Curator, Historical European Art

6 hours ago

Sydney, Australia NSW Government -Art Gallery of NSW Full time

**Ongoing, full time**:

- **Sydney CBD - The Domain**:

- **Curator Grade 1**:

- **Total Remuneration Package up to $122,476**:

- **Salary range ($91,472 to $109,371)**

Established in 1871, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is located in Sydney’s The Domain adjacent to the Royal Botanic Garden and near the Central Business District, the Gallery acknowledges the original custodians of this land - the Gadigal people of the Eora nation.

The Gallery attracts around 1.4 million visitors annually and runs Australia’s largest education program with over 90,000 student and teacher visits per year.

With our expanded campus recent opening the Gallery has a new state-of-the-art building located next to our existing and much-loved building. Providing us with close to double the exhibition space, the expanded Gallery enables us to share more art with more people and provide more family, learning and educational programming for all our audiences.

We are seeking diverse, collaborative, supportive and brilliant individuals to work alongside our existing talent and build on our rich history to create an even more inspiring Gallery for the future.

**Our commitment to diversity**

**About the Role**

Work in an an area of curatorial specialisation and research (portfolio). Develop collection and/or exhibition programs. Curate collection displays and loan-based exhibitions. Complete scholarly publications.

For more information about the role please view the role description and information for applicants or contact the nominated contact person listed in the advertisement

**What technical / soft skills you require**
- Tertiary degree, post graduate degree or post graduate diploma in art history or equivalent and knowledge of the curatorial specialisation area, coupled with considerable curatorial experience or equivalent professional training in the arts sector, art gallery or art museum sector.
- Demonstrated experience managing and curating an art collection and/or exhibitions programme, including publishing in the area of specialisation
- Proven demonstrated experience in undertaking research to an academic standard, the ability to use Vernon CMS and/or other relational databases, advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office and the ability to undertake a wide range of curatorial and cross-disciplinary programs

**Targeted questions**
- Provide an example of when you have worked in a collaborative environment on a complex exhibition or artistic project with multiple deadlines. Please provide details of how you managed your part of the workload to ensure deadlines were met. (maximum of 400 words)
- Discuss a recent exhibition, ideally of historical European art, that you have curated and describe how you maintained the focus and selection of artists and works. Provide details on how you worked with artists and or colleagues on delivering the projects objectives. (maximum of 400 words)

Part of the assessment process may include additional online capability testing, skills testing or work samples in accordance with the new Government Sector Employment Act 2013, therefore you may be contacted to participate.

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