recent projects

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  Picasso: From the Studio
  National Gallery of Ireland, October 2025–February 2026

  Writer of the audio guide accompanying this major exhibition exploring Picasso's life and work through the lens of his many workplaces. From Paris and Normandy to the South of France, Picasso's studios were places of inspiration, innovation and experimentation. Journeying through the most important of these studios, this script traces his rise from poverty to celebrity and explores the overlapping of his homes and studios, his life and art.

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  Eleri Mills: A Celebration at 70
  Celf/Gallery, Cardiff, September 2025

  Written introduction tracing the artistic journey of one of Wales's leading landscape artists, Eleri Mills, whose works often lead us on a journey. In her works, paths entice us, rivers meander around hills, and vast oceans hint at distant worlds. For Mills, these pathways and waterways are like veins that bring life to her distinctly Welsh landscapes, in which the forms of nature are tightly bound with a deep sense of history and culture.

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  Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone: The Art of Friendship
  National Gallery of Ireland, April–August 2025

  Writer of audio guide examining the extraordinary careers of Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, who helped champion the course of modernism in Ireland. This script traces their friendship and artistic partnership – from Dublin to 1920s Paris and back to Ireland, and from their pioneering exploration of abstraction to their diverging creative paths in later life, with Jellett focusing on panting and Hone on stained glass.

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  Interpretation Editor/Proofreader
  National Portrait Gallery

  Regular editing and proofreading for the National Portrait Gallery: interpretation texts (panels and labels) for permanent/temporary displays, anddigital learning resources. Projects have included the collection redisplay in 2023, the annual Photo Portrait Now exhibition, and the award-winning online learning resource NPG Schools hub.
   

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  Translator (Italian to English)
  Galleria Estense and Biblioteca Estense, Modena, Italy

  Regular translation of interpretation texts for the permanent collection displays and temporary exhibitions at Galleria Estense, Biblioteca Estense, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Ferrara and Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo. Projects have ranged from exhibitions on artists such as Hendrick ter Brugghen and Guido Reni to displays on literary figures such as Petrarch and Dante.
   

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  Welsh language consultant
  ArtUK

  Editing and proofreading of the Welsh-language version of ArtUK's new visual literacy learning resource, The Superpower of Looking, advising on art historical terms and expressions in Welsh and ensuring the accuracy, consistency, accessibility and readability of the text for Welsh language speakers of all levels. 
   

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  Art and slate: the slate landscape of north-west Wales
  ArtUK, 2024

  Bilingual article for ArtUK marking the designation of the slate landscape of north-west Wales as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. From depictions of slate quarries to works of art inspired by this jagged industrial landscape, and from the use of slate as an artistic material to the hidden quarry where the nation's artistic treasures were safeguarded during WWII, the connections between art and slate in north-west Wales are as multi-layered as they are rich.

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  Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
  Online course, Christie's Education, 2023

  Developed, researched and wrote an online lecture course (6 x 1-hour scripts, to be filmed) examining a period of breakthroughs and radical innovation in European art. The course begins in Paris, where the Impressionists challenged the artistic status quo and broke new ground, and goes on to trace the different artistic directions taken by Post-Impressionist artists both in Paris and further afield over the decades that followed.

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  Lavinia Fontana
  National Gallery of Ireland, 2023

  Writer of audio guide examining the life and career of Lavinia Fontana, who blazed a trail through Renaissance Bologna and Rome, forging a career as an artist at a time when men dominated the art world. A successful portrait painter, she also painted public altarpieces and female nudes – pioneering achievements for a woman of her time. The production explored eighteen works and included an interview with curator Aoife Brady.

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  CELF
  Museum Wales/Amgueddfa Cymru, 2023

  Author of a series of articles and 80+ biographies in English and Welsh for CELF, the National contemporary art gallery for Wales. CELF brings the Welsh national collection of contemporary art to communities across Wales and offers resources and pathways that foster engagement with the collection through online resources and partnerships with galleries throughout Wales.
   

