AMELIA SAWARD
  • Projects & Artwork
    • Curatorial >
      • Hysterical Legacies
      • Mass Isolation Australia, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
      • Our Shadows
      • Amplified, Redefined: Protests for Change
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      • Recent Artworks
      • Publication Artwork
    • Exhibitions >
      • Recent Exhibitions
      • Many of Us, IWD 4.0, Platform Arts
      • Away With the Fairies, Maggies Art Space
      • Dear Diary (Messages from the future), Love Letters to Feminisms, Trocadero Art Space
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EDUCATION

2017-2020 Master of Art Curatorship, University of Melbourne
2013-2017 Bachelor of Arts (Hons), University of Melbourne 
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CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2025 Curator and lead artist, Hysterical Legacies, Queen Victoria Women's Centre, Naarm/ Melbourne
2020-21 Co-curator, Mass Isolation Australia project, Ballarat International Foto Biennale 
2018 Co-curator, Our Shadows exhibition, Noir Darkroom, Coburg 
2018 Co-curator, Amplified, Redefined: Protests for Change exhibition, George Paton Gallery, Parkville
 

WRITING ​

2024 Artist Feature: Ruby Smedley, Ramona Magazine
2023 The Participation Falsity, Jacaranda Journal, 10.1
2023 The Celebrity Docos Sparking an Important Conversation About Chronic Illness, ABC Everyday
2023 'Trust Your Instincts.' What I've Learnt From Chronic Illness and Seeking Care, Hireup
2022 ‘Hysteria’ is Not Dead: The Continuing Dismissal of Women and Non-binary people by a Sexist Medical System, Bramble Journal
2022 On Doing Your Own Thing, Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA) Lead Blog
2022 The Passing of Clouds, Ramona Magazine
2020 Mass Isolation Australia: Capturing a Physically Distanced Nation, Curatorial Essay (co-written with Shaohui Kwok), Mass Isolation Australia Project, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
2020 Sanctuary (home), F*EMS Zine (now Gems Zine), Issue 17
2018 Helen Ogilvie: Australian Modernism and a Changing Sense of Place, Collections Magazine, University of Melbourne, issue 23
2018 Resisting Stereotypes: Women and Contemporary Middle Eastern Photo Media Art, .jpg Journal
2017 Nineteenth-century Australian Women Artists: From Amateurism to Professionalisation, honours thesis University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
2016 Period Drama, Farrago Magazine
2016 The Art World Has a Gender Problem, Judy’s Punch Magazine
2015 Lessons in Morality in a Changing World: Allegories of Virtue and Vice in the Baillieu Library Print Collection, Collections Magazine

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Away with the Fairies, presented with the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Maggie's Art Space, Collingwood ​

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025-26 Summer Show, Kyneton Ridge Art Space
​2024 Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy 

2023-24 Women Now, Queen Victoria Women's Centre (QVWC), Melbourne
​2023-24 Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda
2023 Small, Unassigned Gallery, Brunswick 
2023 Show and Tell, Melbourne & Victorian Artists (MAVA), Melbourne Flower and Garden Show, Royal Exhibition Building
2023 IWD 4.0, Platform Arts, The Store, Abbotsford Convent

2022-23 Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda
2022 Nature (Gems Zine Issue 22), Fiftyfive Bar, Melbourne CBD
2019 Small Works exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy 
2019 Love Letters to Feminisms, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray 
2018 Tastings Takeover, UMSU Creative Arts Department 
2017 Small Works exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy 
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PUBLICATION ARTWORKS

2023 Cultures of Womanhood, The Suburban Review, Issue 31
2022 En Plein Air 1 & 2, Nature, Gems Zine Issue 22
2020 Sanctuary (home), F*EMS Zine (now Gems Zine), volume 17 
2019 Featured illustrator, Drawn Volume.3, Capsules Books 
2017 Graphics contributor, Farrago Magazine 
2017 Illustrator, .jpg Journal 
2016-17 Graphics Contributor, Judy's Punch Magazine 
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2025 -present Partnerships Coordinator, RISING 
2025 present Grants & Development Coordinator, 
Melbourne Art Library  
2024-25 Administration and Communications Officer, Melbourne Art Library  
2022-24 Development Coordinator, Melbourne Fringe 
2023-24 Communications Assistant and Support worker, Independent Disability Activist

2017-20 Library Assistant, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne ​

AWARDS & GRANTS

2025 Arts Grant, City of Melbourne
2018 SSAF Grant, University of Melbourne 
2017 Miegunyah Project Award, Ian Potter museum of Art
2017 Graduate Overseas Travel Grant, University of Melbourne  
​2015 Leaders in Communities Award, University of Melbourne
© Amelia Saward, 2025
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land where I live, work and create, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation and pay respect to their Elders past and present. 
  • Projects & Artwork
    • Curatorial >
      • Hysterical Legacies
      • Mass Isolation Australia, Ballarat International Foto Biennale
      • Our Shadows
      • Amplified, Redefined: Protests for Change
    • Artwork >
      • Recent Artworks
      • Publication Artwork
    • Exhibitions >
      • Recent Exhibitions
      • Many of Us, IWD 4.0, Platform Arts
      • Away With the Fairies, Maggies Art Space
      • Dear Diary (Messages from the future), Love Letters to Feminisms, Trocadero Art Space
  • About
  • CV
  • Contact