The Biennale of Sydney:
1991-1993 
Artistic Director (on 50% leave from the Art Gallery of NSW)

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
1981-1984  
Assistant Director - Professional

Wollongong City Gallery, NSW, Australia
1978-1981  
Director

Honorary Positions
 
Current positions:
Treasurer for AICA (international association of art critics Australian branch) since 2001
Member of the Board of Biennale of Sydney since 2000
Member of the Council for the Power Foundation, Sydney University since 2001
Member of Executive of Art Association of Australia and NZ since 1997
Assessor Australian Research Council Grants in the category of Fine Arts since 1995

Current project 2006-2007
Anselm Kiefer an exhibition for White Cube and Royal Academy London January 2007 & AGNSW May 2007
 
The Art Gallery of New South Wales Projects:
2006
Mike Parr The Beuys Tree Project, AMERIKA AGNSW May 2006
 
2005-6
Self Portrait: Renaissance to contemporary tracing evolving modes of representation and understanding of self hood from the inception of the genre to the late 20th century. National Portrait Gallery London October 2005 and AGNSW February 2006. Co-curated with Joanna Woodall at Courtauld Institute London.
Wolfgang Laib Balnaves Foundation project 2005
Jeppe Hein, Neon Wall 2005
 
2004
Jon Rose Fence project at AGNSW
Mike Parr and Adam Geczy The Mass Psychology of Fascism AGNSW
   
2002
Ernesto Neto project & commission at AGNSW
Tracey Emin project AGNSW
 
2000
AGNSW International fun, fun five, an exhibition of five artists from Africa 
 
1998-1999
TRACE Inaugural Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art UK, September 1999
 
1998
AGNSW TRANSIT an exhibition for SOCOG a Sea Change
AGNSW Ken Unsworth, jointly curated with Michael Wardell
   
1997
AGNSW BODY, an exhibition which develops a view of realism in modern art as it is manifested through works relating to the body. 13 September to 16 November 1997
AGNSW Tony Cragg, toured to Brisbane and Wellington NZ
 
1995
AGNSW Fred Cress, Paintings 1988-1995 - touring to 3 regional galleries
AGNSW Through a Glass Darkly, The Inaugural Guinness Contemporary Art Project
AGNSW Peter Hill Superfictions, (installation)
Africus 95
Johannesburg Biennale Mistaken Identities, a component of Africus 95
   
1994
AGNSW Alex Rizkalla, The Accursed Share, (installation)
AGNSW Edgar Heap of Birds (residency and installation)
AGNSW Mike Parr, The Bridge, (performance for sculpture and choir)
AGNSW Derek Kreckler, White Pointer, (sound installation)
AGNSW Julie Rrap, Rise and Fall, (installation)

The Biennale of Sydney:
 
1992/93
The Boundary Rider, The 9th Biennale of Sydney 50% secondment
 
1991
AGNSW Three Installations (project show)
AGNSW Anish Kapoor (residency and installation)
AGNSW Danny Matthys (installation)
AGNSW Wim Delvoye (installation)
AGNSW Bette Mifsud, Mute (installation)
AGNSW Arthur Wicks, Machina Persona (project show)
 
1990
AGNSW Ulrike Rosenback, Zenhocher energetisches Phanomen, (residency and installation)
AGNSW Christo (Retrospective) - joint curator
AGNSW Denis Del Favero, Diario per una Vita Nuova, a multimedia installation for Carnivale
AGNSW Patrick Heron, (residency and exhibition)
AGNSW Steven Campbell, (residency and installation)
AGNSW Tony Cragg, (residency and installation for The Biennale of Sydney)
AGNSW Richard Wentworth (residency and installation for The Biennale of Sydney)
 
1989
AGNSW Australian Perspecta, (A biennial survey of Australian art) jointly curated with Assistant Curator, Victoria Lynn.
AGNSW Yellow House (reconstruction and retrospective exhibition)
AGNSW Peter Cripps, Namelessness, performance and installation - a collaboration with the University of Tasmania
AGNSW Paula Dawson, Eidola Suite (installation)
AGNSW Antony Gormley, A Field for the Art Gallery of NSW and A Room for the Great Australian Desert (residency and installation)
AGNSW Mindscapes, (thematic project show)
AGNSW Michael Johnson (selected retrospective) and tour to 4 venues; assisted by Victoria Lynn
AGNSW Living Paintings, (performance) - in conjunction with the Festival of Perth
AGNSW Alison Wilding (residency and installation)
 
