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Claire Watson - Australia
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Curator: Claire Watson: Victoria, Australia
Claire Watson is the curator at Gippsland Art Gallery in Victoria, Australia:
www.wellington.vic.gov.au/gallery. Born in 1977, Claire has considerable experience in curating collaborative projects across distance. Recently, she was awarded an arts grant for a collaborative project titled “Hockey Plot: Negotiations between contemporary artists from Gippsland and Melbourne.” Hockey Plot (previously titled Interspacing) will tour three galleries in Melbourne and regional Victoria. Metropolitan artists were paired up with rural based artists to create new collaborative work. The project secured funding from Arts Victoria, Next Wave and Can Inc.
Claire has a 1st class Honours in Fine Art and a Graduate Certificate in Public Art, both from RMIT University. She is currently a Master Candidate at Monash University in Fine Art. She has exhibited projects in the snowy slopes of Victoria, in derelict buildings and on the shores of the Black Sea in Turkey. She is currently an artist-in residence at Saksala ArtRadius.
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CURRICULUM VITAE: CLAIRE WATSON
EMPLOYMENT (SELECTED)
Curator:
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale 2007 – ongoing
• Exhibition Management, Design, Curatorship and Installation
• Advanced research skills and essay writing skills
• Identified and secured appropriate funding for various arts projects
• Catalogue Management & Design
• Supervise gallery staff, volunteers and technicians
• Coordinate community arts program including outreach exhibitions at Maffra Exhibition Space and Entertainment Centre
• Conservation and Collection Management
Independent Curator/ Gallery Assistant: 2005-2008
Area: Contemporary Art Spaces, West Space, Next Wave Festival,
Cowwarr Art Space, RMIT
Project inception and project management.
• Identified and secured funding.
• Developed catalogue essays and curatorial themes.
• Designed and published catalogues.
Curatorship and installation of art exhibitions.
• Gallery Administration
Curator / Arts Project Leader: Burrinja 2001-2005
• Coordinated and facilitated arts programs including budget management.
• Supervised and trained volunteers.
• Curatorial duties and installation of art exhibitions.
• Assisted in maintaining HACC funding.
• Provided evaluation reports.
• Media liaison for promotion of shows.
Arts Project Leader/Community Artist: Knox City Council 1993-2000
• Developed and facilitated arts programs for the local community.
• Budget management
• Workshop facilitation and promotion
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Art Candidate, Monash University 2007- ongoing
Graduate Certificate Public Art, RMIT 2005
1st Class Honours Fine Art (Painting), RMIT 2000
Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) with Distinction, RMIT 1996-1999
GRANTS / ACHIEVEMENTS
Postgraduate Travel Grant (Finland) Monash University 2008
Arts Development Presentation Grant (Touring Exhibition) Arts Victoria 2007
Regional Emerging Curator’s Grant (Touring Exhibition) Next Wave 2007
Curatorial Internship (Public Galleries Association of Victoria) National Gallery of Victoria 2007
Arts Grant (Street Fair: Gippsland Art Gallery) Regional Arts Fund 2007
Community Arts Grant (Public Art Publication) RMIT University 2005
Arts Grant (Public Installation) Sile Municipality, Turkey 2005
PUBLICATIONS: CATALOGUE ESSAYS/ REVIEWS
From Frederick McCubbin to Charles McCubbin – Catalogue Essay 2008
Virtue of the Void: Nadine Lineham – Catalogue Essay: Gippsland Art Gallery 2008
Truth + Beauty: Peter James Smith – Catalogue Essay: Gippsland Art Gallery 2008
At Play with Paint: Tim Wright – Curator’s Notes: Maffra Exhibition Space 2007
Flooded In: Local artists respond to the recent Gippsland Floods –Curator’s Notes: Maffra Exhibition Space 2007
Snow Show - Catalogue Essay, First Site Gallery, RMIT 2007
Fluoresce - Catalogue Essay, Area Contemporary Art Space 2006
Istanbul Biennial - Review, Avatar: Public Art Zine 2006
Weft – Catalogue Essay, Hardwick Building, RMIT 2005
Investigating Space, Full Haus, Cover Article, RMIT Arts Union Quarterly Magazine 2005
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see also the web pages of Claire Watson about her
artist-inresidence
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Arts Council Finland
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AllaprimA foundation the Netherlands
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AREFS taide ja kulttuuri ry
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ALLAPRIMA MUSEUM