Polly Dance
photo: Rosina Possingham
Polly Dance is an Adelaide-based curator and art writer. Her practice is concerned with modes of communication, site-specificity, truth-telling, and materiality, with a particular interest in the archive and local history. Polly graduated with Masters in Curatorial and Museum Studies at University of Adelaide in 2012. Completing a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours), specialising in History and Theory at UniSA in 2009.
Notable curatorial pursuits include Standing on Ceremony (2021-22) at Adelaide Town Hall, People, Celebrating People (2018-19) at City Library, PAINTFACE (2014) a series of site-responsive exhibitions at Constance ARI and other participating venues, Unkept (2014) a curatorial mentorship at Contemporary Art Tasmania, The Writing Project (2012-13) at FELTspace, CACSA@70 Archives: Gathered Histories (2012) at Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia. Polly has been published as a visual art review writer in Real Time, Artlink, dB Magazine, and as Editor of PLATFORM Youth Arts & Culture Magazine (2014), Vitamin – The Redux (2010) and Point Blank (2008).
Since 2017 she has worked as Curator at the City of Adelaide, was 2015 Emerging Curator at City of Adelaide, Youth Arts Officer for the City of Hobart (2014), Director of Constance ARI, Hobart (2013), and a Co-Director of FELTspace (2011-13).
Polly Dance writes about Anna Horne in Neoteric 2022.