Superposition is an experimental arts festival in the UNESCO World Heritage Blue Mountains, where artists create site-responsive works inspired by quantum physics, geology, and wave theory. Bringing together local and international talent, the festival explores meaningful intersections between art, nature, and community through innovative, place-based creative practice. Opens 2027
Co- Director with Unfunded Empathy
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2027
The Ministry of Culture is a three-month cultural journey across the Pacific to the Murray Mouth, using art, performance, story and a traveling pavilions to carry Pacific, First Nations and frontline voices directly to COP31. This epic procession transforms climate policy into human stories, ensuring communities most impacted by rising seas and dying rivers lead the global climate conversation. In Development
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2027
Culture Shapers is a Groundswell program that brings together leading voices from film, TV, radio and journalism. Through immersive events, the program equips leaders with tools to naturally weave climate solutions into mainstream Australian culture aiming to shift public opinion and drive political action
Curator/ Creative Producer
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2025
All the Queens Men present part pageant, part talent quest, part This Is Your Life, The Pageant is a spectacular public celebration, honouring older individuals thriving in their ‘prime time’ To be presented at Perth Festival in 2027
Creative Producer
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2027
A series of 10 up late nights with a multi-arts program spanning performance, music, film, and food across the Carriageworks precinct
Curator/ Creative producer
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The Valerie Taylor Art prize is for Oceania's leading and most innovative artists who care about the degradation of our oceans. This art prize presents an opportunity for invited artists to promote a love of the ocean, awareness of the vastness of the problems, and practical solutions to fix them.
Co-Director
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A series of 5 artist led events in the heritage bar at The Alex. Including Hannah Bronte, Emily Parsons- Lord, Samuel Hodge and Rosie Deacon
Curator/ Creative Producer
Friends with Strangers was the Co- Artistic Director with Sēini 'SistaNative' Taumoepeau of Sound Out the Street. Sound Out the Street was a site-specific relational space activation in Erskineville Village which honoured the transient and itinerant nature of the local Art community of creatives. Sound Out the Street centered storytelling and the call’n’response of conversation as an intervention throughout Erskineville
Artistic Director
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- 2023
'HOME' a bushfire relief fundraiser at the National Art School. HOME was a one night only exhibition and art auction event with 67 leading and emerging artist works including Mike Parr, Tony Albert,Joan Ross and Angela Tiatia raising $250, 000 for the Climate Council, Seed Mob and Firesticks
Curator / Creative Producer
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Emerging 40 years ago in response to artists’ articulated desire to explore and investigate new forms of art, Performance Space has consistently identified, nurtured and presented new directions in contemporary practice championing risk, experimentation, and new modes of creative expression.
Sam Watson Wood was Executive Producer and then Artistic Advisor at Performance Space from 2020 - 2022
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- 2022
Sydney Contemporary - Sydney Contemporary is an international art fair’s with Australia ’s largest and most diverse gathering of local and international galleries.
Sam Watson Wood was The Director of Programs and Partnerships and part of the launch team. In 2023/ 24 Friends with Strangers curated the performance and talks program of the Fair.
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- 2021
Art Month Sydney is an annual festival that encourages engagement with contemporary art and artists through a culture of gallery visitation, fostering pathways for the next generation of collectors and facilitating access to artists and their stories.
Sam Watson Wood was the Festival Director of Art Month in 2016 and 2017
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- 2017
Clerkenwell Design Week - Clerkenwell Design Week is an award-winning international design festival that celebrates all disciplines of design in London’s creative hub. The festival houses 4 major exhibition spaces and over 60 design showrooms with an array of installations, workshops, seminars, performances and street activations.
Sam Watson Wood was part of the launch team working across communications, audience development, programs and commissions.
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- 2012