Virginia Hyam

Virginia Hyam’s career in the arts has spanned 30 years starting in Youth Arts in South Australia, moving on to Directing Melbourne Fringe Festival and then to Sydney Opera House, where she worked as Executive Producer of the Studio and the Head of Contemporary Culture, specialising in the presentation of contemporary performance. She then worked as a freelancer curating, advising and producing in contemporary performance- hybrid art forms.

Working as creative producer with Festival 2018 (Arts and Cultural Festival of the Commonwealth Games) brought her to the Gold Coast on Yugambeh country where she is now located and holding the position of Head of Programming, HOTA (Home of the Arts) – a position that enables her to drive new programming initiatives across the cultural precinct, for indoor, outdoor across a range of scales. With HOTA’s increased visibility in the national cultural landscape, they are now keen to start broadening the connections between local artists and our regional counterparts in other locations around the world.