CURATOR IN RESIDENCE / Malvika Satelkar
7th March – 17th August, 2025
Malvika Satelkar is The Lock-Up’s COLLECT: Focus Early Career Curator for 2025. Malvika will spend the next couple of months collaborating with two local emerging artists to showcase separate bodies of work for COLLECT: Focus.
ABOUT MALVIKA SATELKAR
Malvika Satelkar is an architectural designer, researcher, and emerging multidisciplinary environmental artist who has worked with various creative professionals and created numerous public sculptural installations across Victoria, New South Wales, and Mumbai. She has been a volunteer at The Lock-Up since late 2020, assisting with several installations at the gallery. Malvika’s passion for placemaking is an expression of love—a poetic connection to and reflection of the environment that engages both human and non-human viewers. Inspired by the vibrant energy of her home Country, she aspires to bring artists and audiences together through art direction and choreography. Currently, she is developing new works while continuing to explore her interests in art, architecture and research.