DrAnna Lawrenson

Project Opportunities

Title: Museum and Gallery funding and administration

Summary of opportunity:

Research interests

• Exhibitions and curatorial theory and practice
• Museum and Gallery funding and administration
• Cultural property and museums
• Contemporary representations of Australian colonisation

Opportunity synopsis:

Dr Anna Lawrenson is interested in how the funding, history and administration of public museums and galleries influences their public offer in terms of brand, exhibitions and programs.

Anna's career has spanned critical museology and applied practice having worked in academia and the arts sector over a number of years. She has been a part of USYD’s Museum Studies, and now Museum and Heritage Studies, programs since 2010. Her background is in art history, and she initially taught in this field at the Australian National University, the University of NSW, Charles Darwin University and the University of Western Sydney. Parallel to this she worked in the arts sector in management, curatorial, consultant and research positions. This dual focus has driven her research, which is informed by her experience of the practical issues that museums and galleries face while being underpinned by a strong theoretical foundation.

----------Current Research Projects----------

• Blockbusters Exhibitions in Australia - collaborative project with Dr Chiara O'Reilly
• Curating Experience in Multi-sensual Exhibitions
• Democratisation of the Exhibition Development Process