June 28, 2023
Historic interiors – Abbotsford Convent
The Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne is a nationally-significant heritage site with many buildings, each containing a range of decorative schemes from the 19th and 20th centuries. Over a number of years, work for the Abbotsford Convent Foundation (ACF) has included assessing the significance of the interiors’ decorative schemes – including painted finishes and ceramic tiling – and advising on a range of retained schemes and complementary new finishes.
The contemporary design work was led by Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) for the Sacred Heart Buildings (former dormitories), and Williams Boag Architects (WBA) for the former laundries complex.
August 9, 2023
Exhibitions – selected
A range of past permanent and temporary exhibition projects:
- cool: The 60s Brisbane House, with Peta Dennis, QUT Art Museum, 20 July – 22 August, 2004. [Co-curator, and co-editor of exhibition catalogue]. Exhibition review: Elizabeth Musgrave, ‘Radar Exhibition. cool: The 60s Brisbane House’, Architecture Australia, Nov-Dec 2004, pp. 41-42.
- New permanent galleries (10), Commonwealth Centenary of Federation project – James Cook Museum, Cooktown, for National Trust of Queensland, opened 2001. [Co-Project and Curatorial Manager, with Nicola Stairmand]. Project and exhibitions review: Philip Goad, ‘Cultural endeavours’, Architecture Australia, Jan-Feb 2002, pp. 52-57.
- Permanent exhibitions – Toowoomba Hospital and Medicine Museum – Stage 2, 2002, for Toowoomba Hospital Foundation. [Co-curator with Nicola Stairmand Antcap P/L].
- Inventions of Japan: ways of seeing Japanese art & design, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, 16 February – 28 April, 1990. [Exhibition design and workshops’ team].
- A Breath of Fresh Art, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, 1990. Exhibition of mid-20th paintings and sculpture, plus interpretation and workshops for partially-sighted students. [Curatorial team]
July 12, 2023
Presentations (Public and conferences) – Selected
Melbourne Design Week 2017, ‘Watch This Place’ panel
As part of Melbourne Design Week, the Office of the Victorian Government Architect hosted the event ‘Watch This Place’ on Saturday 18th March, 2017, at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Along with the Victorian Government Architect, Jill Garner, Tracey Avery was one of a group of Victorian Design Review Panel members who gave short presentations on propositions for the future of Melbourne’s built environment.