Josephine Mead

Josephine Mead is a visual artist, writer and curator based on Wurundjeri woi wurrung & Dja Dja wurrung Country (Australia). She works through photography, sculpture, installation and writing to explore personal notions of support. Her recent work has positioned female family members as support-structures, considered the body as a site of discursive practice, explored notions of deep listening, and examined the temporal and sonic nature of writing and photography. She is interested in examining how curation can be an act of care.

She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. In 2018 she undertook the Arquetopia Foundation Residency (Puebla, Mexico), the Kings Emerging Writer’s Program, the Macfarlane Fund Residency (Kyneton, Victoria) and was published by Art+Australia and un projects. In 2019 she was awarded a Career Development Grant through the Australia Council for the Arts to undertake the Tasarim Bakkali TAB Residency (Istanbul, Turkey) and the Córtex Frontal Residency (Arraiolos, Portugal). In 2020 she commenced the ZK/U Residency at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin, Germany). She was an inaugural Room to Create studio artist at Collingwood Yards (2020-21), was Chair of Artistic Directors for Blindside Gallery (2020-22), is co-founder of Co- Publishing alongside Christine McFetridge, and was a founding Artistic Director of MILK Gallery. In 2022 she participated in the Writing in the Expanded Field program through the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).