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  Lecture: From Wales to Italy
  Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, June 2022

  Lecture and article about Welsh artists who worked in Italy between the 18th and early 20th century. The first half discussed artists who travelled to (and sometimes settled in) Italy – Richard Wilson, William Parry, Thomas Jones, John Gibson, Penry Williams, Mary Charlotte Lloyd and Calvert Richard Jones – and the second half focused on Llewelyn Lloyd, an artist of Welsh descent who was born and raised in Italy.

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  Saudia Arabian Museum of Contemporary Art, Jax
  2022

  Writer of interpretation texts for a new museum of contemporary art in Jax, Saudi Arabia. Wrote in-gallery texts (70+ labels) examining works by Saudi Arabian artists from the 1960s to the present day.
  
  
   

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  Scottish National Portrait Gallery
  Multimedia Tour, 2022

  Writer of new content for the multimedia tour dedicated to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection, including interviews with artists, curators and sitters, among them Ian Rankin (pictured).

  
   

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  Art That Made Us
  BBCTwo/The Open University, 2022

  Contributor to landmark series examining creativity in Britain over a period of 1500 years and tracing the history of the British Isles through its art. Featuring artists, scholars and commentators, the series of eight documentaries examined the way works of art from the past helped shape the nation – in Wales, Scotland and Ireland as well as England.
   

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  The Wallace Collection
  Frans Hals: The Male Portrait, 2021

  Writer of the multimedia guide accompanying this exhibition exploring Frans Hals's vivid male portraits. Featuring thirteen paintings, the exhibition – and guide – showcased Hals's skill and technical mastery and provided a glimpse of the world that he and his sitters inhabited – the flourishing city of Haarlem in the early years of the Dutch Republic.
   

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  The Story of Welsh Art,
  BBC Four/BBC2 Wales, 2021

  Contributor to a BBC three-part series tracing the history of Welsh art, from prehistoric rock carvings to dramatic 18th- and 19th-century landscapes and the directions Welsh art has taken in the 20th century. Interviewed by presenter Huw Stephens on Thomas Jones's groundbreaking, small-scale oil sketches of the Neapolitan urban scene.
   

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  National Gallery of Ireland
  An Artist's Adventure! Family Tour, 2020

  Creative development and writer of a dedicated tour for families to enjoy on site or online. Eager artist Eoin visits the Gallery looking for inspiration for his first big painting. Led by warder Íde, he encounters works from different times and places, even meeting some special guests! As Eoin finds ideas for his own painting, so listeners are prompted to think and talk about creating their own masterpieces. 
  
   

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  Royal Academy of Arts, Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection, 2020

  Writer of the audio guide to this exhibition of works from Denmark’s Ordrupgaard Collection – a treasure trove of important Impressionist works. This exhibition showcased 60 works by painters such as Manet, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Morisot, Degas and Gauguin – many shown for the first time in the UK. The accompanying audio guide traced developments in 19th-century French painting alongside the history of the Ordrupgaard collection.

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  National Gallery of Ireland, Moment in Time: A Legacy of Photographs | Works from the Bank of America Collection, 2020

  Writer of an audio guide tracing the history of photography from its inception in the 19th century through its development in the 20th century, exploring the full technical and artistic range of the medium through works by leading photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Brassaï, Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange and more.
  
   

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  National Gallery of Ireland
  Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light, 2019

  Writer of the audio guide that accompanied this exhibition dedicated to Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923), one of the most celebrated artists of his time in his native Spain. Sorolla was known for his sun-drenched depictions of beaches, gardens and landscapes, his family portraits, and large-scale paintings of social themes and Spanish life. This was the first exhibition of Sorolla's paintings to be held in Ireland.
  
   

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  Modern Art
  Online course, Christie's Education

  Developed, researched an online lecture course (6 x 1-hour scripts to be filmed) tracing the radical developments that transformed European art in the early twentieth-century and exploring the artistic movements that emerged at this time, from Fauvism and Expressionism to Cubism and Surrealism. The course (still available online) highlights works from public collections as well as paintings that have recently sold at Christie's.

