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Specialist Curatorial Advisor for Art Galleries and Museums

With her considerable knowledge of collection-building and the care and documentation of art works, Anne Kirker has successfully recommended many distinguished and varied acquisitions for the permanent collections at Queensland Art Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery and Te Papa Tongarewa/ National Museum of New Zealand.

She is a member of Museums Australia and she is an advisor on the visual arts sector for its quarterly journal.

She takes a keen interest in exhibitions and collection development of public and private organisations within metropolitan as well as regional contexts.

Valuer for the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program

Anne Kirker is an approved valuer for the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program for the following classes of property:

International (European, Asian and Pacific) prints, photographs and drawings – all periods. Australian art (non-indigenous) modern and contemporary in all media, including prints, drawings, photographs, paintings and sculpture.

Writer on the Visual Arts

Anne Kirker writes extensively on the visual arts in a lucid and informed manner. She contributes to scholarly books, catalogues and journals as much as to those for general readership.

Art Collection Advisor

With her extensive experience in the management, care and acquisition of prints, drawings and photographs (and art works in other media) in Australia and New Zealand, Anne is equipped to advise both public and private collectors.

University Examiner for Post-Graduate Degrees

Anne is regarded highly for her comprehensive knowledge of art history and its transformation over the past decade. She has examined Doctorate, M.A. and V.A. (Hons) candidates in art history and theory as well as studio practitioners at the following:

University of Sydney, Queensland College of Art/Griffith University (where she is Adjunct Associate Professor), Queensland University of Technology, Southern Cross University, University of Tasmania Art School, University of Canterbury and Otago Polytechnic School of Art, and University of Auckland, Dunedin, New Zealand, among other tertiary institutions.

Exhibition Curator

Anne Kirker is a pragmatist and an imaginative exhibition curator, able to deliver exhibitions of interest and significance to a broad audience. She is a “team player”, efficient and able to work within budget constraints.

Anne Kirker curates art exhibitions for public and private organisations and individuals and assists art collectors to build their collections. She also conducts workshops for the regional art museum sector on exhibition and collection development.

Projects include:

• Co-ordinator with Prawat Laucharoen, of Print Installation: temporary residency program in Manhattan (commencing Sept. 2010).
• Queensland Art Gallery
  Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (part of curatorial team for 1993,1996,1999,2002 events).
  
• Max Gimblett: The Language of Drawing 2002
  
• The Power to Move: Aspects of Australian Photography (co-curator with Clare Williamson) 1996
  
• FLUXUS and after…1993
  
• Being and Nothingness: Bea Maddock, Work from Three Decades (co-curator with Roger Butler) 1992

In total, she has curated over forty exhibitions and contributed essays to thirty-five others including Modern Britain, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2007, Cross/Section: The documentary photography of Charles Page, Horsham Regional Gallery 2007, survey exhibitions on women artists including Di Ffrench (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2009) and Christine Webster (Christchurch Art Gallery 2010).

Publication Record

Anne Kirker is the author of two substantial books, New Zealand Women Artists: A Survey of 150 Years, Craftsman House, 1993, and British Painting 1800-1990 in Australian and New Zealand Public Collections (co-authored with Peter Tomory), The Beagle Press, 1997.

She wrote and co-ordinated entries for the Australian and New Zealand component of Dictionary of Women Artists, Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 1997 and later wrote for Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Anne has written numerous essays and reviews for New Zealand and Australian journals, including Art New Zealand, Eyeline, Photofile, Art Monthly Australia, Art & Australia, Object, Craft Arts International, ART Asia Pacific, Artlink, Imprint, and Museums Australia Magazine.

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