Tammy Hulbert

Dr. Tammy Hulbert

Senior Lecturer

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About

Dr Tammy Wong Hulbert is an artist, curator and academic based in Melbourne, lecturing in the Masters of Arts (Arts Management) program in Curatorial subjects.

Tammy's art practice focuses on the multi-layered and fragmented 'hyphenated' space between cultures, influenced by her families' intergenerational connection between China and Australia.

Her recent research projects under the framework of 'curating inclusive cities' have often involved a socially engaged practice working with various urban communities, in particular addressing issues of migration, belonging and the role of art in encouraging an inclusive city.

Tammy also worked with the contemporary Chinese art community, Beijing, China in the early 2000s. This experience had a profound impact on her own outlook towards contemporary art practices encouraging an interest in art practices that are more open ended and expressive of social concerns. She was also a curator and arts manager in Sydney for Newcontemporaries Gallery and The City of Sydney. In 2012 she completed her PhD researching 'The City as a Curated Space' at RMIT University, investigating how the urban condition has an impact on the way artists and urban communities are able to engage with these environments, offering an alternative model of exhibition to the traditional museology.

Tammy has taught in fine arts, art history, arts and cultural management and curatorial subjects in Melbourne and Hong Kong at RMIT University and the University of Melbourne.

For further information, visit (http://www.tammywonghulbert.com/)

Industry experience:
Selected Exhibitions / Public Art Projects:

Dancing Place: Corhanwarrabul, Mt Dandenong, Vic, curated by Dr Gretel Taylor, November, 2020
Hidden Rookwood Sculpture Walk, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, New South Wales, curated by Dr Kath Fries, September 2019
Force of Nature, curated by Gretel Taylor, Yarra Ranges Museum, September 2019
Waipo (Grandmothers), The Chinese Museum, curated by Joyce Agee & Nicholas Chin, April 2018
Transient Home City, Hyphenated, The Substation, Newport, curated by Phuong Ngo and Tammy Wong Hulbert, March-April 2018
Anonymous Sojourners in the Australian Bush, St Andrews, Victoria, Living in the Landscape Public Art Incubator, Nillumbik Shire, December 2017
Belonging & the Transient Home, collaborative public art project with the Vicseg Iranian Asylum Seekers Social Health Group, Broadmeadows, 3 April 2016
Flavours of Glenroy, Post Office Place, Glenroy, Victoria, collaborative public art project, May 2014
Selected Curated Exhibitions:

Skilled Hand, Shared Culture, RMIT Gallery, October 2020
The new (ab)normal, RMIT Gallery, co-curated by Helen Rayment, June 2020
Far Flung: Connecting Intergenerational Families, Maningham Art Gallery, City of Manningham, Creative Victoria, November, 2019
Ancient Now, Garland Magazine, China Issue, on-line exhibition, June, 2019
Hyphenated, co-curated by Phuong Ngo, The Substation, March-April, 2018
HK ID, Chinese Museum, Melbourne, curator and artist, October - December 2013
Lumens Festival: Curating the Ancient City, co-curated by Geoff Hogg, Shane Hulbert and Clare Leporati, Ping Jiang Road Canals, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, May, 2012
Gateway: Melbourne 2011, Chinese Museum, Melbourne, curator and artist, April 2011
Meridians: Shanghai 2010, East China Normal University Gallery, Shanghai, China, curator, 2010.

Industry Positions:
Art Lecturing:
RMIT University, Lecturer, Masters of Arts (Arts Management) & International Co-ordinator, School of Art, Melbourne, 2017+
RMIT University, Art in Global Cities and Studio Critique, Lecturer, School of Art, Hong Kong, January, 2017
RMIT University, Art History and Theory 2 Lecturer, Art in Global Cities, School of Art, Hong Kong, July, 2016
RMIT University, Art History and Theory 1 & 2, Tutor and Internship, Lecturer, School of Art, Melbourne, Vic, 2014-6
University of Melbourne, Arts and Cultural Management in Asia, Lecturer, 2013-7
University of Melbourne, Contemporary Art Tutor and Lecturer, School of Culture and Communication, Melbourne, Vic, 2014-5
RMIT University, Art in Global Cities Tutor, School of Art, Melbourne, Vic, 2014-6

