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).
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 PhD researching the home and hearth in contemporary Australian visual culture.
Malcom is also the Drawing Studio Coordinator in the School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania.
In 2008 malcom was appointed a Member of the Australia Council Community Partnerships Committee.
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.
Tel: +61 3 6324 4410
Email: Malcom.Bywaters@utas.edu.au
Academy Gallery Director
