Description
Curator: British Prints and Drawings (1775-1885) Prints and Drawings Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Permanent £44,719 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 8th October
The Museum is seeking an enthusiastic and knowledgeable curator to oversee its outstanding collection of British prints and drawings by artists born between 1775 and 1885. This includes iconic works by J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, Beatrix Potter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and James McNeill Whistler, as well as the vibrant ephemera of Sarah Sophia Banks.
The successful candidate will lead research, exhibitions, and publications related to the collection, while enhancing its online presence through improved records and imaging. Additional responsibilities include engaging audiences of all kinds, and support public enquiries, acquisitions, fundraising, and Study Room activities. This role also plays a key part in departmental administration and contributes to the Museum's wider Masterplan.
This is a rare opportunity to shape public understanding of a rich period in British art and expand access to one of the world's most significant collections of 19th-century works on paper.
- Sound knowledge of the techniques and history of graphic arts, particularly all aspects of print making.
- Relevant experience of being involved as a curator in organising an exhibition or a permanent gallery display that has involved liaising with a variety of different parties.
- A degree in art history, history or equivalent.
- Ability to work successfully as part of a team and to be an excellent communicator.
- Museum curatorial experience that has demonstrated a flair for research, including some publication history in a relevant field.
- An ability to manage museum projects (exhibition, new gallery display etc).
- Experience of presentations in seminars, lectures, gallery talks etc.
- To assist with public and scholarly enquiries relating to the collection.
- To share specialist knowledge in an enthusiastic, engaging and inspiring fashion to broad audiences as and when is necessary (for the public, patrons, school or university groups, and colleagues from other institutions).
- To maintain, update and improve the online records of around 26,000 drawings and more than 145,000 prints including some of the Museum's most important British holdings by artists as well as the majority of Sarah Sophia Banks' extensive collection of Georgian ephemera.
- To devise exhibitions wholly or in part derived from the British collection under their curatorial care.
- Be involved in fund raising and provide curatorial support to the Museum's corporate and private patrons and supporters.
- To play a full part in everyday Departmental administration and participate in museum-wide projects and activities.
- Other duties as assigned.