Glenn Barkley

Glenn Barkley is a Sydney-based independent curator, artist and valuer. He was previously senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia from 2008 to 2014, and curator of the University of Wollongong Art Collection from 1996 to 2007. Between 2007 and 2008, he was director and curator of the Ergas Collection. Barkley is currently an Associate Curator of The Curators' Department, Sydney, which is the organisation he co-founded in 2015. He has written extensively on Australian art and culture for magazines such as Art Monthly Australasia, Artist Profile and Art + Australia, as well as for numerous catalogues and monographs. Barkley has a diverse area of interest and knowledge, including: ceramics; public art; artist books and ephemera; outsider art and other marginal art forms; public and private collection management and development; and horticulture. He is currently writing a global history of ceramics to be published by Thames & Hudson in late 2023.