About
Isabella Hone-Saunders is a curator, arts worker, and artist born on Kaurna Country, now living in Naarm/ Melbourne.
Currently working as Assistant Curator, Art Museums, University of Melbourne. Their curatorial and artistic work is focused on creating artistic projects that amplify socially engaged practices and support artists in taking creative risks.
These projects address representation in artistic communities and archives, with curatorial research exploring themes of habitat sharing, survival, and extraction. This research underpins a commitment to collaborative projects that consider the interplay between human, animal, and ecological well-being.
Isabella is currently undertaking a PhD in Curatorial Practice at Monash University, where their project explores hope as a generative and disciplined curatorial methodology that reorients despair and cultivates cross-disciplinary forms of solidarity.
Career highlights include serving as the Director of Seventh Gallery and holding curatorial positions at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
contact: belibomb@hotmail.com
Currently working as Assistant Curator, Art Museums, University of Melbourne. Their curatorial and artistic work is focused on creating artistic projects that amplify socially engaged practices and support artists in taking creative risks.
These projects address representation in artistic communities and archives, with curatorial research exploring themes of habitat sharing, survival, and extraction. This research underpins a commitment to collaborative projects that consider the interplay between human, animal, and ecological well-being.
Isabella is currently undertaking a PhD in Curatorial Practice at Monash University, where their project explores hope as a generative and disciplined curatorial methodology that reorients despair and cultivates cross-disciplinary forms of solidarity.
Career highlights include serving as the Director of Seventh Gallery and holding curatorial positions at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
contact: belibomb@hotmail.com
As curator and artist Isabella has worked with galleries and artist-run initiatives such as MADA Gallery, Verge Gallery, BLINDSIDE, Firstdraft, Cool Change Contemporary, FELTspace, KINGS-Ari, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, Melbourne Art Library, project8 Gallery, Watch This Space, Sister Gallery, Footscray Community Arts, Vitalstatistix, Seventh, Trocadero, West Space, Cathedral Cabinet, Incinerator Gallery and as a TCB board member.
Previously they worked at Testing Grounds as Program Manager, as Engagement Coordinator at Channels Festival International Video Art Biennial, as well as in positions at Maningrida Arts and Culture, Kaldor Public Arts Projects, Next Wave and Flinders University Art Museum.
They have interned for West Space and worked on projects with Liquid Architecture and Warlukurlangu Arts.
In 2017 IHS completed a Master of Art Curatorship at The University of Melbourne. In 2016 they completed a Graduate Diploma in Art History at The University of Adelaide.
From 2013-2015 they completed a Bachelor of Arts, with a Major in History and a double Minor in Art and Visual Culture and English from the University of Adelaide.
Previously they worked at Testing Grounds as Program Manager, as Engagement Coordinator at Channels Festival International Video Art Biennial, as well as in positions at Maningrida Arts and Culture, Kaldor Public Arts Projects, Next Wave and Flinders University Art Museum.
They have interned for West Space and worked on projects with Liquid Architecture and Warlukurlangu Arts.
In 2017 IHS completed a Master of Art Curatorship at The University of Melbourne. In 2016 they completed a Graduate Diploma in Art History at The University of Adelaide.
From 2013-2015 they completed a Bachelor of Arts, with a Major in History and a double Minor in Art and Visual Culture and English from the University of Adelaide.