University of Tasmania, Australia

Malcom Bywaters was appointed as the Academy Gallery Director in 2002.

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).

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. 

 



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 Ph.D researching the home and hearth in contemporary Australian visual culture.

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

Staff

The Academy Gallery is managed by a full time Director. The Director's position is a School of Visual and Performing Arts academic position. The Academy Gallery Director reports on the coordination, operation and management of the Academy Gallery to the Head of School, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania. The Academy Gallery employs various project contract exhibition curators and sessional staff as required.

Selected Curatorial / Coordination Undertakings

• River effects: The Waterways of Tasmania.  Raymond Arnold, Julie Gough, Leigh Hobba, Donald Lawrence, Geoff Parr, Kevin Perkins, Megan Perkins, Troy Ruffels, Marie Sierra, David Stephenson, Travis Tiddy, Martin Walch and Catherine Woo.  Exhibition curators: Malcom Bywaters & Professor Noel Frankham.
  
• Orange Skin: Wayne Hudson, with catalogue essay by Ashley Crawford, national recognised cultural critic, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania (2009)
• Strata: Anne Morrison, with catalogue essay by Peter Timms, national recognised visual arts critic, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania (2009)
• Great Southern Land: Brendan Lee with catalogue essay by Juliana Engberg, Director, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2009)
• Projected Words: Stephen Haley with catalogue essay by Kellay Gellatly, Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria. (2008)
• The Green Zone. Included the artwork of Margaret Baguley, Patrick Hall, Bill Henson, Greer Honeywill, Lyndal Jones, Donna Marcus, Henry Moore, Scott Redford, Karen Ward and Philip Wolfhagen (2008)
• Rhapsody 21C: Tasmanian Contemporary Art. An exhibition of 33 Tasmanian contemporary artists coordinated with a major University and Museum Gallery directors Conference held at the Academy of the Arts in 2005. Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania (2005)
• Never Everland: Michal Doolan, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania (2005)