Tess Allas began working in the field of Aboriginal art and cultural practice in the early 1990s. She has curated and coordinated a number of exhibitions in Sydney venues including the Sydney Opera House and Carriageworks.
She has curated a number of international print exhibitions in Montreal, Canada, for the Montreal First Nations Festival and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection in the United States as well as many smaller exhibitions on the South Coast of NSW. In 2011 she was the recipient of an Arts Fellowship from Arts NSW for further study and investigation into the history and contemporary practice of shellworking in NSW Aboriginal communities. She has written hundreds of biographies on Aboriginal artists for the 'Storylines Project’ (www.storylines.org.au) which were published on the Design & Art Australia Online website (www.daao.org.au). Her print publications include essays for the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection (University of Virginia) as well as articles in Art Monthly, Art & Australia, Artist Profile and Artlink. With Daniel Browning she co-edited the 'Blak on Blak’ edition of Artlink (Vol 30 No 1). Tess was the commissioning editor of the 2014 Artspace monograph on artist Frances Belle Parker. With fellow artistic collaborator, Charlie Schneider, Tess showed her video work 'Andy Warhol on Aboriginal Art’ at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Adelaide as part of the 2014 Adelaide Festival’s visual art program which was the result of a two-month residency in the Rocky Mountains, Canada hosted by the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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- 2015
