Thursday, November 7, 2024

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Teatro Studio Borgna

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Annabel Stogdon, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Re-framing the Landscape: Women in Art Handling Nearly 50% of the core team of Art Handlers at the National Galleries Scotland are women, with a core team comprising 7Art Handlers, 3 of which are women. In this presentation, one of the three, Annabel Stogdon, will reflect on establishing a career as an Art Technician, her route to a full time permanent Technician role at National Galleries Scotland and offer thoughts on working within a mixed gender team. This will include considering perceptions surrounding gender in relation to the physicality of the role, allocation of tasks, use of equipment and the extent to which gender is a factor in interactions with other members of the team, colleagues in other departments and encounters outside of the organisation. Looking to the future, Annabel will also share information on the Art Technician training programme at the National Galleries Scotland, trialled last year and currently being developed into a formal programme within the organisation, and how this is supporting recruitment of women into the field.

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