Jane Messenger is a Sydney based curator and author. Prior to establishing Messenger Art Advisory, she was the Curator of European and North American Art for the Art Gallery of South Australia. She oversaw the interpretation, display and expansion of a prestigious collection spanning the Renaissance through to Contemporary Art. She was also an Affiliate Lecturer Art History, School of History and Politics, University of Adelaide.
Jane steered projects with TATE (Britain), Saatchi Gallery, Bill Viola, Patricia Piccinini, Australia’s major national and state galleries, The David Roche Foundation and Detached Cultural Organisation. Her publications include: Patricia Piccinini: Once upon a time…, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2011 Making Nature: Masters of European landscape art, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of South Australia, 2009 and Japanese Prints: Images from the floating world, exhib. cat., Art Gallery of South Australia, 2004. She has contributed essays to: The world of Mortimer Menpes, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2014, Turner from the Tate: The making of a master, Tate Publishing, 2013, Parallel collisions: 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2012, Turner to Monet: The triumph of landscape painting, National Gallery of Australia, 2008, Empires & Splendour: At Home with David Roche, The David Roche Foundation, 2018, Modern Britain, National Gallery of Victoria 2007.
