Curating
2023
The Speaker’s State Coach in Westminster Hall, May 2023.
A portrait of the Rt Hon Theresa May MP
Led on the commission of a new portrait from Saied Dai by the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art.
The Speaker’s State Coach
Led on displaying the Coach in Westminster Hall for the Coronation of HM King Charles III with accompanying interpretation.
A major acquisition for Parliament
Led on acquiring a portrait of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett by Annie Swynnerton for the Parliamentary Art Collection. Discussed with colleagues in a short film.
Policy development
Worked on creating and agreeing a Sensitive Objects policy for Parliament’s collections
2022
Platinum Jubilee displays, Parliament
Curated two temporary displays in the Houses of Parliament - for the House of Commons and House of Lords - celebrating works in the collections acquired or commissioned for previous jubilees.
Yinka Shonibare, effective, defective, creative (1999), Science Museum
Instigated and curated move of this seminal work into the Who am I? gallery at the Science Museum, with updated interpretation.
Art and Covid-19, Science Museum
Led on collecting a series of artworks capturing the impacts of Covid-19 for the Science Museum, including installing a new work by Grayson Perry in Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries.
2021
Amazônia, Science Museum
Internal curator for touring exhibition of new works by Sebastião Salgado, including additional content and commissioned blog series.
‘Illuminating Objects’ collaboration with The Courtauld (2018-2021)
Co-supervised a collaborative display and internship programme to put a series of The Courtauld’s decorative art objects on display at the Science Museum, culminating in a display in the reopened Courtauld in 2021. Including a panel discussion.
2020
‘For Science’ by Jenny Holzer
Curated a fifth art commission for Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries to mark a year since opening. Blogged here.
2019
Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, Science Museum
Curated four major art commissions from Eleanor Crook, Siân Davey, Marc Quinn and Studio Roso. The Galleries contributed to the museum being named a winner of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020.
The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter, Science Museum
Co-curated the exhibition. Contributed to the accompanying book and Radio 4 series. Wrote for ArtUK about five highlights.
New Smith Centre, Science Museum
Co-curated the object displays. The centre was opened by HM the Queen.
2018
‘Pacific Encounters’ gallery, Royal Museums Greenwich
Co-curated this new permanent gallery. This work was supported by a joint Art Fund Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant to travel to the Pacific in 2017.
The Sun: Living with our Star, Science Museum
Contributed to the exhibition, to linked media coverage, and co-wrote the accompanying book.
2016
Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich
One of four curators working on the complete refurbishment and redisplay. Particularly curated a maritime ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ and displays on ‘The Allure of Science’ and ‘Classic Cook’.
Re·Think Gallery, Royal Museums Greenwich
Curatorial lead on the Exploration theme, and for the whole of the linked ‘Travellers’ Tails’ HLF-funded programme.
2015
‘Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin’, Royal Museums Greenwich
Curated and project managed this fourth contemporary art show in the Queen's House.
‘The Art & Science of Exploration, 1768-80’, Royal Museums Greenwich
Co-curated this exhibition in the Queen’s House
Installation shot of ‘Unseen: The Lives of Looking by Dryden Goodwin’ at Royal Museums Greenwich © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
2014
‘Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude’, Royal Museums Greenwich
Contributed to the exhibition and press coverage.
Other projects, 2008 onwards
President of the ‘Science and the Arts’ section, British Science Association (2021-2022)
International Engagement Fellow with the AAMC/Art Fund (2020-2022)
Board Member - Social Media, Museums and Galleries History Group (2017-2021)
Member of the ‘100 Hours’ Project at UCL (2013-2014)
Collections Assistant on the Store Stories Project at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge (2013)
Project Assistant on the ‘Wallich and Indian Natural History’ Project’ for the Natural History Museum, Centre for Arts and Humanities Research with Kew Gardens and the British Library (2010)
Freelance editor for the International Council of Money and Banking Museums (ICOMON) (2009-2013)
Various roles in the British Museum Coins and Medals Department, working on historic collections and digitisation (2008-2010)