Taylor Hall and Rebecca Jak are Australian curators working across art and architecture. This project reflects their shared interests in materiality, embodiment, and co-authored practice.
Jak and Hall first collaborated on Occupy, a critically recognised exhibition for the 2022 Australasian Students of Architecture Congress, which explored occupation as protest, care and resistance through a dynamic group show, interactive publication and program. Now based in London, their collaborative dialogue has continued and expanded into the international sphere.
Meet the curators
Rebecca Jak
Co-curator Architecture
Rebecca Jak is an architectural researcher and curator currently completing her master’s degree at the Architectural Association. Her research focuses on urban memory, mythology and the ontologies of energy, alongside professional experience at Lynch Architects and Eric Parry Architects.
Parallel to her architectural practice, Jak is interested in multidisciplinary collaboration and has played a key role in curating and organising exhibitions, book launches, workshops and lectures. In 2022, she co-led the Australasian Students of Architecture Congress, contributing to its curatorial and public programme.
Co-curator
Contemporary Art
Taylor Hall
Taylor Hall is an contemporary art curator whose practice examines how materiality, form and tactility shape embodied and reciprocal experiences of art. Since 2018, her projects have explored how objects and spaces mediate human connection, including Hold, Everything (2019) at the University of Queensland Art Museum and Lotion (2022) at Metro Arts, which focused on soft, embodied forms as a gesture of care and object-oriented empathy.
Hall has worked across institutional, commercial and architectural contexts, with experience at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Onespace Gallery, and Lynch Architects. In late 2023, she was selected to participate in the 5th Autumn School of Curating in Romania led by incoming Documenta curator Xiaoyu Weng.