We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Fleur Watson as an Honorary University Fellow in the School of Art.

Fleur is Executive Director and Senior Curator for the Centre for Architecture Victoria Open House Melbourne. From 2013–2020, Fleur was Curator at Design Hub Gallery — an exhibition space dedicated to cross-disciplinary design exchange and practice-led research at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

She has held senior curatorial positions in Australia and internationally including as the founding executive curator of the Lyon Housemuseum Galleries; invited architecture curator for the National Gallery of Victoria’s survey exhibition Melbourne Now (2013/2014), program curator (architecture) for the European Capital of Culture (Maribor, Slovenia, 2012) and director and co-founder of the independent Pin-up Project Space (2010–2014). Fleur is the series editor for Editions: Australian Architectural Monographs (Thames & Hudson), the author of the upcoming publication The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture & Design (Routledge, 2021) and a former editor of Monument magazine (2001–2007).

Photography by Peter Bennetts