1988
AGWA, Frankfurt and Stuttgart Kunstvereins Bicentennial Perspecta
AGNSW Stelarc, Amplified Body Third Hand (performance and multimedia installation) assisted by Victoria Lynn
AGNSW Colin Offord, Lyre Bird Suite, (performance)
   
1987
AGNSW Australian Perspecta (a Biennial of Australian art)
AGNSW Surface for Reflexion part 1 and Surface for Reflexion part 2, A two part project show and tour to 4 venues
AGNSW Dennis del Favero, Linea del Fuoco, (installation) for Carnivale
 
1986
Five Video Installations for the First Australian Video Festival
 
1985
AGNSW Australian Perspecta, (a biennial survey of Australian art)
a selected component toured to 8 venues in Australia; and four components were commissioned from guest curators)
AGNSW The British Show, jointly curated with Bill Wright, toured to 5 venues in Australia and New Zealand
AGNSW Project 48, a week of performance works
AGNSW Funf Vom Funften, organised the Australian tour of the exhibition curated by René Block for Daad Gallery, Berlin
 
1984
AGNSW Goji Hamada, Landscape Chromasome and Magic (performance and installation) - in conjunction with Continuum 1
AGNSW Jon Rose, Go Where From Some To (performance)

Art Gallery of Western Australia:
 
1984
Form-Image-Sign, a Festival of Perth exhibition
Media Space (installation)
Performance programme for the Festival of Perth 1984
 
1983
Presence and Absence, a Festival of Perth exhibition of 5 installations on this theme.
Audio Visual Art in Western Australia, exhibition and performances
Western Australian Paperworks, exh. cat., AGWA
Marina and Ulay, Gold found by the Artists, (performance)
Jon Rose, (performance)
Conference for the Festival of Perth
 
1982
Twelve Australian Painters, exhibition and tour to Queensland Art Gallery and Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart

Wollongong City Gallery:
 
1978-1981
Impressionism in Europe and Australia
Michael Craig-Martin, (installations curated by John Buckley and toured by the Art Galleries Directors' Council)
Bill Brown Survey
Massim artifacts, a collaboration with Harry Beren and tour to the Museum of Victoria.
Awesome Universe (Astronomical Photography), and tour to the Museum of Victoria and NSW regional centres.
NSW Young Contemporaries and tour to regional galleries
John Davis Survey (installations)
Ian Gentle Survey (installations)
Michael Snape Project Show
Bill Peascod 1950-1980
Paul Higgs Project show
8 x 7, a group project show, Norrie, Barker, Hawke.
Fred Braat (project for the Festival of Wollongong)
Jim Denley and Peter Ready, Music Sculpture, part 1 & 2.
Colin Offord and Ronaldo, (performance)

Selected Publications:
 
2006
Lisa Roet review for Art Monthly Australia, March 2006
Performing Bodies Art and Australia March 2006, vol 43 No 3 author.
In progress:
Contemporary Collection Handbook AGNSW. Contributing two chapters with artists entries. To be launched September 2006.
Twenty, Sherman gallery 20th anniversary book to be launched April 2006 interview with William Wright.
Photography Handbook AGNSW chapter on Bauhaus
 
2005
Catalogue for Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary NPG London and AGNSW Sydney. Co-editor and contributing author
Inside Australia by Anthony Gormley, Thames and Hudson London. Contributing author
Wolfgang Laib the third Balnaves sculpture project AGNSW catalogue editor and author
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, contributing author, University gallery at FGine arts centre, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Kunsthalle Fridericanum Kassel.
Interview with Jim Samios The Middle East Times issue No 186-187 April 2005
 
2004
Imagining the void a feature article for Linq volume 31 No.2, James cook University Queensland ISSN 0817-458x
Montien Boonma a review of the exhibition at the Asia Society NY published in Art and Australia Vol 42, No2.
Ken Unsworth a review of his exhibition at Boutwell Draper in Art & Australia vol 42, No 2.
Contributing author, Tracking shot, Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, Published by Arte Distrito 4 S.A. Madrid ISBN 84-933422-6-2.
Terror of the void a published paper in RLA conference proceedings The Dark side RLA press 2004 ISBN 1 86487 623 9
The Body-The Nude for the book Il Nudo, Artificio Skira Firenze Italy ISBN 88-8491 832-4
   
