I believe deeply in the power of museums, libraries and galleries to shape a more inclusive, creative, and connected so-called Australia.

With over 15 years of creative leadership across Queensland’s cultural and public sectors, I’m proud to be able to share with you some of the work that I have co-created along the way - alongside generous and talented individuals, communities, collaborators, and colleagues.

Selected experience

Exhibition management
The unbroken spirit of the Kalkadoons, Deaf in dance, Neon, Working Country, Purpose built, Meet the artists, Sovereign stories, The great & grand rumpus, Viewpoints, Entwined, Deadly threads, Big voices, Cut copy, Twenty, Spoken.

Curation
Driven: Every car has a story (in development)
Purpose built: Architecture for a better tomorrow
Home: a suburban obsession

Public Programs & Engagement
The Edge (ongoing)
Yalanya: That’s the way it is (2024)
State Library of Queensland 120 Year Anniversary (2022)
Asia Pacific Architecture Festival (2015 - 2023)
Siganto Digital Learning Workshops (2017 - 2022)

Media
Colleen Sam: The unbroken spirit of the Kalkadoons (2025) Lemonade Letters to Art
Surviving one of the darkest periods of Queensland’s colonial past (2025) The Guardian
A salute to the Age of Neon (2024) InDaily, Inside Queensland
How good design can improve the way we all live (2023) ArchitectureAu
Purpose built: Architecture for a better tomorrow (2023) Lemonade Letters to Art
Spilling the tea on Queensland’s history (2022) Peppermint Magazine
Rare photographic collection of Queensland houses goes on exhibition (2018) ArchitectureAu.
Home: A suburban obsession (2018) ArchitectureAu

Recognition
2025 Winner - Queensland Reconciliation Award (Education).
Issued by The Queensland Government through the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and the Department of Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Multiculturalism. The unbroken spirit of the Kalkadoons exhibition, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2025 Finalist - Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards.
Issued by Museums & Galleries Queensland. Neon exhibition, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2025 Finalist - Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards.
Issued by Museums & Galleries Queensland. Deaf in dance exhibition, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2024 Finalist - Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards.
Issued by Museums & Galleries Queensland. Meet the artists exhibition, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2022 Finalist - Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards.
Issued by Museums & Galleries Queensland. The Great & Grand Rumpus exhibition, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2022 Winner - VALA Award.
Issued by Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc.. Siganto Digital Learning Workshops public program, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2021 Highly Commended - Museums Australia Publication Design Award (Film).
Issued by Australian Museums and Galleries Association. Cut Copy: Brisbane music posters 1977 - 1987 exhibition, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2021 Winner - Museums Australia Publication Design Award (Virtual Tour).
Issued by Australian Museums and Galleries Association. SPOKEN: Celebrating Queensland Languages exhibition, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2020 Good Design Award (Digital Design Interface).
Issued by Good Design Australia. Home: a suburban obsession exhibition, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2019 Gold Award for Heritage & Interpretation, National Trust Queensland Heritage Award & the 2019 John Herbet Memorial Award.
Issued by the National Trust of Australia (Queensland). Home: a suburban obsession exhibition, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2018 Good Design Award (Education Services).
Issued by Good Design Australia. Fix-ed education program, Department of Education and Training, Kombumerri land/Pimpama.

2018 Good Design Award (Digital Design).
Issued by Good Design Australia. Design Minds education program, State Library of Queensland, Magandjin/Brisbane.

2016 Good Design Award (Education Services)
Issued by Good Design Australia. Jump Start education program, Department of Education and Training, Kombumerri land/Pimpama.

2012 Queensland-Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt) Design Museum Fellow.
Issued by Department Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, Magandjin/Brisbane.