Qualifications
2019- 2024 MFA by Research, with Distinctions, School of Art, College of Design and Social Context,
RMIT University, Melbourne
2008 – 2010 Post Graduate Diploma of Museum Studies (Art Galleries), Deakin University, Burwood.
2004 – 2006 Bachelor of Art, (sculpture) Fine Art with Distinctions, Scool of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne.
1986 – 1988 2 Year Diploma of Visual Merchandising, Melbourne College of Decoration,( RMIT Tafe), Melbourne.
Cultural Producer
Current roles
Festival Director - Nati Frinj Biennale 2025
Freelance Exhibition Curator - Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery (Exhibition Project for 2025)
Industry Experience Overview
Regional Gallery Curator -temporary exhibitions & collection exhibitions (11 years)
Public Gallery program events development, planning and delivery (8 years)
Exhibition project management (10years)
Academic art research and writing (4 years)
Gallery Collection management and art handling (11 years)
Public Gallery art acquisitions, acquisition grant writing (11 years)
Regional Art festival project and strategic planning (8 years)
Community art project grant writing (3 years)
Visual Merchandising in retail (10 years)
Art Practice/ studio practice (since 1998- present)
Curatorial Residency 2018
Eggleton undertook a self directed curatorial research residency in 2018 at Rimbun Dahan Art Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This research became the foundational research for her MFA by Research.
Academic Scholarship 2019-2024
Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, RMIT Melbourne
Selected curated exhibition
Expansive ground: Sidney Nolan in the Wimmera, 10 December 2022- 05 March 2023, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Selected from sketches & paintings created between 1942- 1943, Expansive ground: Sidney Nolan in the Wimmera, has been curated from the National Gallery of Australia collection, the Heide Museum of Modern Art collection and the Horsham Regional Art Gallery Collection.
Mali marrng Mallee sky : Gail Harradine and Belinda Eckermann, 29 April 2022 - 10 July 2022, Horsham Regional Art Gallery and presented as part of PHOTO2022 International Photography Festival, Melbourne.
The new series Mali marrng Mallee sky by Gail Harradine and Belinda Eckermann gives form to the invisible and unseen personal, familial, community narrative of connection to landscape. This work merges digital photography, entomological research, electron microscopic imaging, and First Nations cultural practices to explore a shared knowledge and connection to the landscape around Lake Albacutya–Ngalukgutya in Victoria’s Mallee region.
https://photo.org.au/events/mali-marrng-mallee-sky/
UNstable: Megan Evans, December 2020- Feb 2021 Horsham Regional Art Gallery
UNstable Keloid #8, is the eighth in a series of exhibitions that are part of an ongoing body of work by artist Megan Evans titled the KELOID project, through which she examines the traces of early colonial history and the impact of that history as it unfolds today.
Minstrel Kuik: She who had no self, 15 Feb - 23 March 2020, Horsham Regional Art Gallery and the presented as part of the augural PHOTO2020 International Photography Festival, Melbourne.
In She who has no self, , Minstrel Kuik considers and questions the politics of place, familial and cultural identity and how this intersects with personal experience. Born in Malaysia of Chinese ancestry, she lives and works in Kajang a suburban neighbourhood on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. In She who has self, curated by Alison Eggleton, Kuik negotiates the tensions of different ideologies and social bounds is an everyday occurrence. Not only do these daily experiences position her between political society and authorities, they shape her artistic practice by providing necessary comparative grounds for her to consider the complexities of our modern life.
https://photo.org.au/channel/she-who-has-no-self-essay/
https://www.vaultmagazine.com/extra_archive/extra202001.php
Emeshed: Woven artworks from the Ararat Regional Art Gallery, 15 December 2017 - 10 May 2018, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Co-curated with Anthony Camm, Director of Ararat Regional Art Gallery
Exhibition Catalogue located under ‘writing’
Industry Engagements
2024 Art research presenter, Australasian Network for Asian Art (AN4AA) Post Graduate Symposium 2024, RMIT University Melbourne.
2018 Guest panellist for Regional Arts Victoria At ‘SYMPOSIUM: Expanding Artistic Horizons-Developing your arts career,’ held in Port Fairy, Victoria
2016 Art writer–exhibition review, Art Education Australia on Sue Pavlovich ‘Sensorium ‘exhibition in Volume 39, number 2. 2016.
2016 Art writer–catalogue essay, School of Architecture & Design, RMIT Melbourne ‘Malaysia Australia Raft Project’ in Performing Mobilities- Fluid States project catalogue 2016
2016 Assessment panel member for Creative Victoria Visual Art Grants Round 3 2016.