Victoria & Albert Museum - Curator, Jameel Projects
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£24,906 to £35,633 pa (depending on skills & experience)

Fixed term post for 3 years

The V&A has an outstanding collection of Islamic art from the Middle
East, and the main display for these holdings is the Jameel Gallery of
Islamic Art, which opened in July 2006. The new gallery was named in
honour of Abdul Latif Jameel and his wife Nafisa, and our link with the
Jameel family and the philanthropic organisations they support has
continued. Our joint aim is to give new prominence to the Middle Eastern
collection and to emphasise its value for the contemporary world.

As a result, the Asian Department at the V&A is now responsible for the
Jameel Prize, an award for contemporary art and design inspired by
Islamic tradition, which was first presented in July 2009. The
accompanying exhibition, which showed work by the nine finalists, was
displayed at the Museum between July and September 2009 and is now on
tour in the Middle East, sponsored by Abdul Latif Jameel Community
Services Programs. In the meantime, the nomination process for the
second Prize is beginning. The exhibition of work by the short-listed
artists will open at the V&A in July 2011, and the Prize will be
presented in the Autumn.

We now wish to appoint an Arabic-speaking curator with an interest in
contemporary art and design. The post-holder’s primary tasks will be to
act as administrator for the Jameel Prize, to project-manage the
associated exhibition, and to take responsibility for the production of
materials in English and Arabic on the Prize and on other aspects of the
Museum’s work, for our website and for publication.

Contact:

To apply online, please go to our website. If you have any queries
regarding the recruitment process, you can email us at hrvam.ac.uk or
telephone us on (+44) 020 7942 2937

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