Intro­duc­ing | Grace Dav­en­port Selth | Direc­tor of Anna Schwartz Gallery

Anna Schwartz is excit­ed to announce the appoint­ment of Grace Dav­en­port Selth as Direc­tor of Anna Schwartz Gallery. At the point of the accom­plish­ment of the gallery’s forty year his­to­ry as a lead­ing pro­tag­o­nist of con­tem­po­rary art, cura­tion, ideas and pub­lish­ing of Aus­tralian and inter­na­tion­al artists, Grace brings per­ti­nent expe­ri­ence from her years at ACCA, her time at The Cour­tauld in Lon­don and at Car­riage­works in Syd­ney. She is aligned with the uncom­pro­mised posi­tion of Anna Schwartz Gallery in dis­solv­ing the divi­sion between the ​‘pub­lic’ and the ​‘pri­vate’ in its prac­tice and his­to­ry of show­ing ambi­tious, unedit­ed projects by the great artists of this time.

“I am delight­ed to work with Grace, her pro­fes­sion­al­ism, her com­mit­ment to artists and her sup­port and inno­va­tion with col­lect­ing insti­tu­tions and indi­vid­u­als are an enhance­ment of the gallery. She brings great opti­mism and sprit to the chal­lenge of engag­ing the cul­ture with the work of artists of ideas.” — Anna Schwartz

​“I am hon­oured to join Anna and the artists rep­re­sent­ed by Anna Schwartz Gallery. Anna’s ded­i­ca­tion to the indus­try and the gallery’s con­cep­tu­al posi­tion are unpar­al­leled. I look for­ward to work­ing with the team to sup­port our vibrant com­mu­ni­ty, to fur­ther crit­i­cal dis­cus­sion and fos­ter­ing part­ner­ships both local­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly.” — Grace Dav­en­port Selth

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Image cred­it: Anna Schwartz and Grace Dav­en­port Selth. Instal­la­tion view, Louisa Bufarde­ci, hold­ing sev­er­al threads at once, fig­ur­ing a future togeth­er, 2023, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Mel­bourne. Grace dressed by ALPHA60. Pho­to: Chris­t­ian Capurro