Gareth Hart is an independent Artist, Producer and leader having spent over 15 years as a practicing artist, creating a suite of innovative dance and installation work. This body of work has toured extensively around Australia, received critical acclaim internationally, and even won an award here and there.
They are interested in the intersection between body, psychology and place - often manifesting in explorations of site-specificity, interrogating the spaces between corporeality, improvisation and inhabited space. This also happens to the be the title of their Master's thesis.
 In 2017 Hart was awarded an Australia Day Award for ‘outstanding contribution to the Yarra Ranges community’. In 2018, Hart was fortunate enough to be selected by the Australia Council for the Arts, to participate in the highly competitive Future Leaders program. For the past 10 years Hart has adopted a range of leadership roles across regional arts organisations and festivals, including CEO of Burrinja Cultural Centre, Executive Director of Arts Mildura and festival director of hillsceneLIVE and CRACK Theatre Festival. Professionally, their work in organizational and community leadership is underpinned by deeply held values of humanity and humanness.