Curatorial Mentorship 2025–2026
Tash Bradley-Cross is an emerging artist, curator and arts worker based in Nipaluna/Hobart. Her work explores psychogeography and urbanism through immersive spatial installations using movement, play, performance, photography, video and sound. Prompted by feelings of alienation and the increasing privatisation of the urban environment, and with a strong social conscience, her curatorial projects question how public and private space, and architectural design, shape the body, the individual and a sense of place.
Tash has worked across the public, private and not for profit sector including in International Development, project management and arts and design. These experiences coalesce to bring together her curatorial interests into power, structures and human geography. Tash holds a BFA (First Class Honours, University Medal) from UTAS and in 2024 received the Wayne Brookes Visual Arts Prize and Rosamond McCulloch Paris Studio Residency. She has exhibited nationally and curated shows in both commercial and independent spaces.
This CAT mentorship has given me the exciting opportunity to work with other artists and professionals to develop an exhibition that explores how projects of gentrification and urban renewal can become a catalyst for change and artistic intervention. I’m interested in how landscape architecture and urban design provoke behavioural responses that can positively improve experience, induce pleasure and strengthen social and civic engagement. I am also interested in exploring approaches that stem from Situationism and other counterculture movements that seek to subvert systems of power and shift how we think about place.
There’s growing momentum in major cities around public participatory works as a way to build and strengthen connection to place. I’m interested in how these ideas—and creative interventions by local and international practitioners—can contribute to speculative placemaking by activating space in more engaging ways.
