harryprogger

A sixty something male, blissfully happily married for 33 years with a gorgeous daughter who will subtly change the world for the better even though she will not be aware of it... I have loved listening to music since hearing, as a child, The Thunderbirds theme tune and Puff the Magic Dragon on my transistor radio hidden under my pillow. From there I moved on to The Black Dyke Mills Band courtesy of my dad's record collection before I branched off on my own with The Carpenters, Simon and Garfunkel and Elton John. In 1974 I bought Tubular Bells and in 1976, A Trick of the Tail and the rest, as they say, is history. I told my Careers Advisor at school in 1975 that I wanted to work in a museum. He told me I had to be old to do that (I don't recall telling him I wanted to be an exhibit). Undeterred, I gained my first museum position at The Falconer Museum in Forres, Moray in 1976, moved to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh in 1977 and transferred to the Scottish United Services Museum within the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle in 1979. In 1986 I emigrated to Australia and in 1990 became museum assistant and then, inaugural Curator of The Johnston Collection in Melbourne during which time I researched, catalogued and wrote and lectured on the fine collection of 18th and 19th century English pottery and porcelain held there. My last serious work for a gallery was at Heide Museum of Modern Australian Art in 2000-2001. I am currently a Duty Manager at Arts Centre Melbourne where I have been for 20 years...