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.

Ruth Weldon
Director

Ruth Weldon (she/her) is a highly skilled and experienced arts worker, living and working on Kaurna Yerta with twenty years’ experience in the arts across festivals, youth arts, arts education and community cultural development.

In 2025 Ruth graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) with an MFA in Cultural Leadership. Outside of her new role as Director of Post Office Projects (POP) Ruth is the Development Manager at Nexus Arts and a freelance audio describer working with Access2Arts.

From her beginnings travelling the world working on festivals, she has had a range of experiences across administration, marketing, producing and development. Ruth is immensely passionate about making arts accessible for all and helping to foster the next generation of artists and arts workers.

Tania Hirschausen
Curator

Tania is a curator and cultural practitioner living and working
on Kaurna lands. 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 Curator with
Post Office Projects and independent Contemporary Art
Curator, she is a Board Member at The Mill.