I am an art historian, curator, writer, and now Emerita Curator of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Toi o Tāmaki. I have an MA in Italian and Art History. The latter was completed thanks to an Italian Government scholarship that allowed me to study in Florence for 7 months in 1992. From 1998 to 2019 I worked for 21 years at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, latterly as Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art. In 2016, I was Craig Hugh Smyth Fellow at the Harvard Centre for Renaissance Art, Villa I Tatti, Florence, researching Italian works on paper in New Zealand Public Collections. From 2014 to 2019 I worked on the Frances Hodgkins Project at Auckland Art Gallery, producing an exhibition and  subsidiary book Finding Frances Hodgkins, while co-producing the exhibition catalogue Frances Hodgkins - European Journeys, and the Frances Hodgkins online catalogue raisonné http://completefranceshodgkins.com/. I am currently working on a biography of James Tannock Mackelvie.

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