Details

Position: Registrar and Exhibition Manager

Employment type: Full-time

Qualification: N/A

Location: Regional

Description: Requirement: Full-time, minimum 2 years
Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm
Start Date: 1 November 2023

Tanya Leighton seeks an experienced Registrar and exhibition manager to oversee the smooth and efficient operation of the gallery and its programme. A successful candidate will prove experience of all aspects of inventory and exhibition management in a fast-moving working environment. They will fulfil a key role supervising all shipping logistics, artwork storage and exhibition projects as part of a busy team of full and part-time staff.

Candidate specifications:
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working as a Registrar or similar position in the visual arts
• A comprehensive understanding of the parameters of working in a commercial gallery
• Proven ability to support team members and artists in all areas of the safe handling,
transport, storage and exhibition of artwork
• Proven ability to work to tight deadlines and budgets
• Excellent organisational skills with proven experience of exhibition management
• Confidence to delegate tasks and supervise their progress and timely completion
• Confident, independent worker, who follows guidelines and instructions closely without
oversight
• Excellent communication skills and writing and editing skills in both English and German
• Experience of managing a cloud-based database system
• Fast learner able to pick-up the operation of new systems in an efficient and timely
manner
• Smartly presented with a polite and positive demeanor
• The registrar will work closely with the Owner, Director, Gallery Manager and Technicians

Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Organising and overseeing all incoming and outgoing shipments
• Liaising with clients to support the crating and shipment of purchased artworks
• Safe transport, handling, care and storage of all art works in the gallery inventory
• General maintenance of gallery storage
• Preparing and overseeing loan agreements and consignments
• Logging all incoming and outgoing receipts, and condition reports
• Requesting shipping quotations and allocating jobs
• Oversight of all correspondence with shippers and customs agents
• Overseeing preparation and shipments for art fairs
• Filing and maintenance of a faultless record of customs paperwork and import
status for each work
• Maintaining an up-to-date gallery database, recording locations and provenance
• Exhibition management, including supervising and coordination of production
• Management of freelance technical staff on exhibition installations and day to day
projects
• Sourcing products or services for installations
• Responsible for task management tools to manage short and long-term projects
• Creating and keeping to agreed timetables with the Director and the Gallery
Manager
• Packing of artworks and organisation of gallery inventory
• Coordination of exhibition and artwork photography
• Generating certificates of authenticity

Application: To apply for this position please send a CV and cover letter to info@tanyaleighton.com with ‘Registrar‘/Exhibition Manager, Tanya Leighton' in the subject line by 1 October 2023. Interviews will take place on a rolling basis.

Applicants without the above specifications need not apply.