Zoe Rimmer is a pakana (Tasmanian Aboriginal) community member with Ancestral connections to north east Lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia. Zoe is currently the Senior Curator of Indigenous Cultures at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and is comple...More
Zoe Rimmer is a pakana (Tasmanian Aboriginal) community member with Ancestral connections to north east Lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia. Zoe is currently the Senior Curator of Indigenous Cultures at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and is completing a Senior Indigenous Research Scholarship at the University of Tasmania. Zoe has previously had a role on several government appointed advisory committees, including as Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee for Indigneous Repatriation and as a member of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Heritage Council. Zoe is passionate about decolonising memory institutions through increasing Indigneous voice and representation, as well as through utilising collections and archives to maintain, revive and elaborate cultural practices. In 2013 she was awarded a Chuchill Fellowship to explore different directions, methodologies, and outcomes in museum engagement with Indigenous peoples in the USA, Canada, UK and France. Zoe recently co-curated the national award winning, touring exhitbion kanalaritja: An Unbroken String, associated publication and documentary film.
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