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:
Senior Curator since 2007
1999–2007 Curator of Contemporary Art at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
2000–5 Editor of the journal Landfall.

Recent Exhibitions:
Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2011, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2011
De-Building, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2011
Roger Boyce: The Illustrated History of Painting, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2010
Brought to Light: A New View of the Collection (with Peter Vangioni, Felicity Milburn, Ken Hall and Jennifer Hay), onwards, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2009 and ongoing
The Naked and the Nude, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2009-10
Gembox, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2009
United We Fall: Sara Hughes, an Outer Spaces project, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2009
Ronnie van Hout: Who Goes There, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2009
Wunderbox, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2008-9
Travelling Light, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2008
Outer Spaces (with Peter Vangioni, Felicity Milburn and Jennifer Hay), an ongoing programme of art in non-gallery spaces, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2008
Darryn George: Pulse, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2008
A Constant Flow of Light, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2008
Daniel Crooks: everywhere instantly, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, 2008
The Secret Life of Paint (including Daniel von Sturmer, Guy Benfield, Graham Fletcher, Judy Millar, Julia Morison, Seung Yul Oh, Michael Morley, Miranda Parkes, Rohan Wealleans, Simon Ingram), Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2007
Big Talk: Kay Rosen, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2004
I've Abandoned Me: Ronnie van Hout, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2002
Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2001

Justin is writer and presenter of How to Look at a Painting, a twelve-part documentary series produced by Desert Road Television and screened on TVNZ7

Recent Publications:
2011
Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2011, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
De-Building, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
'Shyness and Sculpture: Ron Mueck's Inner Worlds', Ron Mueck, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico
'The Object I am Thinking Of', Playing with Fire, Auckland Studio Potters Society, Auckland
2010
'Jenny Holzer', Art & Australia, vol.47, no.4, winter, p.684
'In the Air: Recent work by Shane Cotton', Shane Cotton: To and Fro, Rossi and Rossi, London
2009
'Taking the Weight' and 'A Man in Time', Ron Mueck, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, pp.55–9 and 101–5
'The Weight of Paper', Ricky Swallow: Watercolours, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, pp.33–6
'Somewhere Else', Inner Landscapes: 15 New Zealand Artists with Canterbury Connections, Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, pp.9–17
Thirty-one entries in Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
'Changing Space' (interview with Judy Millar), Judy Millar: You You, Me Me, Kerber Verlag Bielefed, pp.130–5
'Christian Capurro', Erased, Art Gallery of New South Wales, p.18
'Peter Robinson' (review of Snow Ball Blind Time), Frieze, March, pp.154–6
'Uncommon Ground', Terra Firma Incognita, Peter Wegner Studio in association with GRIFFIN, Santa Monic, CA and Galerie m, Buchum, Germany
2008
'Aberhart's Magic Light', The Press, Christchurch, 9 July, p.D1
'Fred Sandback' (review), Art & Australia, vol.46, no.2, summer
'Mixed Feelings: Francis Upritchard's 1970s Show', Art & Australia, vol.46, no.1, spring, pp.96–103
'Throwing Voices', Artlink, vol.28, no.4, p.60
'Against the Current', Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand, Art and Australia, Sydney
'Hovering Suspense' (on Shane Cotton's Takarangi), The Press, Christchurch, 2 January, p.D1
'First Thing', Geoffrey Thornley: White Line, Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington, unpaginated
'One Big Painting' (on Colin McCahon's Victory Over Death 2), The Press, Christchurch, 5 March, p.D4
'This Melting Way: A Conversation with Judy Millar', Art New Zealand 126, autumn, pp.35–41
'Top Stairs Sculpture' (on Michael Parekowhai's My Sister, My Self), The Press, Christchurch, 30 April, p.D1
'Tough Love: Yvonne Todd and the Aesthetics of Meanness', Art and Australia, autumn
2007
'Away from their names: Daniel von Sturmer', Venice Biennale 2007 Australia: Susan Norrie, Daniel von Sturmer, Callum Morton, Australia Council for the Arts in Association with Miegunyah Press, pp.62–75
'Bill Hammond', 'Judy Millar', 'Yvonne Todd' and 'Rohan Wealleans', Speculation, Clouds and JRP Ringier, Auckland, pp.195, 216, 222, 230
'Bullrush: The Art of Rohan Wealleans', Let's Make the Fire Turn Green, Hocken Library and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, pp.4–11
'Eden Box' and 'Stanley Spencer', Modern Britain 1900–1960: Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand Collections, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, pp.154–5, 223
'Image Ridden' (on Richard Killeen's The Temptation of St Anthony), Art and Australia, summer, p.208
Reboot: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery