Curatorial

V&A

2018 - 2023: Director of Collections

  • Oversight and management of Collections Division (curatorial, conservation & conservation science, collections care & access; V&A Research Institute, National Art Library and V&A Archives)

  • Senior advocacy and oversight of gallery refurbishment projects (Photography Centre Galleries; Gilbert Collection Galleries; South Asian Galleries)

  • Senior sponsor and advocate for Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance (2023)

  • Support and collaboration on collections move to V&A East Storehouse

2016 - 2018: Keeper, Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics & Glass

  • Leadership and management for departmental curators, researchers, volunteers and administrative staff

  • Expert adviser to HM Government on export reviews and cultural gifts scheme

  • Active acquisitions programme

Antonia Boström, Messerschmidt and Modernity, Getty Publications: Los Angeles, 2012

Simone Pheulpin, Eclipse XII, 2018 © V&A

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

2013 - 2016: Director of Curatorial Affairs

  • Management of Curatorial, Conservation and Collections Management divisions

  • Oversight of provenance research and policy

  • Publications programme

The J. Paul Getty Museum

2004 - 2013: Senior Curator of Sculpture & Decorative Arts

  • Lead curator for installation of Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden and Terrace at the Getty https://www.getty.edu/art/installation_highlights/previews/outdoor_sculpture.html

  • Lead curator for reinstallation of Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department galleries (Medieval to Romantic)

  • Development of sculpture and decorative arts collection

  • Spearheaded Catalogue of French, German, Dutch & Flemish Sculpture in the J. Paul Getty Museum

  • Provenance research

  • Exhibitions organised by the Sculpture & Decorative Arts Department and in collaboration:

    Casting Nature: François-Thomas Germain's “Machine d'Argent” (2006–7); Oudry's Painted Menagerie (2007); Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art (2007–8); The Color of Life (2008-9); Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture (2008); Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen (2008-9); Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts (2009); Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia (2011); Paris: Life & Luxury (2011); Messerschmidt and Modernity (2012).

Balthasar Griessman, Detail from Ivory Goblet, c. 1680 © J Paul Getty Museum

Henry Moore, Bronze Form, 1985, Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden © J Paul Getty Museum

Attributed to Francesco Primaticcio, Double Head, c. 1543 © J Paul Getty Museum

Display Cabinet (Kabinettschrank), c. 1630 © J Paul Getty Museum

The Detroit Institute of Arts

1998 - 2004: Assistant Curator and team member for reinstallation of DIA’s European and Graeco-Roman galleries

1996 - 1998: Research Scholar and co-author of the Catalogue of Italian Sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2003

V&A

1980 - 1985 National Art Library and Sculpture Department

  • Recognised sculpture scholar of 16th to 18th-century European sculpture

EXHIBITIONS

  • Messerschmidt and Modernity (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012)

  • Magnificenza! The Medici, Michelangelo and Art of Late Renaissance Florence (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Art Institute of Chicago and Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002-4)

  • Garden Imagery in English Embroidery (Detroit Institute of Arts, 2001)

Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1903 © Detroit Institute of Arts