MY WORK

Projects, Exhibitions and Publications

I have worked in archives and museums, including Royal Museums Greenwich, the National Portrait Gallery, the BBC Archives, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at UCL and the Library of the London School of Economics (LSE) as well as carrying out original academic research since starting my PhD in 2000.

In 2024 I was awarded an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant to be experimental in exhibition curation and creative non-fiction writing. The subject of my application was a relatively little-known female nineteenth-century artist Ann Mary Severn (Newton). I explored voice and addressed issues around historic invisibility as well as having some fun with creativity, such as in this zine.

I'm currently Creative Producer at the Portico Library, Manchester, where I have lead a major National Heritage Lottery Fund project on public engagement with historic books and overseen the development of the delivery plan for a Capital Project.

EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

Most recently I have co-produced events and temporary pop up exhibitions at:

The Institute of Classical Studies Library, Senate House, University of London
London School of Economics, including for the centenary of some women getting the vote in 2018.
The Petrie Museum of Archaeology, UCL and in the Octagon Gallery, UCL Culture.
Historic Croydon Airport and Croydon Clocktower.
The Portico Library, Manchester