Hayley Zena Poynton is an artist and curator living on Dharug and Gundungurra country, Blue Mountains. She is currently curating at The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre City Art Gallery and before that worked in Visitor Experience at the Art Gallery of NSW. Hayley maintains a collaborative curatorial methodology to facilitate meaningful experiences between the artist and the audience. As an artist Hayley is strongly influenced by the natural world, the gothic, and the human expression of storytelling, primarily folklore and revisionist histories.