The Future of Education
Fiona Moore
Institution: University of Melbourne
Address: University of Melbourne - Grattan Street
Postal Code: 3010
Country: Australia
Fiona Moore is the Coordinator of Object Based Learning and Collections Management in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, a newly created position established in 2016 to manage and develop the Faculty’s experiential and object based learning activities.
Fiona holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art History, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Curatorship and Museum Management and a Masters of Arts (Research) in Art History from the University of Melbourne. She is also a PhD candidate in the Art History Program in the School of Culture and Communication in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne where she is completing her doctorate on art education and training in nineteenth century Australia.
Fiona has worked in the Australian museum and gallery sector for twenty years as a Registrar, Collections Manager, Curator and Project Manager. She has held positions at some of Australia’s most prestigious cultural institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia. She has been responsible for managing a wide range of cultural collections, been the lead Registrar on large-scale international exhibitions and worked on four gallery redevelopment/relocation projects.
Since 2012, Fiona has worked in academia holding positions as a research assistant, tutor, subject coordinator and guest lecturer in the Masters of Arts Curatorship and the Masters of Arts and Cultural Management Programs at the University of Melbourne. In these roles she taught in the areas of art curatorship, collections management and exhibitions management and was responsible for developing and implementing a new subject on collections management as part of the Masters of Art Curatorship Course.
In 2015, Fiona was employed as a Research Assistant/Consultant on the Faculty of Arts new building project, Arts West which was to be the new home for the teaching of the Bachelor of Arts. In this role she provided advice and developed policies in regard to the management, display and inward loan of collections’ material for teaching and research. In 2016, she became the inaugural Coordinator of Object Based Learning and was responsible for delivering the collections management infrastructure for the new building as well as coordinating the opening displays for the facility and setting up two customised object based learning labs which she now manages on an on-going basis. As the Coordinator of Object Based Learning, Fiona liaises with academics from across the Faculty of Arts five Schools to integrate object based learning into the teaching of the Bachelor of Arts using items from the University of Melbourne’s forty cultural collections and develops new curriculum based on experiential learning.
Over the past two years, Fiona has presented on object based learning at Conferences organised by the University of Sydney, the University of Hong Kong and the Culture Academy Singapore. She has also presented on a wide range of collections management subjects, such as the development and care of audio visual collections held at the National Gallery of Australia at the 9th AICCM Book and Paper Photographic Materials Symposium in 2016. She has also acted as a Panel Member and Session Chair for Art Curatorship Conferences and Symposiums on subjects including the role of the art museum in the digital future and the development of the immunity from seizure legislation in Australia. Fiona has also had articles published on the history of art training and education in nineteenth century colonial Melbourne and the development of Australia’s first art school, the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne.
Areas of expertise: Object Based Learning, Experiential Learning, Art Curatorship, Collections Management, Exhibitions Project Management, Preservation and care of audio visual/new media collections, nineteenth century Australian art education and Training.
Fiona holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art History, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Art Curatorship and Museum Management and a Masters of Arts (Research) in Art History from the University of Melbourne. She is also a PhD candidate in the Art History Program in the School of Culture and Communication in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne where she is completing her doctorate on art education and training in nineteenth century Australia.
Fiona has worked in the Australian museum and gallery sector for twenty years as a Registrar, Collections Manager, Curator and Project Manager. She has held positions at some of Australia’s most prestigious cultural institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia. She has been responsible for managing a wide range of cultural collections, been the lead Registrar on large-scale international exhibitions and worked on four gallery redevelopment/relocation projects.
Since 2012, Fiona has worked in academia holding positions as a research assistant, tutor, subject coordinator and guest lecturer in the Masters of Arts Curatorship and the Masters of Arts and Cultural Management Programs at the University of Melbourne. In these roles she taught in the areas of art curatorship, collections management and exhibitions management and was responsible for developing and implementing a new subject on collections management as part of the Masters of Art Curatorship Course.
In 2015, Fiona was employed as a Research Assistant/Consultant on the Faculty of Arts new building project, Arts West which was to be the new home for the teaching of the Bachelor of Arts. In this role she provided advice and developed policies in regard to the management, display and inward loan of collections’ material for teaching and research. In 2016, she became the inaugural Coordinator of Object Based Learning and was responsible for delivering the collections management infrastructure for the new building as well as coordinating the opening displays for the facility and setting up two customised object based learning labs which she now manages on an on-going basis. As the Coordinator of Object Based Learning, Fiona liaises with academics from across the Faculty of Arts five Schools to integrate object based learning into the teaching of the Bachelor of Arts using items from the University of Melbourne’s forty cultural collections and develops new curriculum based on experiential learning.
Over the past two years, Fiona has presented on object based learning at Conferences organised by the University of Sydney, the University of Hong Kong and the Culture Academy Singapore. She has also presented on a wide range of collections management subjects, such as the development and care of audio visual collections held at the National Gallery of Australia at the 9th AICCM Book and Paper Photographic Materials Symposium in 2016. She has also acted as a Panel Member and Session Chair for Art Curatorship Conferences and Symposiums on subjects including the role of the art museum in the digital future and the development of the immunity from seizure legislation in Australia. Fiona has also had articles published on the history of art training and education in nineteenth century colonial Melbourne and the development of Australia’s first art school, the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne.
Areas of expertise: Object Based Learning, Experiential Learning, Art Curatorship, Collections Management, Exhibitions Project Management, Preservation and care of audio visual/new media collections, nineteenth century Australian art education and Training.
