Visual Art - Emma Mayall
"It is an incredible privilege to be a judge for the Cancer Council's Visual Arts Awards. The Awards offer the broader community the opportunity to express themselves creatively, highlighting their own personal experiences with cancer, whilst also acknowledging the important work that the Cancer Council do."
Emma Mayall is currently Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria. Emma curated the exhibition Contemporary Encounters: Selected works from the Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, and has worked on numerous contemporary art projects at the NGV including Draw the Line: The Architecture of LAB, the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, and the 2012 Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award.
From 2006 to 2008 Emma was Assistant Curator at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image where she worked on such exhibitions as 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, Eyes Lies and Illusions, Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965 - 2005, Pixar: 20 Years of Animation, and Replay: Christian Marclay.
She has a Bachelor of Arts degree (History and Visual Arts) from Monash University, and a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne.
