Olivia Welch is a Sydney based emerging curator. She is a founding member of YOLK Collective, a group of six art theorists creating curatorial, editorial and networking opportunities for their peers. Olivia will speak about her experiences as an emerging curator.

Olivia Welch graduated from the the College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW, Sydney, with a First-Class Honours degree in Art History and Theory, specialising in Australian Indigenous contemporary art, post-colonial studies and the politico-legal issue of Indigenous sovereignty. Since late 2009 Olivia has been a Gallery Assistant at Brenda May Gallery, where she co-curated ‘Mighty Small’ in 2013 and embarked on her second curatorial project ‘In Tandem’ in early 2014. www.oliviamwelch.com