Preparing (and posing with a paintbrush!) my first ever co-curated exhibition with other University of Bristol MA History of Art students. Drawn In at the Royal West of England Academy was a response to their biennial open submission Drawn exhibition, 18 May 2015.
ALL ABOUT vanguardgirl
A place for celebration, debate & discussion.
Avant-garde art, design & culture
c.1900-present.
Supporting & exploring London’s art scene.
aims & objectives:
To make modern and contemporary art more accessible and approachable for all.
To inform and expand knowledge of art and design produced in the twentieth century.
To actively promote and support London's museums, galleries and collections of modern and contemporary art.
ABOUT VANGUARD GIRL:
I am currently the Programme Coordinator for Short Courses, Practical Workshops, and Lifestyle Events in the V&A Academy, Adult Learning at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. I graduated with my MA in the History of Art from the University of Bristol in 2016, previously studying my BA (Hons) in Art History at the University of Plymouth in 2014. I specialise in American modern art and design from the twentieth century, with a particular focus on Abstract Expressionism. My specific interests lie in the construction of a postwar identity for American art, the collaboration between the New York School painters and Beat Gen poets and issues regarding gender and performance in their work. Although American modernism is my specialism, I also have a keen interest in earlier modernist movements of the twentieth century such as Dada and Bauhaus. Since working at the V&A I have also expanded my interest towards turn of the century movements in art and design such as Art Nouveau, the Scottish School, and Arts & Crafts.
I co-curated Drawn In at the Royal West of England Academy, a response to their biennial open submission drawing exhibition Drawn in May 2015. Alongside this, I also produced a public lunchtime talk and academic essay to accompany the exhibition.
I have given a number of lectures, talks, and tours throughout the UK. I have given academic lectures for the V&A Academy including Die Webereiwerkstatte: Bauhaus Textiles and Contemporary Fashion as part of their Summer term course: The Birth of Style: European Fashion 1800-2020 (May 2020). I will be repeating this lecture in Summer 2022 and delivering two new lectures focusing on the Harlem Renaissance and the Beat Generation for another course, Art and the City: Early Modern to Now (June and July 2022). In terms of talks and tours, I delivered Bauhaus Women: The Women of the Webereiwerkstatt and Femme Fatales throughout the V&A at the Victoria & Albert Museum (2018), Drawn In at the Royal West of England Academy (2015), and The Revolution of the Gallery Hang at Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery (2012).
Qualifications:
MA History of Art: Histories & Interpretations on Art, University of Bristol (2016).
(First) BA (Hons) Art History, University of Plymouth (2014).
Work Experience:
Programme Coordinator for Short Courses, Practical Workshops, and Lifestyle Events, V&A Academy, Adult Learning at the Victoria & Albert Museum, (April 2019 - present).
Learning Administrator & Schools Programme Coordinator, The British Library, (September 2018 - April 2019).
Sackler Centre Assistant, Victoria & Albert Museum, (September 2017 - September 2018).
Secretariat Receptionist, Victoria & Albert Museum, (April 2017 - September 2018).
Gallery Assistant, Victoria & Albert Museum, (July 2016 - September 2018).
LECTURES:
Die Webereiwerkstatte: Bauhaus Textiles & Contemporary Fashion - Summer term course: The Birth of Style: European Fashion 1800-2020, V&A Academy, Victoria & Albert Museum, (May 2021, May 2020).
Harlem Renaissance - Summer term course: Art & the City: Early Modern to Now, V&A Academy, Victoria & Albert Museum, (June 2022).
The Beat Generation - Summer term course: Art & the City: Early Modern to Now, V&A Academy, Victoria & Albert Museum, (July 2022).
TALKS & TOURS:
Bauhaus Women: The Women of the Webereiwerkstatt, Victoria & Albert Museum, (2018).
Femme Fatales throughout the V&A, Victoria & Albert Museum, (2018).
Drawn In, Royal West of England Academy, (2015).
The Revolution of the Gallery Hang, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, (2012).