The Canada Council for the Arts Aboriginal Curators Delegation to return to the 17th Sydney Biennale.

 The 2010 Aboriginal Curators Delegation will have the opportunity to visit New Zealand this year prior to the visit to the Sydney Biennale. Creative New Zealand in conversation with Kelly Langgard of Audience and Marketing Development discussed the possibility of such a visit this past summer after learning of the 2009 Aboriginal Curators Delegation to the Venice Biennale and Art Basel.
The Delegation will be visiting New Zealand’s major art galleries in as well as major Maori art centers in this years visit beginning in May 2010. The Delegation is scheduled to tour and meet with officials of the Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand) in Wellington as well as the Pataka Museum of Arts and Culture in Porirua City. The Delegation will then travel to Rotorua to visit with officials of the Te Puia Arts Centre before heading to Auckland with visits to the Auckland Art Gallery, contemporary art galleries such as Fresh Gallery Otara, Manukau Arts Collective, and Toi Maori Aotearoa.

The Delegation then travels to Sydney to take in the 17th Sydney Biennale, where they have been invited to attend all the major openings and will be participating in an International Indigenous Symposium. The Delelgation will also visit regional centres such as Casula Powerhouse, Penrith Art Gallery, Parramatta Artist Studios, and Campbellton Arts Centre as well as Sydney based Boomali Artist Run Centre and Artspace. The Delegation will co-host with the Canadian Consulate in Sydney a dinner for Canadian artists and Australian Aboriginal curators and artists who will be present at the Biennale.

Members of the 2010 Aboriginal Curators Delegation are: Candice Hopkins, Catherine Mattes, David Garneau, Michelle Lavallee, Patricia Deadman and Tania Willard.