Curatorial Fellow | UK

Vivmar and Harry M. Weinrebe Curatorial Fellow

The post is a twenty-two month traineeship, designed to introduce someone who has a good scholarly art historical background in European painting and with an interest in pursuing a museum career to the responsibilities of curatorship in a national collection. We are recruiting for two posts.

The Curatorial Fellow will have the opportunity to be involved in a full range of curatorial practice and to gain experience of a variety of curatorial issues, from the historic to the contemporary.

We are looking for individuals who are versatile and adaptable, and who can work on 16th-century Renaissance painting as well as post-1800 painting.

MAIN TASKS AND ACTIVITIES

Assisting with the care, display, research, management and interpretation of the National Gallery’s collection:

Each Curatorial Fellow will spend 11 months with the 1500-1600 section of the curatorial team, and 11 months with the post-1800 section of the curatorial team.

They will receive training in the care, display, research and interpretation of the collection, in dealing with acquisitions, loans, rehangs and redisplays, in curating exhibitions and the delivery of public and digital programmes, in dealing with public enquiries and ensuring collection information is up to date, in liaising with an essential range of museum functions such as art handling, framing, conservation and scientific research, as well as communications, exhibitions and education teams, in working with national and international partners, and in acting as a Gallery courier when accompanying paintings in the UK and abroad.

DIVERSITY AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

Essential:

To value and respect your colleagues and members of the public regardless of their background and to cooperate and to contribute to measures introduced by the Gallery to ensure equality of opportunity and diversity.

ORGANISATIONAL ROLE
The postholder will report to a senior curator.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential:

• Postgraduate degree in the History of Art or a related area
• Knowledge of the field of European painting 1500-1600 or 1800-1900 at either first degree level or postgraduate degree level or equivalent

Desirable:

• A doctorate or a Master’s degree (incorporating a substantial thesis involving original research) in the field of European painting 1500-1600 or 1800-1900
• An understanding of and an aptitude to work on painting from two different historical periods (16th-century and post-1800)

EXPERIENCE and KNOWLEDGE

Experience

Essential:

• Experience of undertaking postgraduate research in the field of the history of European art 1500-1600 or post-1800

Desirable:

• Demonstrable interest in curatorial work
• Interest in how the Gallery communicates the results of its research to a broad public

Knowledge

Essential:

• Ability to carry out independent scholarly research to a very high standard

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