Who we are
The Curators' Department is an independent creative agency founded in 2015 and led by Director and Curator Holly Williams. We specialise in projects that bridge contemporary art, social history, community engagement, and installation-based practice.
With over 600,000 people engaged across Australia and internationally, we connect audiences with artists and archives — translating complex ideas into accessible, culturally significant work. Our projects are visually compelling, socially relevant, and built to endure.
We work collaboratively with artists, architects, developers, and designers, drawing on a trusted network of consultants to bring specialised expertise to every project. In 2025, Array Studio was formed — a new creative collaboration with Caper Creative, building on the successful projects delivered by Holly Williams and Caper’s lead designer Melissa Cook.
Services
We deliver across the full curatorial spectrum, including public art projects and DA Public Art Plans; exhibitions, touring exhibitions, and public programs; permanent museum gallery curation; collection inspections, audits, and development for institutions and archives; and urban placemaking through murals, activations, and landscaping.
Clients
We partner with local councils, museums and galleries, architects and property developers, private companies, regional arts organisations, universities, and private collectors.
We acknowledge the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people, the traditional custodians of the land on which we primarily work and Custodians of Country wherever our projects take place. We also acknowledge First Nations Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters, culture and community and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded