Jacintha Biesek

A multidisciplinary artist/researcher and practitioner with a background in Visual Cultures, Art History, and Conservation. Experienced in academic research, exhibition production, artefact care, and public engagement. Passionate about the intersections of visual cultures, Art, architecture, materiality, identity, and storytelling through curatorial and editorial practices.

Personal Work In Progress Project:
Underpainting – Project Blurb
Underpainting is a curatorial research project presented as a podcast, exploring the layered intersections of art, memory, identity, and material culture—particularly across Southeast Asia and Europe. Through conversations with artists, conservators, and cultural workers, the project investigates how surface and structure, repair and residue, shape both personal and collective histories. Blending oral histories, visual analysis, and curatorial reflection, Underpainting reframes preservation as both practice and poetics.

If you’re an artist, conservator, or curator based in Southeast Asia or Europe, and your practice engages with cultural memory, preservation, or storytelling, I’d love to hear from you. Underpainting is always looking to feature voices involved in thoughtful, material-based cultu...

BA(Hons) in History of Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2015-2018

I studied in London, England, United Kingdom. I honed my expertise as an art practitioner exploring what innovation we can endeavour through the Curatorial &

Visual Cultures.
Dissertation: WINDOWS, Exploring the thresholds of windows; the relationship between the looking in and out of our windows. The culture of surveillance, the roles the naive rectangular frame plays in our lives, through the exploration of art theories, paintings and sculptures of Windows. Architectures, the form they can take, how cities are built and the impacts on the living. The Curatorial, forms curatorial spaces and events can take within/outside the gallery and museum walls. And today in our contemporary lives where we are dominated by screens, these innocent windows found on every smart device big and small have us hooked to the screens, at the same time allowing us access to pry into the rest of the world or are we remotely subjected to surveillance?