Career Spotlight: Parliament House Collection Manager

Helping Parliamentarians select art work for their offices, and coping with over a million visitors a year, is all part of managing the Collection at Parliament House.

27 Mar 2017

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Parliament House Art Collection team installing Ben Quilty, Lead Shot Rorschach (2013), Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT.

Perhaps one of the most unusual jobs in Australia is the Collection Manager for “the House” – not the Opera House, but Parliament House in Canberra.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina