This position is situated in the Curatorial and Programs Portfolio, within the department of Prints and Drawings. It reports to the Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings and is responsible for the cataloguing of Australian prints and drawings. The collection of Australia prints, drawings, watercolours, artist books and illustrated books brings together works on paper by non-Indigenous artists that begins with pre-colonial contact, in Australia. Due to their immediacy and portability, drawings and watercolours provide the basis for the collection’s most historically significant depictions of the ensuing colonisation of Australia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The comprehensive holdings of twentieth and twenty-first century modern and contemporary works on paper aims to ensure that the collection is national in scope and that it reflects the cultural and political diversity of artists working in Australia today.

The Curatorial Assistant, Gordon Darling Graduate Intern (Australian Prints), will be engaged primarily in the areas of cataloguing Australian prints and drawings and assisting the Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings and the Senior Curator, Prints and Drawings with:
– collection development
– crafting acquisition submissions
– provenance research
– writing labels for exhibition and
– co-ordinating the movement of works of art.
The Curatorial Assistant role will also require the web-based delivery of information on the National Gallery’s collection of Australian prints.

This professional development role is situated in the Curatorial and Programs Portfolio, within the department of Prints and Drawings. It reports to the Curator, Australian Prints and Drawings and is a non-ongoing full-time position for 12 months.

HOW TO APPLY
You should provide a tailored CV (maximum of three pages) along with a statement of no more than two pages that outlines your skills, capabilities and experience, against the ‘Our ideal candidate’ information available in the position document on our website.

In your statement response you should keep in mind the capabilities and behaviours required to be successful for this role, as identified in the ‘Who are we looking for?’ section.

Further, try not to duplicate information that can be found in your CV, but do highlight any specific examples or achievements that demonstrate your ability to perform the role.

You should forward your application to recruitment@nga.gov.au.

Contact
Further information about the position may be obtained by contacting Sally Foster, Senior Curator, Prints and Drawings on +61 6240 6769 or sally.foster@nga.gov.au.

CLOSING DATE
Applications close at midnight on Sunday, 2 July 2023 and should be emailed to recruitment@nga.gov.au.