Kathleen Kiernan

Kathleen Kiernan has a PhD in Art history at the University of Melbourne, where she also completed her Graduate Certificate in Art Conservation Studies and a Master of Art Curatorship.  Her doctoral thesis examined collecting tastes in the eighteenth-century Europe, with a particular focus on Christie’s Auction House in London. She was awarded the Harold Wright Scholarship at the British Museum in 2007, the MacGeorge Scholarship and the Alma Hansen Scholarship in 2010.  Her expertise is in; northern European and British art of the long nineteenth century, particularly works on paper, as well as the early twentieth century and the 80s revivals of printmaking in Australia.