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ANNUAL REPORT Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery 2015–2016 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Annual Report 2015–16 ANNUAL REPORT Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery 2015–2016 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Annual Report 2015–16 To the Minister for the Arts The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Launceston are pleased to submit, in accordance with the Local Government Act 1993, the Annual Report of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery for the year ended June 2016. Robert Dobrzynski, General Manager, City of Launceston Mission Statement To be a leader in the intellectual and creative development of Launceston and Tasmania by increasing the enjoyment and understanding of our natural and cultural heritage. 2 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Annual Report 2015–16 Contents / Profile Profile ........................................................................................................ 3 Director’s Report ....................................................................................... 5 Highlights .................................................................................................. 7 Collections and Research ........................................................................ 9 Exhibitions and Conservation ................................................................12 Visitor Operations ...................................................................................15 Strategic Directions, Outcomes and Performance 2015–2016 .............18 Corporate Governance ............................................................................ 24 Partnerships ........................................................................................... 27 Outreach .................................................................................................. 29 Collaborations ......................................................................................... 32 Support ................................................................................................... 33 Structure ................................................................................................. 36 Staff ........................................................................................................ 36 Statistics ................................................................................................. 38 Appendices ............................................................................................. 38 The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) features two Locations destinations for local, national and international audiences: a former Museum 2 Invermay Road Inveresk 19th century railway workshop at Inveresk which houses the Natural Art Gallery 2 Wellington Street Launceston Sciences and History collections, and the Royal Park building on Wellington Street, a dedicated Art Gallery. Both are open 10am to 4pm daily (closed only on Good Friday and Christmas Day). Open until 5pm for the month of January. The mixture of industrial heritage interpretation and state-of-the-art General admission is free. exhibition spaces at the Museum make the Inveresk site unique in Australia. Contact Within the Royal Park building, visitors can see works from the Queen T 03 6323 3777 Victoria Art Gallery’s Fine Art and Decorative Arts collections. E [email protected] www.qvmag.tas.gov.au Cover and Back Cover Guests enjoying the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery’s 125 years exhibition. Page 1 Background: The Blacksmith Shop. Photograph by David Maynard. Right (detail) A collection of non- Australian birds from the Victorian era. Acquired c. 1910. Photograph by David Maynard. Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania. 3 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Annual Report 2015–16 4 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Annual Report 2015–16 Director’s Report In 2015–16 we continued to improve on many of our Temple items that we have in our our performance across the many activities collection. and services of the Queen Victoria Museum National Science Week was another huge and Art Gallery (QVMAG). We have delivered activity. It drew on the resources of almost the an almost balanced budget with a modest entire organisation and included the lantern walk surplus of $4722. This demonstrates our close in association with the Light the Night ArtStart adherence to the financial controls over our exhibition. Leaving from the Museum, we saw a activities throughout the year, made even more procession of over 500 participants make their remarkable by the unexpected projects that way to the Art Gallery. were financed within the actual operating result. The talk by art historian Gavin Fry on Australian We were able to present a comprehensive contemporary artist Rick Amor in April was program across the organisation and the captivating. This tied in nicely with the QVMAG three managers Janet Keeling (Visitor Arts Foundation and its efforts to acquire Operations), Andrew Johnson (Exhibitions and the oil painting Erith and Deal Island by Rick Conservation), and Martin George (Collections Amor as the second in our Masterpieces for and Research), provide a summary of their Tasmania acquisition program. departments’ activities later in this Annual Report. Overall we delivered an impressive 285 It was also pleasing to see the new series different types of events. It is fabulous to see of special public presentations under the IQ this volume of activity. It demonstrates that Lecture, instigated by our Public Programs QVMAG matters and that we are making a Coordinator, Belinda Cotton. It is an opportunity difference to the lives of the many that visit us. for people associated with QVMAG to present This does not take into account the many more recent research work. I am mindful that who visit us through our social media. similar talks were very much part of QVMAG from our earliest days and this demonstrates We recorded a very slight increase in visitation. the important role we play in education and At 133 669 people this is still our best ever research. result. We cannot rest on this and will be working harder in 2016–17 to better it again. A highlight of the year was QVMAG celebrating With the growth of regional tourism into its 125th anniversary on 29 April 2016. We Tasmania we should be attracting many opened a special exhibition entitled The World more into our two sites. Having said this, I Inside at the Art Gallery and this included an was delighted when QVMAG was awarded eclectic array of objects from across time and the Outstanding Visitor Experience at the the disciplines of QVMAG. It was object-rich, Launceston Chamber of Commerce Business with 440 items from our collection, displayed in Excellence Awards 2015 in October. the style of the late 19th century. The exhibition paid special tribute to the founding Directors, We did well in our commercial enterprises, with Herbert Hedley Scott (1897) and then his son the shops meeting budget and a 30% increase Eric (1938). In recognition of this, Tasmanian into our donation boxes, indicating that our contemporary artist and Herbert’s great- visitors are happy with their experience. Venue granddaughter, Dr Mary Scott, completed a hire also had a dramatic increase and it is series of works that were part of the exhibition. always pleasing to see our facilities being used I was pleased that we were able to use some beyond our normal operations. Often it can be of the showcases that were used in the 1891 the first introduction to QVMAG which then opening and many of Scott’s original caption translates into future visits. labels, demonstrating that we don’t throw In August we celebrated Guan Di’s birthdate anything out! with a celebration of all things Chinese in the Going back we also helped celebrate the Art Gallery in association with our Guan Di 125 years of UTAS with the exhibition Growth Temple. The event included a dramatic lion Right Change Influence: The University Art Schools in Guests enjoying the new The World dance by members of the Launceston Chinese Inside: 125 years of the Queen Victoria Tasmania. It recognised the development of Museum and Art Gallery exhibition on community. It was an opportunity to bring out 29 April 2016. the art schools in Hobart and Launceston and 5 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Annual Report 2015–16 I was pleased that we were able to draw extensively from our We continued to collaborate with many organisations across own collection, showing that our Curators over that time had our sector. An increasingly important link is our connection been selectively collecting. We made the conscious decision with the University of Tasmania, which announced during to feature the art teachers, and although we could not include the year its plans to relocate the Launceston campus to the them all we had over 70 teachers represented. We were ably Inveresk precinct. assisted with the exhibition and catalogue by former UTAS arts In June we signed a formal agreement with the Tourism staff Pat Brassington, David Hamilton and Deborah Malor. Research and Education Network which includes UTAS, the It did seem a year of milestones as we had another UTAS 125 Department of State Growth, National Parks (Tas) and QVMAG. year exhibition with Beds, Books and Bandages celebrating Tourism is Tasmania’s largest and most significant industry. nurse training in Launceston in our Community Gallery at the While tourism promotion is important, it is also vital that we Museum. The opening was a fun evening as nurses reunited better understand tourism trends and why people visit us with each other and swapped stories and reminiscences or not.
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