Toggle SlidingBar Area

CAROL CAINS, CURATOR OF ASIAN ART AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, TACKLES THE GANGES – TAASA Review December 2011

UNLOCK THIS ARTICLE

This article was originally found in the December 2011 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 14).

The full article is available for free to TAASA Members.

Register

or Login

I became the Victorian representative for TAASA when I moved to Melbourne to work in the Asian Art Department at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2003.

One of the first TAASA events I attended was a walk through the South China garden at the Royal Melbourne Botanic Gardens with the Southern Chinese Collection’s curator Terry Smyth.

It was a freezing, rainy day, but the welcome from TAASA members was very warm, and Terry’s stories of collecting plant material in Yunnan made us forget the cold...