Andrew Varano is an artist, writer and curator from Perth. In 2009 he attended the Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Italy, studying under the visiting professor Walid Raad. He completed his degree with honours at Curtin University in 2010 and also in that year he received the inaugural Dr Harold Schenberg Prize for his work in PICA’s ‘Hatched’ graduate exhibition. Between 2011 and 2013, along with Jamie Macchiusi and Gemma Weston, he was a co-director at OK Gallery in Perth, which exhibited new work from local, national and international artists. In 2015 he participated in the Australia Council’s emerging curator program at the Venice Biennale and in 2016 he worked as the Acting Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Currently, Along with Daniel Bourke and Gemma Weston, he is a member of Pet Projects, which operates both as an artist run gallery space and artistic collaboration (www.petprojects.fyi). Andrew is currently working on the fourth episode of ‘Status Effect’, a podcast he edits and produces that commissions long form audio articles from artists and arts workers (www.statuseffect.org). He has published writing in Un Magazine, AQNB and Artlink as well as written exhibition texts for PICA, Fremantle Arts Centre and others. ‘soliloquies from small spaces’ is his first solo exhibition in Sydney.
