I joined the Watts Gallery in March 2025 as Collections Curator, I previously held curatorial roles at the National Trust, Victoria and Albert Museum and National Museum of Wales. I am responsible for the care and display of the permanent collection of G F Watts’s paintings, drawings and sculptures and Mary Watts’s fine and decorative art works, works by the Compton Pottery and the gallery’s historic interiors. As well as archival materials associated with both artists and the Watts Gallery.
The variety! Sometimes I am working as a member of a team on practical tasks in the gallery or store rooms, re-displaying artworks or planning future programming. At others, I am working alone in the archives and library, undertaking research and writing. I’ve worked with Arts and Crafts objects and curated Victorian places throughout my career, and I am enjoying developing my knowledge of G F and Mary Watts. I am fascinated by working at a place where artists lived and worked, we can explore their ideas and how they worked as well as the objects and artworks that they were creating.
Continuing to research and redisplay the permanent collection at the Gallery. In Autumn 2025 we rehung the historic galleries and we will continue refreshing the display in those spaces. We will also be displaying some new acquisitions to the collection that I am excited to share, including a rediscovered portrait drawing of Mary Watts, showing her later in life, that was gifted to us and is currently undergoing conservation.
I dabble in lots of things – pottery, painting and sewing.
Alternative Rock was my most listened to music genre last year…