Gabriel Curtin

Gabriel Curtin is an artist, writer and musician living as an uninvited guest on unceded Gadigal Country. His work broadly considers poetry’s ability to locate and enact relations unencumbered by policy. He is a current PhD candidate at UNSW ADA where he teaches art history. His current research seeks to trace the production of social formations via the various cultural languages evoked by the popular iced-lolly ‘Calippo’. Some of his work can be found in Best of Australian Poems 2024, Meanjin, Minarets, Rabbit, Cordite, Un Magazine, Infrastructural Inequalities, Unusual Work, Borderlands, Vre Books and Art + Australia. He was a finalist for the 2021 NT Literary Awards (poetry), was highly commended in the 2017 W.B Yeats poetry prize and the recipient of the Northern Territory Writers Festival Residency 2022. He is a co-founder of Vre Books.