Art Research Positions:
RMIT University, Research Fellow, A Skilled Hand and Cultivated mind: A guide to the Architecture and Art of RMIT University, Vice-Chancellors Office, Melb, Vic, 2012
RMIT University, Research Assistant, School of Art, Melbourne, Vic, 2011-13
RMIT University, Research Assistant, Design Research Institute, Intervention through Art, Melbourne, Vic, 2009-10

Art Curating & Exhibition Management:
Chinese Museum, Exhibitions Co-ordinator, Melbourne, Vic, 2012
Customs House, Exhibitions Co-ordinator, City of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2004-8
Newcontemporaries Gallery, Curator, Sydney, NSW, 2002-4
Art Publishing Positions
East West Arts, Managing Editor, Sydney, NSW, 2004
Australian Art Review, Deputy Editor, Sydney, NSW, 2002-4
Chinese-art.com, Marketing Manager, New Art Media, Beijing, China, 2000-2

Art Panels and Consultations:
NETS Victoria, Board Member, 2021+
Creative Victoria, Chair of the Arts Panel, 2019
Creative Victoria, Creators Fund Assessor, 2017
City of Melbourne's Grants & Sponsorship Advisory panel, 2016
City of Melbourne's Public Art Advisory Panel, 2011-2012
City of Moreland's Arts & Culture Strategy, consulting advisor, 2011-16
Many Moons Group, Chair 2012-13, member 2009-13
Quong Tart Centenary Commemorative Committee, member, 2004

Awards:
Australian Council of Universities and Design Schools (ACUADS) Innovation in Research Award
Award date: 2021
Recipients: Tammy Hulbert

RMIT University, School of Art, Teaching Award
Award date: 2020
Recipients: Tammy Hulbert

2008:
Australian Post Graduate Award (APA) Scholarship, 2008-11
Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Top Up Scholarship, 2008-11

2006:
Gene & Brian Sherman Art Administration Scholarship, UNSWAD, 2006

Media

Supervisor projects

  • Photographing Disappearing: Photographic Portrait, the Aftermath of Conflict and the Vanishing Value of Hong Kong, with respect to the Anti National Security Law movement.
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • From The River Delta: A Journey to Understand my Bangladeshi-Australian Identity through an Interdisciplinary Art Practice by Employing Auto-Ethnography Method.
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Examining Chinese-Australian bi-cultural identity in relation to cultural bereavement through video essays informed by autoethnography and critical realism
  • 10 Jan 2024
  • Perfection in Imperfection: "Incomplete Beauty" in Contemporary Jewellery
  • 26 Jul 2023
  • Mapping Curatorial Discourse: Positioning Southeast Asian Women Photographers in Australian Galleries
  • 7 Oct 2022
  • The metaphoric potential of Kintsugi within contemporary objects.
  • 3 Mar 2022
  • Silent Conversation: Prompting the Share Material Experience through the Digital Narrative Objects
  • 5 Sep 2020
  • Prosperity Portals
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Crossing the Equator: Reconsidering a New Cross-cultural Aesthetic Paradigm of Screen-based Immersion of Landscape (Mountains and Water)
  • 2 Mar 2020
  • Contemporising Indian Picture Recitation Through Performance
  • 20 Nov 2019

Teaching interests

Supervisor interest areas:
Curating contemporary art, urbanisation and art, arts management, art in public space practice and management, ceramics and installation art, contemporary Asian art and diasporic art

Supervisor projects:
Contemporary Southeast Asian women artists: Curatorial dialogue and curation in Australia - Masters
Contemporizing Picture Recitation for urban audiences - PhD
Silent Conversations: to create a dialogue between audience and crafted jewellery through enamels and metalwork - Masters
Change of Perceptions: Online-Only Asian Art Auctions - PhD

Programs
MC280 - Master of Arts (Arts Management)
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/art/fine-and-visual-art)

Research interests

Tammy's research interests are predominantly focused around 'Curating Inclusive Cities' researching the curation and development of relational art projects with diverse immigrant community, often marginalised in globalising cities. Her research practice stems from her industry experience of working as both an artist and curator, with a particular interest in caring for the voices of the diverse diaspora communities.

Research keywords:
Contemporary Art, Curating, Arts Management, Urban Art Practices, Site specific Practices, Socially engaged Art, Chinese and Asian Contemporary Art, Diaspora, Migration
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.