2003
Incidents catalogue essay for Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky AGNSW
Ken Unsworth catalogue essay Boutwell Draper gallery
Contributing author to Knot Naught: Alasdair MacLennan, a retrospective published by Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast
 
2002
Co-author of Brian Blanchflower From the Generative Eye: Paintings 1990 - 2001 catalogue 5/4/02 Curtin University Perth,
University of Technology Sydney Contributions to the UTS collection catalogue
AGNSW Interview with Richard Grayson on the Biennale of Sydney for Look magazine April
COFA Uni NSW web publication of Conducting Bodies launch address
AGNSW Ernesto Neto catalogue entry
 
2001
Boutwell Draper Gallery Sydney catalogue text for Richard Goodwin exhibition,
AGNSW Reflections of Venice article in October issue of Look magazine
 
2000-2001
Gilbert and George an article for Look Magazine AGNSW
various articles and interviews for international journals including Arconoticas Madrid.
 
1999
The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary International Art Editor and major contributor to the catalogue Trace.
 
1998
In the public Domain, an article for TAASA Review Vol 7 No 3 Sept 1998
Bookman Press Melbourne & AGNSW, Editor and contributor to Ken Unsworth a survey of projects 1975-1998.
Art and Australia Review of Pictura Britanica September 1998.
 
1997
Quelles Memoires Pour L'Art contemporain? Presses Universitaires de Rennes isbn 2-86847-270-2
Hannover Kunstverein ,Catalogue introduction on Dr Christiane Mobus.
Bookman Press, Melbourne and The Art Gallery of NSW Editor and author BODY exh. cat. September 1997. Awarded the inaugural Power Bequest prize for the best book of art history and theory through the AAANZ AGM in Wellington NZ December 1999.
The Art Gallery of NSW Editor and author. Tony Cragg exhibition catalogue
The Art Gallery of NSW Introduction. Material Immaterial exh. cat.
 
1996
Bede Gallery, Jarrow, England Introduction. A Sense of Place, exh. cat.,.
"The Biennale of Sydney", Poliester, Mexico City vol 5 no 16 Fall 1996.
 
1995
Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa "Mistaken Identities", Africus, exh. cat.,.
AGNSW Fred Cress paintings 1988-1995, exh. cat., and 3 touring venues.
AGNSW Through a Glass Darkly, exh. cat.
Various articles for Look, Art Gallery Society of NSW, 1994-1995 But is it art?; Yves Klein; Anselm Kiefer; Reflections on the Neil Manton lecture - Giles Auty; Women artists from the collection; "Richard Goodwin"; "Through a Glass Darkly"; "Fred Cress".
 
1992-1993
Biennale of Sydney The Boundary Rider, , exh. cat., AGNSW and other venues.
Various articles and interviews re: Biennale of Sydney for: Eyeline; Photofile; ;Artlink; Flashart; Kunstforum; Parkett and local news media.
Introduction in Ed. Christopher Allen, Richard Goodwin, Sydney: Oliver Freeman Editions, 1992, pp.8-9.
 
1991
Chicago Art Fair Catalogue essay. John Beard,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art catalogue essay. Nigel Helyer,
AGNSW, Introduction. 3 Installations, exh. cat.
 
1990
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Let Them Eat Cake, on the work of Victor Majzner,
AGNSW Introduction., The Yellow House 1970-72, exh. cat.
Craftsman's House Sydney "The Survival of Realism in the Avant Garde", Recent Australian Painting 1990.
AGNSW Introduction. British Print making of the 1960ies and 1970ies, exh. cat.
 
1989
AGNSW Introduction. Australian Perspecta 1989, exh. cat.
AGNSW Foreword. Michael Johnson Paintings 1968-1988, exh. cat.
Interview, Eyeline, March 1989, # eight, pp.8-11.
AGNSW Mindscapes and John Beard, Mindscapes, exh. cat.,
AGNSW A Viewpoint 1981-84, Brian Blanchflower Works 1961-1989, exh. cat., , pp.73-81.
 
1988
Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane catalogue essay. Mike Parr, exh. cat.
Biennale of Sydney catalogue essay. Hilarie Mais, exh. cat.
Biennale of Sydney - preview in Craft Australia, 1988
Catalogue essay. Contemporary Australian Art to China, on the work of Brian Blanchflower, 1988.
University of Tasmania, introduction to Namelessness, exh. cat. for work of Peter Cripps,
Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery Introduction, Arthur Wicks Project, exh. cat.,.
Chameleon, Hobart catalogue essay. Dreams and Other Signs, exh. cat. for work of Brad Buckley,.
 
