
Samantha H
Art Historian and Curator
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Curator
Hamilton • Tiempo completo
Nov 2024 - Nov 2026 • 2 yrs
Curated and delivered 25 exhibitions, with responsibility for the full exhibition process: research, concept development, object selection, budgeting, interpretation, installation and public programming. Managed a collection of 10,000 artworks, undertaking provenance research, collection valuation, acquisitions and collections policy development. Independently produced scholarly catalogue essays, exhibition texts, interpretive panels, object labels and educational content for diverse audiences. Delivered lectures, gallery talks, artist interviews and specialist tours. Worked across art history, decorative arts, contemporary art and museum collections. Key skills: Art history research, exhibition development, curatorial writing, catalogue essays, museum consultancy, provenance research, collections management, interpretation and editing.
Research Officer
Australia • Tiempo parcial
Mar 2021 - Jun 2024 • 3 yrs 3 mos
At Australian National University. Conducted specialist art-historical and archival research for a major research project on cultural diplomacy, diplomatic gift exchange and material culture during the reign of Louis XIV. Contributed to a searchable, multimodal research database containing more than 15,000 entries, documenting diplomatic objects, provenance and historical relationships. Specialist knowledge of early modern European history, French history, Persian art, diplomatic history, material culture and archival research. Key skills: Academic research, archival research, art history, historical fact-checking, scholarly editing, bibliography and referencing, provenance research and research databases.
Collections Coordinator
University of Melbourne • Tiempo completo
Aug 2023 - Feb 2024 • 6 mos
Managed documentation and collections information for a university collection comprising 4,500 objects and 6,000 digital assets. Created, edited and audited collection records, improved data quality and consistency, and supported digitisation in accordance with museum documentation standards and digital rights requirements. Developed documentation workflows, procedures and user guides. Experienced in collections databases, object cataloguing, metadata, controlled vocabularies and digital collections management. Key skills: Museum cataloguing, object research, collections documentation, database management, metadata, digitisation, data quality and archival research.