Join us at a special event for emerging and early-career curators as part of Art Up Late during Sydney Festival 2025. This evening offers a rare opportunity to discuss curatorial practices and hear from MAG&M’s curators about their approach to programming. 

Engage in a casual gathering with peers, satisfy curiosities in an Ask Me Anything session, and reflect on the state of contemporary curating. Don't miss this chance to connect with fellow curators in a harbour-side setting.

Enjoy refreshments with a glass from our wine sponsor, Little Ripples.

Guest Speakers

Amber Boardman
Artist

Amber Boardman is an American-born, Sydney-based artist whose work explores the influence of the internet on crowds and social norms. Boardman's exhibitions of large, narrative and interconnected paintings serve as anthropological visual essays that explore facets of the internet from different angles.  

Amber Boardman’s 20+year history of exhibiting her work internationally includes shows in arts institutions in New York, London, Rome, Amsterdam, Miami, Atlanta, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Notable exhibitions include BAM's Next Wave Festival in New York, Postmasters Gallery in Rome, and the Archibald, Mosman and Geelong Prizes in Australia.

Her works are held in private and public collections including Artbank and The City of Sydney in Australia, and the High Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the University of Kentucky Art Museum in America. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, Artist Profile, Art Collector, and ArtMaze Magazine.

Her work is represented by Chalk Horse in Sydney, Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne, and Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta.

Visit Amber's website

Daniel Press
Sculptor / Curator

Daniel was the 2024 recipient of the Northern Beaches Emerging Curator Program. 

In his sculptural practice, Daniel uses the copying potential of digital fabrication and lost-wax casting processes to destabilise the tradition of monument making. His unstable monuments ghost the residues of colonial powers in public spaces and the authorities that govern and preserve them.

His curatorial practice uncovers emerging trends in Australian contemporary art. Press is a co-founder and board member of DRAW Space Gallery. He also co-founded the cross-university HDR studio crit program.

Visit Daniel's website

Art Up Late Series

Drop in to enjoy a welcome drink and walking conversation through The Water Understands exhibition at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, supported by Sydney Festival.

Exhibition: The Water Understands

This event is on during The Water Understands exhibition, a contemporary interrogation of water as a life-giving element, whose importance to humanity has been examined from multiple angles for thousands of years. Artists make work about it, scientists experiment with it, and poets write about it.