Te Tuhi is pleased to announce Jordan Davey-Emms as the 2024 curatorial intern at Parnell Project Space.

Beginning in April 2024, Jordan Davey-Emms will be the fourth early-career curator to develop their own project at Te Tuhi’s Parnell Project Space.

Jordan is an artist and curator who ran Wormhole in Edgecumbe, Whakatāne. She was a founding member of the Kauae Raro Research Collective (2020 - 2022) and the winner of the 2017 Glaister Ennor Award at Sanderson Contemporary Art. Jordan is interested in play, process, place, ecologies, and belonging. Her writing can be found in Plates Journal, Vernacular, and on Wormhole's website.

On being offered the 2024 -2025 curatorial internship, Jordan said:

“I'm really excited to take on this role with Te Tuhi! I am hoping to use this opportunity to grow my confidence as a curator outside of my hometown, and to dig deeper into the themes and approaches I experimented with at Wormhole: thinking about living inside ecologies; centering partnership, reciprocity, and friendliness; and playing with the sensory potential of exhibition making. I'm looking forward to working in a different context, with the support of the team at Te Tuhi. I'm looking forward to building community through art again, and trying things out together.”

About the internship Inaugurated in 2020, Te Tuhi’s curatorial internship programme has so far offered three early-career curators the mentorship and resources needed to develop their own curatorial project within Parnell Project Space.

Using the project space for research and curatorial experimentation, the interns receive mentorship and access to Te Tuhi’s resources, working in an environment supported by an established team. Autonomy over their projects offers the chance for individuals to grow their curatorial voice by running a space that stands independent from Te Tuhi’s main programming.

The internship framework contributes to Te Tuhi’s wider scope for professional development of curatorial practice within Aotearoa New Zealand.

The 2024 internship is a 12 month, full-time, paid training position for an emerging art curator in Aotearoa New Zealand to curate a programme from April 2024 to March 2025. This is an opportunity for a committed curatorial practitioner to build their practice and gain significant work experience in the sector.

The need With a strategic focus on supporting curatorial research, Te Tuhi is committed to developing curatorial capacity within Aotearoa New Zealand to engage with the local and global conversations in contemporary art. Te Tuhi actively seeks to provide opportunities for the development of Aotearoa New Zealand's curators at all levels of their careers. Further, the informal national network of art gallery directors has identified curatorial professional development as the most important professional development need of the sector. 

About Parnell Project Space Parnell Project Space is an exhibition, performance and event space located on the platform at Parnell Station, Tāmaki Makaurau. It is part of Te Tuhi at Parnell Station, which also incorporates Te Tuhi Studios. Parnell Project Space offers an opportunity for contemporary curators and artists who have an interest in experimental and social practices, providing an environment in which artists and curators can develop their practices and expand their networks. 

For more information about Te Tuhi’s curatorial internship, past recipients and projects at Parnell Project Space, visit their website here

Jordan Davey-Emms. Image courtesy of the artist.

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