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Brief overview

Anne Watson is an independent architecture and design historian, curator and author and a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney.

From 1980 to 2007 she was employed in a curatorial capacity at the Powerhouse Museum, firstly as Curatorial Assistant then Curator grade 2 from 1989. She was Project Leader, Decorative Arts & Design, 1985-86 and acting Senior Curator, Australian Historical Decorative Arts 1995-2000. From 2000 she was Curator of Architecture & Design. Sydney Opera House

As curator, Anne Watson significantly contributed to developing the Powerhouse Museum’s furniture, architecture and design collections from a minor groups of objects to collections of national and some international significance. Major international acquisitions included the Thomas Hope Egyptian Revival suite of furniture, c. 1800; the E W Godwin sideboard, c. 1867, the C R Mackintosh Argyle 1897; a comprehensive collection of 20th century chairs and the Zaha Hadid ‘Moraine’ sofa, 2000. Significant Australian acquisitions have included highly important examples of colonial furniture as well as work by contemporary designers and craft practitioners such as Marc Newson, Leon Sadubin and Jon Goulder.