University Graduate Internship Program
As part of the gallery’s ongoing commitment to art education and professional art industry training we take one outstanding intern every year for a period of at least six months training.
In the normal course of events the intern would be allocated a project to work on under the supervision of a department head. The intern will receive practical experience to compliment their academic achievements and will be expected to attend our art education program.
There are a number of broad areas in which to work including Aboriginal art, Australian art, education and publications, client liaison and information technology.
It is expected that applicants will have at least a Masters degree in Art History & Theory or an equivalent qualification in another discipline. We encourage applicants with strong managerial instincts and a solid practical skills base. In the past applicants from a legal or business consultancy background have proved particularly successful.
Those interested should send their CV with a covering letter outlining what they want to receive out of the program to— info@michaelreid.com.au
2011 Intern
Charles Heyen is a 1998 graduate of the University of Washington, School of Art in Seattle, Washington, USA. His degrees are in Art History and Interdisciplinary Visual Arts with a focus on graphic design. Here is where he was first exposed to Pacific aboriginal arts in the one and only art history course available to consider the subject called Oceanic Art and Pacific Cultures covering the islands of Hawaii, PNG, New Zealand, Tahiti et al, including Australia.
Due to graduate in 1999 and not happy with the changes happening in 1998 to the graphic design field, he chose to not pursue a career in design and graduated early. He found work as a trainer and installer of hotel front-office software for a company based in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA and as a result, travelled extensively throughout the USA and Canada for two years. In 2001, after the events of September 11th, he quite his job working as a reservationist for a famous waterfront Seattle hotel to finally find work in the arts. He first realised his interest in the business-side of art during a yearlong project from 2002 to 2003 to digitally photograph artworks for the Seattle based commercial gallery, Martin-Zambito Fine Art. After that, still not ready to return to university, he tried everything from selling art works for artists-friends at the legendary Pike Place Market to working again as a desk clerk. He ultimately returned to telephone customer service, working for the business customer service division of a major cellular company for six years. In 2010 he finally moved to Sydney to pursue his dreams and returned to university for his post-graduate Masters of Art Administration at the College of Fine Art/UNSW. He is interested in promotion and cultivation of contemporary mid-career and emerging visual artists.
2010 Intern
Annabelle Michalon is currently attending ISEG business school in Lyon, France specialising in areas of art business, marketing and communication while attending university courses in art history; the 19th century is her area of interest.
Fascinated by cultural diversity and having travelled widely through Europe, Annabelle is keen to discover more about the Australian art market and Aboriginal Art.
2009 Intern
Julia Champtaloup has developed a growing interest in Aboriginal Art since coming to Australia in 1999. She has been involved in organising several Aboriginal art exhibitions at local galleries in Sydney and has visited several aboriginal art communities, including Warmun, Balgo Hills and Maningrida. Julia has previously worked as a researcher and advocate in the area of human rights and refugee issues, as well as in corporate public relations.
2008 Intern
Inspired by the experience of our previous intern, Cyrielle, Claire Thouard contacted Aboriginal Art Manager Solenne Ducos-Lamotte through the French Edhec Business School Alumni network. From January to September 2008 she will undertake an internship as the gallery’s Aboriginal art department assistant.
Fond of theatre and keen to learn more about the art sector, Claire also loves to travel and has visited Canada and Japan. Being in Australia will enable her to explore a new culture and to get closer to her French Polynesian childhood roots.
As part of her gap year during a three-year programme at Edhec Business School, Claire has already worked for six months in an event organisation agency in Paris where she organised and managed seminars, conventions and gala dinners
2007 Interns
An intern in the Aboriginal Art department, Cyrielle Mottin first came into contact with the gallery via an Aboriginal viewing for the French Edhec Business School Alumni network.
Cyrielle is enrolled in a three-year program at Edhec Business School and expects to graduate in a year’s time. She has already had several work placements in the arts including summer internships in French movie distribution and production companies and she recently organised a Short Film Festival with her student union.
Before undertaking her last university year as an exchange student in Shanghai, Cyrielle is taking a gap year to gain practical experience in various arts related areas. This started with an insight into the press industry by working as part of the Paris marketing and sales team for Télérama, a well-known French cultural magazine. Next came the decision to come to Australia where she is discovering what happens ‘behind the scenes’ at an art gallery as she assists with the day to day management of the gallery at at Elizabeth Bay.
Andrew Rothery is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia. His career started in 1983 with Freehills where he worked on a variety of commercial transactions, namely takeovers of listed companies, capital raisings (debt and equity), corporate restructurings and general advice on commercial transactions. He moved to McKinsey & Company in 1986 and worked in the Sydney and Melbourne offices on projects involving top management issues around corporate and business unit strategy, organisational re-design and profit improvement programs. For the past 16 years Andrew has been involved in the venture capital and private equity markets in Australia. Initially he was at Byvest Advisors Limited as Executive and Managing Director. Byvest was Australia’s first dedicated leveraged buyout fund. In 1996 Andrew founded Archer Capital.