1987
AGNSW The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, exh. cat.
Craft Australia Two Realms - Ken Unsworth Sculpture, , Spring 1985/3, pp.49-51.
Craft Australia Bob Law in The British Show 1985-86, Summer 1986/4, pp.84-85.
Australian and International Art Monthly Anselm Kiefer, Glaube Hoffnung Liebe, July 1987, No. 2, p.11.
Performance Space The Intruder, an introduction to Euan Upstan, Production, , 1987.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation reviews of the following books, New Art II; The Art of New York; British Art Since 1900
 
1986
AGNSW Surface for Reflexion, exh. cat.
AGNSW Introduction, Bronwyn Oliver, exh. cat. Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney.
AGNSW Introduction, Robert Jacks, exh. cat., Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney.
The Biennale of Sydney, Anne Graham, Origins Originality + Beyond, , exh. cat., AGNSW, p.130.
Australian Video Festival catalogue essay.
Macquarie Gallery, Sydney Introduction, John Beard, exh. cat.
 
1985
AGNSW Introduction. The selection of the Exhibition and artist entries, The British Show, exh. cat., , pp.11-16
AGNSW Introduction, and Mainly Sculpture, Australian Perspecta 1985, exh. cat., p. 5 and pp.17-67.
Artscribe UK, Means of Escape, Steven Willats, 1985.
Daad Gallery, Berlin Introduction., 5/5 Funf Vom Funften, exh. cat., , pp.6-17.
 
1984
AGWA Form. Image. Sign, Biannual Survey of Contemporary Australian Art No 3, exh. cat.,.
 
1983
AGWA, catalogue essay. Presence and Absence - Biannual Survey of Contemporary Australian Art no 1 Installation, exh. cat., pp.3-6.
Festival of Perth introduction, Henry Moore Major lithographs and Etchings 1969-1982, exh. cat. AGWA, in association with Galerie Dusseldorf.
AGWA introduction, Audio Visual Installations in Western Australia, exh. cat.,.
AGWA Stanley Spencer. Christ in the Wilderness, exh. cat.
AGWA Twelve Australian Painters, exh. cat.

Public Lectures and Conference Papers:
  
2006
The History of the collection AGNSW, NSW Teacher's orientation day. 21/4/06
Boundary Rider and Trace at Cofa UNSW 2/5/06
Self Portraits: Renaissance to Contemporary guest lectures in addition to papers given at AGNSW symposium and to special groups: Newcastle University, Queensland University, Sydney University, National art school Sydney
Conversation with Mike Parr MCA in association with the Parr print exhibition
 
2005
Performing the self National Portrait Gallery London, Self Portrait Symposium, November 2005
Interpretation or (re)presentation AAANZ annual conference Sydney University
Presentation on Wolfgang Laib at ACCA Melbourne 1st June 2005
Collection policy and process paper for National art school 10/8/05
Aesthetics of Engagement AGNSW contemporary series
Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary Wollongong Region Gallery 18th May
2005 repeated at Newcastle University on 27th July 2005
Contemporary museum design Launceston University Tasmania 6th April 2005
Presentation on Stieg Persson at Depot Gallery Sydney 10th May 2005
Presentation on John Davis at Sherman gallery 7th May 2005
 
2004
1961 and all that the aesthetics of engagement paper for AAANZ annual conference Auckland December 2004
Changing role of Curator paper and discussion at USYD for Museums Australia programme.29th September 2004
Conservation and Interpretation Lecture at USYD 15th September 2004
Designing contemporary museums Lecture for Architecture faculty USYD 9th August 2005
Performing Bodies Lecture at cofa UNSW 23rd August 2004
Aesthetics of engagement AGNSW contemporary series
Gustave Courbet down and dirty - political revolutionary? AGNSW Society
Francis Bacon Contemporary series AGNSW
Survey exhibitions a forum at Newcastle Region Gallery
Self portraits in the making colloquium at NPG London
 
2003
Kiefer/ Beuys at National art school and at Newcastle University
Biennale Strategies for National Art School post Grads
Interpretation and conservation of contemporary art for Usyd
Aboriginal art into the mainstream ANU CCR
Bonnard lecture programme AGNSW
Global art after 1989 at the symposium for Echigo Tsumari Triennial Japan.
Updated version of Global art for Istanbul Biennial.
Performing Bodies at COFA UNSW
Floor talk at MCA on Fernando Cardosa
Gericault and Delacroix sketching toward Modernism AGNSW

