park, Tabita Rezaire, Patty Chang

The Pink Palace

Presented as part of Dark Mofo Festival 2018
Samuel Mountford, Tess Little, Dexter Rosengrave and Maria Blackwell
in collaboration with four anonymous inmates of Risdon Prison

The Art Newspaper coverage of show

Constance

Artist-Run Initiative
Chair of the Board/ Programming Committee 2015 - 2019
Nipaluna/ Hobart

HOBIENNALE

National festival of Artist-Led Initiatives
Co-Founder and Creative Director
Nipaluna/ Hobart