University of Tasmania, Australia

Mr Malcom Bywaters

Gallery Director

Masters

Contact Details

Contact Campus	Inveresk Campus
Telephone	+61 3 6324 4410
Email	Malcom.Bywaters@utas.edu.au

General Responsibilities

Malcom has a Diploma of Fine Art, Ballarat University, a Graduate Diploma, Victorian College of the Arts and a Masters Degree from RMIT. He is presently studying for a PhD researching the house and home in contemporary Australian visual culture.

Malcom's wide and varied knowledge of art enables his University of Tasmania Academy Gallery / NEW Gallery  activities to encompass a diverse understanding of contemporary art practice.

Teaching Responsibilities

• Gallery Director
• Graduate Research Co-ordinator
• Post-graduate Co-ordindator

Achievements

In 2004 the Academy Gallery was awarded the Vice Chancellors University of Tasmania inaugural Community Engagement Award for developing an outstanding program of cultural activity for Northern Tasmania.

For the past twenty years Malcom Bywaters has worked as an exhibition curator and gallery director. Malcom has curated over fifty exhibitions for venues such as the  Westspace, Platform, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Monash Museum of Art, Geelong Art Gallery in  Victoria and the Academy Gallery, Plimsoll Gallery,  Devonport Regional Art Gallery, Burnie Regional Art Gallery and Arts Tasmania Art Gallery, Tasmania.

At the Academy Gallery Bywaters has facilitated some 100 plus student and professional artists exhibitions including the Home Sweet Home - National Gallery of Australia (2004), Three Colours Gordon Bennet and Peter Robinson - Heide Museum of Modern Art (2005), Pooaraar The Great Forgetting - National Museum of Australia (2007) and Stage fright: the Art of Theatre - National Gallery of Australia (2007) and Sidney Nolan: The Gallipoli Series (2011).

Selected Works

Time Out Exhibition

Biggles