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Halcyon Gallery

Title: Junior Art Researcher, Full Time and Permanent

Location: Central London

Salary: Competitive

Full time, permanent

This role will provide critical research and support and work closely with a senior member of staff.

The Ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate critical awareness of key discourses within the art world.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• In depth research of artworks
• Provenance research, attributions, and bibliography
• Cataloguing, documenting and updating database accordingly
• Writing entries based on specialist research (including provenance, bibliography compilation and illustration lists)
• Working on loan requests

• Working on publication projects
• Proof reading and fact checking
• Archival research
• Provide administrative support to senior staff
• Consult and liaise with experts, curators and institutions internationally to obtain artwork/image/artist information and documents

Person Specification

The following are essential:

• At least 2 years of experience working in the art world
• Educated to at least Masters level in a relevant Art programme
• Experience researching artworks, clients, sourcing and performing provenance checks

• Great writer academically; experience of writing for web highly advantageous
• Experienced in using gallery management software and databases & IT literate
• Confident and able to work well under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Detail oriented person

• Fluent in written and spoken English (additional languages highly desirable)
• Highly motivated