Function:
Collaboration with artists, creation of exhibitions, development of the collection, publishing and lecturing on the art on display, and, with the curatorial team, shaping the overall programme.

Positions Held:
Curator since 1998
1998 2001 Curator, McDougall Contemporary Art Annex

Qualifications:
1992 1995 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Art History and English, University of Canterbury

Recent Exhibitions:
Seraphine Pick, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2009
Julia Morison: a loop around a loop, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2006 (co-curated with Justin Paton)
Wonderland, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2005 (co-curated with Justin Paton)
Home/Ground, SCAPE Art & Industry Urban Arts Biennial '04, Christchurch, 2004
Coming Home in the Dark, 2004 (co-curated with Peter Vangioni)
Bing Dawe: Acts of Enquiry, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 1999

Recent Publications:
2010
Under Pressure: Raewyn Atkinson's Deep Time #26, Art New Zealand #136, summer 10/11, pp.49-53
2009
Séraphine Pick, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
'Katharina Jaeger: Holding the Dark', World Sculpture News, vol.15, no.4, autumn, p.56-9
Ross Gray: Resonance, SoFA, Christchurch, unpaginated
'Pauline Rhodes: King Tides Rising', Physics Room Annual 2008, pp.18-19
2006
'Luise Fong: Girl Interrupted' in Art New Zealand 119, pp.50-53
2005
Essay in Joanna Braithwaite: Wonderland, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, pp.28-40
Designs on Antarctica, Objectspace, unpaginated
2004
Journeys and Decisions: Morgan Jones, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, pp.9-28
Soundings: Ross Gray, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, unpaginated
Tony Bond: Squeeze, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu Te Puna o Waiwhetu, unpaginated
Home/Ground, SCAPE Art & Industry Urban Arts Biennial '04, Christchurch, 2004, 14-16
2003
Te Puawai o Ngai Tahu: An exhibition of twelve contemporary Ngai Tahu artists (artist texts), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, pp.44-85
Essays in The Allure of Light : Turner to Cézanne : European masterpieces from the National Gallery of Victoria, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Essay in John Freeman-Moir (ed.), Walking Through: Graham Bennett's Reasons for Voyaging, Southwark Publishing, pp.23-31
Essay in 19th Century Painting and Sculpture in the International Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Victoria
Essays in The Collections, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
2002
Refugees: Margaret Hudson Ware, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, unpaginated
2001
'Building Sites: Hotere's Sculpitecture' in Landfall 201, University of Otago Press, pp.89-97
Sculpture in the Gardens 2001/2, Robert McDougall Art Gallery in association with the Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Parts, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, unpaginated
Menagerie, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, unpaginated
2000
Canterbury Painting in the 1990s, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, pp.3-22
Business As Usual: Michael Reed, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, unpaginated
Still Lies: 17 Paintings by Michael Shepherd, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, unpaginated
Uneasy Spaces, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, unpaginated
'Pauline Rhodes: Ziggurat 2000' in Art & Industry Contemporary Visual; Arts Festival catalogue, p.40
Pauline Rhodes: In-between, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, pp.1-11
Essay in A Concise History of Art in Canterbury, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, pp.67-69