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indonesia.australia.art.education.interpretation.translation
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Curriculum Vitae (Translator):
Name: Elly (Ellen) Kent
Address: Jln Pamularsih 21B, Patangpuluhan, Wirobrajan, Daerah Istimewa
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Mobile: +62 (0)82129298078
Email: ellydotkent@gmail.com
Summary
I work as a freelance Indonesian language translator and arts consultant. I am a visual
artist and researcher with a strong personal and professional history in Indonesia. I am
currently undertaking my PhD at the Australian National University School of Art,
studying contemporary Indonesian artists who have participatory practices, and
undertaking a number of participatory arts projects across Australia and Indonesia.
Qualifications
2008 – current
Accredited NAATI translator: Indonesian – English
(Australian National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters Ltd)
1999-2005
BA Visual Arts - Printmaking and Drawing (Honours, Second class A level),
BA Asian Studies - (Specialist) Indonesian, Australian National University

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indonesia.australia.art.education.interpretation.translation
mob: +62 821292980778 e: ellydotkent@gmail.com.au
w: http://ellykent.com/
Translation Projects
I am a NAATI accredited Indonesian-English language translator, specialising in arts
publications. As well as providing translation services for major exhibition catalogues
around the world, I also provide ongoing translation service to a number of Indonesia's
leading contemporary art spaces, including Ark Galerie, Cemeti Art House, and the
Indonesian Visual Arts Archive, Hyphen Arts Management and artists FX Harsono
and Dadang Christanto. In recent years major translation projects have included:
2015 (Book 1) Reclaiming Indonesia: Understanding Forty Years of Violence to
Break the Chains of Impunity
(Book 2) Reclaiming Indonesia: Voices of Victims Freed from the Shackles
of Past Violence (sole commissioned translator for two-part major publication
forthcoming, funded by the Herb Feith Foundation)
2015 Creative Communities Project field reports translation, Yayasan Kelola
(consultant translation team leader, editor, funded by World Bank)
2014 EXPANDING THE FIGHT: Voices of Women Survivors in the Struggle
Against Violence, Asian Justice and Rights (sole comissioned translator,
forthcoming publication, original text available at http://asia-
ajar.org/buku/?lang=id)
2014 Arsipelago: Archival Work and Archiving Art and Culture in Indonesia,
Indonesian Visual Arts Archive, Yogyakarta (translation, proofreading and
editing of English translations, funded by Ford Foundation)
2013 'Biennale Jogja XII' catalogue and online essays, Yayasan Biennale
Yogyakarta (major exhibition publication translation and checking of subsidiary
translations) http://www.biennalejogja.org/2013/article/re-imagining-arab-in-
indonesia/?lang=en
2013 SEA+ Triennial catalogue; 'Ways Around Asia', Indonesian National Gallery
(major exhibition publication, sole commisioned translator)
http://seaplus-triennale.info/wp/
2012 ‘Sip!’ Indonesian Art Today (sole commissioned translator, major arts
publication)
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Other Recent Activity

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indonesia.australia.art.education.interpretation.translation
mob: +62 821292980778 e: ellydotkent@gmail.com.au
w: http://ellykent.com/
2013-15 Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Post-Graduate Award 2013 (AWARDEE)
Recipient of achievement award providing funding for 12 months study and 12
months internship in Indonesia.
2013 In Possible Worlds 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (EXHIBITOR)
Recent works by Australian artists Claudia Nicholson, Elly Kent and Tianli Zu.
Exhibition launched at 4A by Anna Davis, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art
2013 ‘Beyond the Self – Contemporary Portraiture from Asia (PUBLICATION)
Mining the Self (self portraits in S Teddy D’s art practice). Contributing writer,
translation. Publication forthcoming
2012 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Emerging Artist’s Award
(AWARDEE)
2012 AAANZ (Arts Association of Australia and New Zealand) (PRESENTER)
Paper examining recent participatory art projects by artist FX Harsono and the
author
2011 Initiator and co-ordinator, Teman Gambar Big Draw project
Facilitating a collaborative drawing project between students of four Australian
schools and four schools on the slopes of Mt Merapi, Central Java
2011 Research Assistant, Beyond the Self - Contemporary Self-portraiture from
Asia (curator: Christine Clark) National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
(CURATORIAL)
2011 Curatorium member, In Memory of a Name, 4A Contemporary Art Space,
(EXHIBITION/PROJECT) Cross-disciplinary research project led by Indonesian
artist FX Harsono, in conjunction with Edge of Elsewhere, Sydney Festival
2010 Asialink Arts Management Residency
Hosted by Indonesian Visual Arts Archive, researching arts programming for
families and children in Indonesia