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So you want my arts job: Design Curator

Design Curator Tonya Meyrick of Geelong Design Week in Australia’s only UNESCO City of Design shares insights into her role.

18 Nov 2024 9:00

Celina Lei

Tonya Meyrick, Guest Curator of Geelong Design Week. A middle-aged woman in black and white wearing black frame glasses and a checkered scarf on a red background with the text “So you want my arts job?”

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Tonya Meyrick, Guest Curator of Geelong Design Week. Image: Supplied.

Tonya Meyrick is a Senior Lecturer, Screen and Design With the Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, with over 25 years of experience and scholarship across Australia, Toronto and London. Now living in Geelong, Meyrick is the Guest Curator of the upcoming Geelong Design Week and sees her role as responsible in driving the success of a regional design festival in Australia’s only UNESCO City of Design.

Meyrick has worked with high-profile clients and partners, including the ABC, Federation Square, National Gallery of Victoria, Disney, Coca-Cola and more.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_