A Wonderful day

Today I ve got quite excited. There was a sculpture, a huge dinosaur, ready to leave for the client. I was asked to help the registrar to label and pack this work. This work is composed of many different parts and seems to be like a jigsaw shape. The registrar told me that each part should have its own number for its accessing and decessing. we completed all those numbers and labelled each part of the work. The process was quite complicated for sometimes if we got the number wrong the work would not be constructed. After finishing labeling, we cleaned carefully each part and got it packed. I really enjoy working on the collection, which reminds me of working at art studio. The registrar is a very responsible and very handsome.

Hi there!

My supervisor asked me to do some research on three artists: Trevor Turbo Brown, Lydia Balbal and Mattys Gerber. I googled them to get any useful information about them. It was sad that very limited information about emerging artists was available online. But hopefully my research could be practical. Through my own research, I found that artist Trevor Turbo Brown is a really talented and promising contemporary indigenous artist. His work contains true love for his land and its creature. I deeply love the way he depicts those Australian animals, which reflect his own innocent mentality. Here is an article worthwhile reading about Brown http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/05/21/1116533552808.html

I Love working on the collection

Today I have got my own computer logging but unfortunately I still cannot log in my EMU system. In the afternoon the curator asked me to give a hand to transport department in case I got bored. The registrar, a very kind-hearted man, patiently taught me how to mark the number of received artworks and how to unpack them as well as how to place them into storage place safely. I do know plenty of handling work already but today's practice gave me more useful information about it. The registrar taught me every part of the packaging of the work and its usage. Also he told me that the artwork must be faced down when placed on the table and ready to be unpacked; after unpacking, the painting must be reversed to let the image face your body in case the image got hurt during moving. The knife used to cutting the packing type cannot be extended too long otherwise the work might be cut all together. Before putting the work on the floor there must be a special sponge get ready, and it is OK to stack works vertically but stacking several together requires a foam plane to separate them. After unpacking and storing all those received works the numbers that have not been marked on the sheet must be checked on the computer. All of these are important things that I have never learnt from my textbook. From textbook I know that wearing rubber gloves are essential for handling artworks but today it was very exciting for me to wear a pair of rubber gloves to handling collections.

A New Day

Today is my second day for intern. Because my computer logging is still waiting for be approved, I cannot get access to KE EMU system until tomorrow. The supervisor should have taught me how to get access to EMU today, it was a little shame indeed, but thanks to those reading material and the mini library at the back, I was not so bored today. I cannot wait for getting acess to EMU now as I know that it is a key system for managing museum and galleries. Hope I could enjoy this new thing tomorrow then.

My First Intern Day

    Doing internship at this arts organisation is one of my luckiest things, and I suppose it will be challenging. Before commencement I had done a little research, including organisation's history and charter, as well as its recent reviews. Today when the curator  (my supervisor) put a stack of material regarding this arts organisation, they are not quite hard to command (of course I could hardly concentrate on them because of this special environment). 

    Today my task was Mail Filing, which is significant to the arts organisation's research and archive. In the beginning, I could not understand clearly the procedure of MF on paper. This was something I had never tried before. After the curator told me how to do it, I asked whether she could show me an example. By her demonstration of MF, I knew that it was a much easier task than I had thought (it is always a good idea to ask). After daily mail about the artist (from galleries, museum,etc) is filtered by KE EMU system, by which whether the artist is already in collection can be checked, the mail is supposed to be in the artist's file. The mail files and the artists' files are both arranged in alphabetical order (their last names). Putting the mail into the corresponding file seemingly was a piece of cake, but actually it was hard to be finished efficiently and can be quite tiring. After finishing Mail Group A, I started to classify the Mail Group B(Group A & B were overwhelming) according to the letters of last names, and then found their file places more quickly. As over 3,000 artists' files on the selves, they were packed like sardines; replacing files after taking them down was a little troublesome (checking the letters made me annoyed), so I came up with an idea that slightly pulling out the file next to the one waiting for be replaced.

    I finished till Mail Group R today; it was very tiring but very rewarding. Filing should be treated seriously for every file is not some paperwork but exactly one artist; each file is responsible for their growth and update, and even part of art history for our generations. More importantly I got to know that every work can be constantly perfected during practice.