West Space has announced their new director is Patrice Sharkey.

From West Space

The West Space Board, Program Committee and Staff would like to announce Patrice Sharkey as our new Director. We are thrilled with Patrice’s appointment and look forward to working with her through this next exciting stage in West Space’s history.

Having completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) majoring in Art History at the University of Melbourne in 2010, Patrice has worked at Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA since 2011. At MUMA she has co-curated keynote survey exhibitions that track watershed moments in art throughout the twentieth century (Art as Verb, 2014, and Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century, 2015), and coordinated solo projects by the acclaimed international artists Fiona Connor and Turner-Prize winning Simon Starling.

She is a current member of un Magazine’s Editorial Committee and has been a Board Member of the Melbourne artist-run space TCB art inc. since 2012. Patrice has a longstanding relationship with West Space, co-curating the off-site project The Museum is the Region, the Region is the Museum alongside Danny Lacy and Liang Luscombe in 2014.

“Having long admired West Space’s commitment to supporting the activities of artists and the central position it holds in Melbourne’s arts community, I am totally delighted to be joining the organisation” Patrice said, “I look forward to working with the whole West Space team to plan for the next stage.”