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Selected Curation: project spaces, processual exhibitions, live series + symposiums 

no rock, no flower, West Space (2025)
Stranger than Fiction, Responsive artist documentation, West Space (2025)
Stranger than Fiction Symposium, West Space (2025)
TEMAMW (The Experimental Music and Movement Workshop) co-curated with John Nixon (2018)
Specific Inbetween, Australian Centre for Contemprary Art (2017)
Open Archive, Art Space + Curatorial Research, co-directed with Jared Davis (2011-2012)
Feedback Projected, Gertrude Contemporary (2012)
After Bacon with Mathew Day, National Gallery of Victoria (2012)
Action Response, curated by Hannah Mathews, Dance Massive, devised as Open Archive with Jared Davis (2012)

Selected project work: Curating documentation processes and archive initiatives

 We Called it New Music, Panel Discussion, curated by David Chesworth (2025)
Liquid Architecture Wed Archive (2025)
no rock, no flower, West Space (2025)
Stranger than Fiction, Responsive artist documentation, West Space (2025)
Stranger than Fiction Symposium, West Space (2025)
Contact High, Performance Review + Gertrude Contemporary (2023)
Specific Inbetween, Australian Centre for Contemprary Art (2017)
Shelley Lasica Website (2014-2016)
C3 Art Space website (2012-2014)
Gertrude Contemporary Documentation Archive (2008)
Action Response, curated by Hannah Mathews, Dance Massive (2012)





Helen Grogan, SPECIFIC IN-BETWEEN with Matthew Day and Nathan Gray

SEAM Symposium, Critical Path, 2013

Specific Inbetween is a score-based presentation, researching the practices of choreographer Matthew Day and artist Nathan Gray. Two specific artworks are taken as a focus: Nathan Gray’s 2012 exhibition ACTS, involving “Performances that generate sculpture and sculpture that generates performance…”(Gray); and Matthew Day’s 2013 studio research into the tensions between the dancer as both object and agent, as well as methods to activate objects and the potential for objects to be activators themselves.

For SEAM13, artist and curator Helen Grogan choreographs an unfolding, score-based format in which the collaborating artists present a series of responses to propositions relating to enactment, agency and object within their respective practices. These responses, consisting of text, video and actions, unfold as consecutive and/ or concurrent enactments. This performative structure as experiment resists a definitive thesis, instead allowing the correspondences, slippages and confusions within the artists’ approaches to become apparent through the artists’ own language and actions.
no rock, no flower (2025)
Performance installation by West Space commissioned artist Andres Iles 
Project Consultant (curation, commission process, concept development, dramaturgy, exhibition strategy)

at: West Space, Naarm, Melbourne 
w/ Andrea Iles, artist + Jo Kitto, West Space Director + Artist’s collaborators