2002
Newcastle Region gallery public address on the collection display "Mindscapes"
Curtin University Brian Blanchflower Sensing the void
AGNSW Evolving collections and their display and interpretation
AGNSW Beuys, Kiefer, Clemente the expressive image
Newcastle University occasional address at 2002 graduation ceremony.
AGNSW International Biennales
Newcastle Region Gallery Biennale strategies at Museum to street conference.
University of Sydney Dept Art History, Collection conservation and interpretation
University of Sydney Museum Studies dept Collection policy and strategies.
Biennale of Sydney chair AICA forum.
 
2001
Newcastle University Permeable membranes a paper for Conference on painting.
AAANZ AGM Melbourne The Future of contemporary collections
Cofa Uni NSW Australian art to the World 
Cofa Uni NSW Collections management
Cofa Uni NSW Exhibitions management
Chaired AAANZ Conducting Bodies conference committee and a session of the conference.
Chulalankhorn Univerity Museum studies Collections Management
Chulalankhorn Univerity Museum studies Exhibitions management
 
2000
RLA Sydney University Horizon transcendent visions Turner to Turrell, also versions at Newcastle University and Broken Hill Region Gallery
AGNSW society lecture Post war German Art and Newcastle University,
 
1999
Victoria University Wellington NZ. Interpretation or (Re)presentation, documenting artists intentions in Museum collections, a paper for AAANZ annual conference. John Moore's university Liverpool. Trace, a paper for the conference of the Liverpool Biennial .
Liverpool University UK. The Index in 20th Century Art, The1999 Sydney Jones lecture at 
Chulalunkhorn University Bangkok, Trace, Lectures in preparation for The Liverpool Biennial, January 1999.
Series of lectures at Newcastle University, Trace, Body. April 1999.
 
1998
ICA, London, Liverpool Biennial, Trace, October 1998.
University of South Australia A Paradigm Shift in 20th Century Art, Lecture given at The Art Association of Australia conference September 1998
National Gallery of Australia Chair of seminar, and presented a paper on Anthropology and Art History, for CIMAM October 1998.
Tours and floor talks for Ken Unsworth, 2 October-15 November
AGNSW public lectures on Jacob Ruisdael, Van Gogh, The Legacy of the Readymade.
AGNSW Realism Through the Body, Post Graduate seminar.
John Moore's University, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool University Trace, lectures on my preparation for Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool. September 1998.
 
1997
AICA conference, Rennes, France Whose intellectual property? at the AGM
Lectures, radio and television interviews and floor talks for BODY, 13 September - 16 November 1997.
AGNSW Series of public lectures on Picasso, Vermeer, Klein.
Australian National University, chair of session and paper, "Anthropology and Art History", AAA annual conference, , October 2-3 1997.
 
1996
AGNSW Series of public lectures on Courbet and Duchamp.
 
1995
AGNSW series of three public lectures on Rembrandt; Stanley Spencer and Francis Bacon.
Johannesburg Art Centre S.A. Aboriginal art,
Johannesburg Africus museum Biennales - a survey, Conference for the Johannesburg Biennale.
ARX conference, Perth The New Internationalism, tested in the fire.
Victoria & Albert Museum London & Wittwatersrand University, RSA
Body, a work in progress.
 
1993
LaCaixa Barcelona Body/Not Body, Arts International Conference,
AGNSW British Art 1920-50, 1993.
Wittwatersrand University and University of Cape Town lecture title The Border
 
1991-92
University of Sydney The Boundary Rider. Lecture also given at: College of Fine Art, University of NSW; Sydney College of the Arts, University of Western Sydney, Nepean; Salec mink Lecture at the University of Western Australia; University of Tasmania; University of Newcastle; Griffith University; Julian Ashton School.
   
1989-1990
University of Sydney; Klein, Kounellis and Kapoor. Lecture also given at: College of Fine Arts, University of NSW; Sydney College of the Art, University of Western Sydney; Northern Rivers University; Orange Regional Gallery.
University of Sydney; Icarus, a myth for Post Modernism. Lecture also given at College of Fine Arts, University of NSW; Sydney College of the Arts, Braidwood Heritage Festival, NSW.