Art Historian - Curator - Writer
NEWS
CV
QUALIFICATIONS
MA Art Curatorship: 2012 – 2014, University of Melbourne (first-class honours)
BA (Hons.) Art History: 2006 – 2009, University of Trento, Italy (110/110 cum laude)
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, Albanian and French
EMPLOYMENT
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Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Director, April 2021 - ongoing
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Charles Darwin University, Adjunct Lecturer, October 2021 - ongoing
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Gibson’s: Consultant Art Researcher and Writer, September 2020 – March 2021
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Abazi Art Gallery: Co-Founder, Director, Consultant, April 2004 – June 2020
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Mossgreen: Head of Art & Research, October 2016 – January 2018; Deputy Director, Researcher & Art Specialist, March – October 2016; Researcher and Writer, February 2014 – October 2014
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Leonard Joel: Senior Researcher and Art Specialist, August 2014 – February 2016
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Claude Ullin Art (then High on Art): Gallery Manager, February – June 2011; August 2013 – December 2015
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Creative Victoria (then Arts Vicroria): Arts Development Program Advisory Panelist, April – November 2013
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Menzies Fine Art: Senior Art Specialist, January – August 2013
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Sotheby’s Australia: Administrator, March 2011 – January 2013; Art Handler,
January – March 2011
SELECTED LECTURES, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES
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Portraiture: a judge's perspective, Parliament House, Darwin, 6 December 2021 (speaker)
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Global Crime: Art and Antiquities, guest lecturer, Swinburne University, Melbourne, May 2020
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A Sunday Time With Us, Instagram Live interviews with Direcor Jamie Kastner; Actor Dushan Philips, May, 2020
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F-ART: Fakes, forgeries and fraud in the art market, Nerd Nite, The Howler, Melbourne,
June 2018 -
Curating the sunny south at the centre of empire: exhibitions of Australian art in London, Art and its Directions, AAANZ Conference, University of Western Australia, December 2017
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Artist in Conversation. A creative life: the Deborah Halpern Collection, public interview and exhibition opening, Melbourne, September 2016
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Art history and the world: careers in the commercial sector, University of Melbourne,
October 2014
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Postgraduate workshop in digital art history, Australian National University, Canberra, November 2015
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La sculpture occidentale dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, l’Ecole du Louvre, Paris, July 2012
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When Attitudes Become Form: How to Curate, West Space, Melbourne, June 2012
SELECTED VOLUNTEER WORK
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Arts NT, Register of Peers, February 2022 – ongoing
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Arts NT, Portrait of a Senior Territorian, Judge, November 2021
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NT Legal Aid Commission, Darwin, Know Your Rights Art Competition, Judge November 2021
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Coconut Studios, Darwin: Curatorial Assistant, November 2020
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Ian Potter Museum of Art: Museum Lab Blogger, April – October 2014
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Villa Alba Museum: Guide, June 2011 – July 2012
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Mini Print International Awards: Judge, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, 6 April 2012
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Associazione ARTtoRT: Co-Founder and Vice President, Italy, May 2008 – February 2010
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Heidi Museum of Modern of Art, Visitor Services Representative, July 2006 – September 2006