What the pop?!

Welcome to Post Office Projects

Post Office Projects is a vibrant arts space, located in the heart of historic Port Adelaide, housed in the former Port Adelaide Post Office. Our aim is to champion early and mid-career artists, supporting sustainable artistic development and connection between artists, audiences and colleagues, locally, as well as interstate and internationally. POP is home to a large gallery space, three contemporary and community arts organisations, artist studios and a community workshop space.

Run by a dedicated team of volunteer curators, POP will support early and mid-career artists to take the next step in their careers. We provide space and support for artists through large-scale solo exhibitions, curatorially rigorous group shows, extended time periods for ambitious installations and a studio program focused on creating new connections and professional development.

Our vision is to create a welcoming space where artists and audiences connect in order to develop artistic practice and create space for critical dialogue. At the core of our programming are our shared values of connection, place, experimentation and critical discussion.

Post Office Projects is generously supported by the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.

Eleanor Scicchitano
Director

Eleanor is an Adelaide-based independent curator and writer. From 2013 – 2019 she was the Visual Arts Program Curator at Country Arts SA, and the Visual Arts Coordinator at Tandanya – NACI from 2011 – 2013. She has held volunteer roles including co-director of FELTspace ARI. She graduated with a Masters in Curatorial and Museum Studies from the University of Adelaide in 2012, and is the current Chair of the AHCAN committee. From 2014-2016 she sat on the Board of Directors of the AEAF, and from 2017-2019 on the Board of ACE Open. In 2020 she joined the Arts Industry Council of SA Executive Committee. Eleanor was elected to the Arts Industry Council of South Australia’s Committee in 2020.

In 2015 Eleanor travelled to Venice where she was a Team Leader at the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2018 she received a Darling Travel Grant, which saw her travel to the UK and Italy to research community engagement strategies in contemporary art spaces. In 2019 she was an active participant in the Independent Curators International, Auckland Curatorial Intensive and spent a month in Newman, Western Australia working with Martumili Artists.

Scicchitano’s curatorial practice commonly involves working with artists to explore identity and the body. She has curated numerous exhibitions across Australia, including at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, and Artbank, Sydney.

Steph Cibich
Assistant Director

Steph Cibich is an independent curator and arts writer working on Kaurna Country. She has curated exhibitions and worked on projects including with FELTspace, the City of Onkaparinga, Adhocracy (Vitalstatistix), ACE, and was the inaugural ARTWORKS Emerging Curator, presented by Guildhouse and the City of Adelaide. Recently, she has worked as Curator with the City of Adelaide and volunteers and POP’s Studio Manager. Steph’s work centres on collaborating with and championing the work of contemporary artists. Through democratic and meaningful art projects, she seeks to bring people and ideas together by fostering connections between artists, art, and audiences.

Tania Hirschausen
Curator

Tania is an Adelaide-based curator and cultural practitioner. After a decade working as a Photographer and Visual Arts Educator, she graduated with a Masters in Curatorial and Museum Studies from the University of Adelaide in 2017. During her Masters program, she interned for twelve months in both the Contemporary Art and Prints, Drawings & Photographs departments at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In 2017 Tania travelled to Switzerland to undertake further studies in curating with the Oncurating Summer Academy at the Zurich University for the Arts. In addition to her roles as Assistant Curator with Post Office Projects and independent Contemporary Art Curator, she is a Board Member at The Mill.