Name

Rebecca Edwards

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Active

active by 2012

Occupations

Art curator

Summary

Worked: Australia (VIC, ACT).

Context

Australia

Biography

Rebecca Edwards is the Sid and Fiona Myer Curator of Ceramics and Design at the National Gallery of Australia. She recently completed a PhD in Art History at The University of Melbourne on the work of British artist Frank Brangwyn. Her thesis is currently under examination. She was previously the Assistant Curator of Australian Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Art until 1980 at the National Gallery of Victoria where she was a member of curatorial team behind the major exhibition Colony: Australia 1770–1861 / Frontier Wars (2018). Rebecca commenced her curatorial career in the Department of Australian Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Australia in 2012 when she was appointed the Gordon Darling Intern. [Prints, printmaking and Philanthropy, 2019]