Curator
Una has a simple curatorial philosophy: exhibitions are systems for storytelling and (for her) the story needs layers and history. With her foundational experience in commercial galleries and working studio settings, the [picture/object] has a primary value and potential. Una has no experience nor aspiration to be an in-house / institutional curator.
There have been others, but these mattered most:
Goobalathaldin
Dick Roughsey & Friends
2022 16 Albermarle Street Gallery
This exhibition celebrates Goobalathaldin’s work across styles and temporalities which were the hallmark of his transcultural practice. It also features works by his peers and mentors - elder brother Lindsay Roughsey, lesser-known members of the Wellesley Island art movement and artists Percy ‘bush-pilot’ Trezise and Ray Crooke.
Inside Elands
2021 The Lockup
Hidden in the hinterlands of NSW on the Great Dividing Range, Elands has a unique microhistory, coloured by the boho-counter-culture community from the late 1960s into the ‘90s. Focusing on this recent social history and its intergenerational perspectives, INSIDE ELANDS includes cross-tech-collaborations and remote fieldwork experiments alongside historical art works from the local archive.
Black White & Restive:
Cross-cultural initiatives in Australian contemporary art
2016 Newcastle Art Gallery
BLACK WHITE & RESTIVE examines the artistic exchanges and at times uneasy tensions of cross-cultural art practice between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists. Celebrating the work of sixty-seven artists displayed over all floors of the gallery, exhibition curator Dr Una Rey has brought together a diversity of complex relationships from direct collaborations to shared, sometimes contested, stylistic and conceptual influences.
