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John Kean joins NETS Victoria as Director

NETS Victoria is pleased to announce that John Kean has joined NETS Victoria as Director, replacing Georgia Cribb while she is on maternity leave.

John has worked extensively with communities and cultural institutions, and has published on Indigenous art and the representation of nature in Australian museums.

Before joining NETS Victoria, he spent fifteen years as a Producer at Museum Victoria, working with skilled curators, designers and multimedia practitioners to create carefully crafted projects.

He came to Museum Victoria after a decade producing exhibitions at community based galleries. He was the Inaugural Exhibition Coordinator at Tandanya: the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute (1989-92), a role that resulted in a series of ambitious and innovative projects. His appointment as Exhibition Coordinator at the Fremantle Arts Centre (1993-5) provided further opportunity to explore the relationship between community history and the visual arts.

A period he spent as Art Advisor at Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, (1977-9) was an essential formative experience. He considers himself fortunate to have worked closely with this group of charismatic and influential artists who changed the course of Australian art history.

He joined Museum Victoria as a Creative Producer, charged with bringing life to the vast galleries of the new Melbourne Museum. Following the opening of the initial round of exhibitions he was entrusted with producing a range of projects, including controversial subjects at the Immigration Museum and the interpretation of the Royal Exhibition Building. In 2004 he led the team who created distributed displays celebrating the museum’s 150^th anniversary. It was while working on the Treasures project that he unearthed a significant collection of unregistered scientific illustrations. He was the Thomas Ramsay Science and Humanities Fellow 2004, a year of research into this collection which culminated in the multi award winning website, Caught and Coloured.

He recently curated exhibitions including Murray Cod: the biggest fish in the river [for the Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, which then toured with NETS Victoria], Blandowski’s expedition to the Murray River 1857 [for Museum Victoria in conjunction with the Mildura Arts Centre] and Crepuscular: the wild animals of Melbourne [City of Melbourne]. A traveling exhibition, Eyeline: the art of science [Museum Victoria] is in preparation.