Jo Darbyshire is a West Australian visual artist and social history curator. She graduated with a Master of Creative Arts in Cultural Heritage from Curtin University of Technology in 2004 and worked as Memorabilia and Social History Curator at the City of Perth for ten years (2005 – 2016).

She is passionate about telling stories about the people of Perth and has a special interest in ‘lowlife’ history - the history of the forgotten, difficult, colourful, marginalised and uncollected aspects of West Australian history.

In 2003 she was artist in residence at the WA Museum and curated the Gay Museum, a history of Lesbian and Gay people in WA, using strategies from the visual arts and ‘new museology’ to bring alive a history that had not been collected or acknowledged before.

She loves mysterious objects and a good story.