As part of the gallery’s ongoing commitment to art education and professional art industry training we take one outstanding intern every year for a period of at least six months training.
In the normal course of events the intern would be allocated a project to work on under the supervision of a department head. The intern will receive practical experience to compliment their academic achievements and will be expected to attend our art education program.
There are a number of broad areas in which to work including Aboriginal art, Australian art, education and publications, client liaison and information technology.
It is expected that applicants will have at least a Masters degree in Art History & Theory or an equivalent qualification in another discipline. We encourage applicants with strong managerial instincts and a solid practical skills base. In the past applicants from a legal or business consultancy background have proved particularly successful.
Those interested should send their CV with a covering letter outlining what they want to receive out of the program to— info@michaelreid.com.au
2011 Intern
Charles Heyen is a 1998 graduate of the University of Washington, School of Art in Seattle, Washington, USA. His degrees are in Art History and Interdisciplinary Visual Arts with a focus on graphic design. Here is where he was first exposed to Pacific aboriginal arts in the one and only art history course available to consider the subject called Oceanic Art and Pacific Cultures covering the islands of Hawaii, PNG, New Zealand, Tahiti et al, including Australia.
Due to graduate in 1999 and not happy with the changes happening in 1998 to the graphic design field, he chose to not pursue a career in design and graduated early. He found work as a trainer and installer of hotel front-office software for a company based in Gaithersburg, Maryland USA and as a result, travelled extensively throughout the USA and Canada for two years. In 2001, after the events of September 11th, he quite his job working as a reservationist for a famous waterfront Seattle hotel to finally find work in the arts. He first realised his interest in the business-side of art during a yearlong project from 2002 to 2003 to digitally photograph artworks for the Seattle based commercial gallery, Martin-Zambito Fine Art. After that, still not ready to return to university, he tried everything from selling art works for artists-friends at the legendary Pike Place Market to working again as a desk clerk. He ultimately returned to telephone customer service, working for the business customer service division of a major cellular company for six years. In 2010 he finally moved to Sydney to pursue his dreams and returned to university for his post-graduate Masters of Art Administration at the College of Fine Art/UNSW. He is interested in promotion and cultivation of contemporary mid-career and emerging visual artists.
2010 Intern
Annabelle Michalon is currently attending ISEG business school in Lyon, France specialising in areas of art business, marketing and communication while attending university courses in art history; the 19th century is her area of interest.
Fascinated by cultural diversity and having travelled widely through Europe, Annabelle is keen to discover more about the Australian art market and Aboriginal Art.
2009 Intern
Julia Champtaloup has developed a growing interest in Aboriginal Art since coming to Australia in 1999. She has been involved in organising several Aboriginal art exhibitions at local galleries in Sydney and has visited several aboriginal art communities, including Warmun, Balgo Hills and Maningrida. Julia has previously worked as a researcher and advocate in the area of human rights and refugee issues, as well as in corporate public relations.
2008 Intern
Inspired by the experience of our previous intern, Cyrielle, Claire Thouard contacted Aboriginal Art Manager Solenne Ducos-Lamotte through the French Edhec Business School Alumni network. From January to September 2008 she will undertake an internship as the gallery’s Aboriginal art department assistant.
Fond of theatre and keen to learn more about the art sector, Claire also loves to travel and has visited Canada and Japan. Being in Australia will enable her to explore a new culture and to get closer to her French Polynesian childhood roots.
As part of her gap year during a three-year programme at Edhec Business School, Claire has already worked for six months in an event organisation agency in Paris where she organised and managed seminars, conventions and gala dinners
2007 Interns
An intern in the Aboriginal Art department, Cyrielle Mottin first came into contact with the gallery via an Aboriginal viewing for the French Edhec Business School Alumni network.
Cyrielle is enrolled in a three-year program at Edhec Business School and expects to graduate in a year’s time. She has already had several work placements in the arts including summer internships in French movie distribution and production companies and she recently organised a Short Film Festival with her student union.
Before undertaking her last university year as an exchange student in Shanghai, Cyrielle is taking a gap year to gain practical experience in various arts related areas. This started with an insight into the press industry by working as part of the Paris marketing and sales team for Télérama, a well-known French cultural magazine. Next came the decision to come to Australia where she is discovering what happens ‘behind the scenes’ at an art gallery as she assists with the day to day management of the gallery at at Elizabeth Bay.
Andrew Rothery is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia. His career started in 1983 with Freehills where he worked on a variety of commercial transactions, namely takeovers of listed companies, capital raisings (debt and equity), corporate restructurings and general advice on commercial transactions. He moved to McKinsey & Company in 1986 and worked in the Sydney and Melbourne offices on projects involving top management issues around corporate and business unit strategy, organisational re-design and profit improvement programs. For the past 16 years Andrew has been involved in the venture capital and private equity markets in Australia. Initially he was at Byvest Advisors Limited as Executive and Managing Director. Byvest was Australia’s first dedicated leveraged buyout fund. In 1996 Andrew founded Archer Capital.
