This is a work-out-my-thinking post, inspired by a remarkable twitter convo on radical ideas started by Abhay Adhikari earlier this week, then specifically by suse cairns ‘s reply and the many other back and forths that led me to flippantly write ‘bureacratic radicals’ Credit and thanks to…

Intro and caveats

Working at the Natural History Museum, oh boy what a privilege and a joy. I was the content/interp/curatorial lead on four temporary exhibitions then headed up…

As i write this, I have left the role of Head Exhibitions at Museums Victoria and will soon start as Director Exhibitions & Collections at ACMI, a chance to reflect. I was a shy and geeky kid who stopped studying art and history when i was fourteen, how the…

Intro and caveats

OK. Imagine a small, anonymous house, in an insignificant town in the UK. A shy and awkward boy at a rough school, bullied into a quiescent angry silence, finds a form of safety hiding…

Intro and caveats

Ending study, I needed a job. My first proper trainer and mentor was Director of Museums for an international specialist exhibition design agency. She called…

Intro and caveats

In October 2013 i moved to Australia and started as Head of Exhibitions at Museums Victoria. From my current vantage point in August 2017, I can see some patterns but it is without distance…

Intro and caveats

I found myself newly freelance in a declining economy. I’d been employed for so long, this was terrifying. I began doing anything I could, ensuring i was busy. Bit of pro…

Intro and caveats

The National Railway Museum in York, UK, had dramatic plans to rebuild half its site, and create about 8,000 sqm of exhibition space. I joined in 2009 to be the…