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Henry Wolff

Henry Wolff

MRes Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Art & Design

Email: h.wolff@unsw.edu.au

Website: https://henrywolff.com/

Supervisors: Edward Scheer, Prudence Gibson, Grant Stevens

Henry Wolff is a contemporary artist and researcher based in Tarntanya/Adelaide, Australia, working across performance, photography and moving image. Their practice-led research investigates how queer ecology can cut in multiple directions, exploring how this paradox might be inhabited rather than resolved. Through this lens, Wolff examines the entanglement of queer bodies with ecological systems, attending to how tenderness, vulnerability, rage and transformation emerge within more-than-human relations. Alongside their art practice and research, Wolff is Engagement & Development Manager at Helpmann Academy, where they lead strategic partnerships and fundraising to support emerging creatives.

Queer ecology and performance art

Wolff exhibits and performs in galleries, public spaces, and online across Australia and internationally. They have undertaken mentorships with several leading Australian artists (Hoda Afshar, Amos Gebhardt, Eugenia Lim, David Rosetzky), and residency programs with institutions including Centre for Projection Art (VIC, AU). Recent career highlights include a major collaborative work 'care–––fall' realised with artist Heidi Kenyon in 2025 (SA, AU); co-curation of the ‘Deeply Hanging Out’ performance initiative at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) Gallery as part of ‘Push/Pull’ in 2025 and in ongoing programming (SA, AU); a commission by Photo Australia for PHOTO 2022, an international photographic biennial (VIC, AU); exhibiting as the feature artist for the 2022 Gertrude Street Projection Festival (VIC, AU), and performing Mel O'Callaghan's 'Respire Respire' at Samstag Museum for the 2022 presentation of 'Centre of the Centre'. In 2020 Wolff’s work ‘Sibling’ was identified as one of the top 125 works from around the world by Aesthetica Art Magazine (LDN, UK), and they performed at the Art Gallery of South Australia with Melbourne collective APHIDS for the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres' (SA, AU).