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  Palazzo Reale, Milan
  The Pre-Raphaelites: Love and Desire, 2019

   

  Writer and narrator of the audio guide that accompanied this exhibition of masterpieces from Tate Britain's collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, among them key works by Millais, Rossetti, Madox Brown and Burne-Jones. As well as exploring the Pre-Raphaelites' work, the guide traced the inspiration these artists found in Italian art, culture, history and literature. Organised with Tate Britain.

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  National Gallery of Ireland
  Shaping Ireland: Landscapes in Irish Art, 2019

  Writer of the audio guide to this exhibition looking at how the Irish landscape has been seen by artists over 250 years, from the 18th century to the present day. The works on show encompassed a range of artistic media and perspectives, revealing the role artists have played in visualising aspects of human impact on the environment. 

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  Royal Academy of Arts
  Klimt/Schiele, Drawings from the Albertina, 2018

  Writer of the audio guide that accompanied this exhibition, which offered rare insight into the work of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, two of Austria’s most radical modernist artists. For the first time in the UK, their drawings were shown side-by-side, throwing light not only on their creative process, but also – more crucially – on their close artistic relationship.

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  Chiostro del Bramante, Rome
  Turner: Works from Tate, 2018

  Writer and narrator of audio guide examining Turner's watercolours. These are among his most radical and lyrical works, and range from public exhibition pieces to private experiments with colour and light. The exhibition presented ninety works from the Turner Bequest at Tate Britain, among them sketches, studies, watercolours, drawings and a selection of oils.

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  National Gallery of Ireland
  Emil Nolde: Colour is Life, 2018

  Writer of audio guide that accompanied this exhibition dedicated to the German Expressionist artist Emil Nolde – the first major presentation of his work to be held in Ireland in over fifty years. The exhibition showcased a colourful selection of Nolde's paintings, drawings, etchings and woodcuts, most on loan from the Nolde Foundation, Seebüll. 
   

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  National Gallery
  Murillo: The Self Portraits, 2018

  Interpretation editor or this display which reunited the only two known self-portraits by the 17th-century master Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, displayed together for the first time in over three hundred years, and examined Murillo's use of illusionism in both his portraits and genre paintings. 
   

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  National Gallery
  Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2018

  Interpretation editor and audio guide writer. This exhibition whcih explored the influence of Jan Van Eyck's famous painting The Arnolfini Portrait, which was acquired by the National Gallery in 1842. The painting's influence on British artists at that time, in particular the Pre-Raphaelite painters, was explored in this exhibition, which featured works by Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt, among others.

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  Leighton House Museum
  Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, 2017

  Writer of audio guide for exhibition focusing on Lawrence Alma-Tadema, one of the most prominent artists of the late Victorian period, known for his paintings of classical subjects. This was the first major presentation of his work to be held in London since 1913.
  
  
   

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  Lady Lever Art Gallery
  Port Sunlight, 2017

  Writer/editor of new audio guide for the Lady Lever Art Gallery, which was founded by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, and houses one of Britain's finest collections of fine and decorative arts. Highlights include the Wedgwood collection and Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite art. 
  
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  Leighton House Museum
  Flaming June: The Making of an Icon
  November – April 2016

  This exhibition told the extraordinary story of Leighton's masterpiece, Flaming June, from the conception and unveiling of this icon of Victorian art in Leighton's house to its rise from oblivion to the heights of fame when it was rediscovered in the 1960s. Audio guide writer.
  
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  National Gallery
  Beyond Caravaggio
  October – January 2016

  Interpretation editor and audio guide writer for this exhibition examining Caravaggio influence. His groundbreaking paintings, with their compelling naturalism, dramatic lighting and powerful storytelling, transformed art in early 17th-century Rome, bringing him immediate renown during his lifetime and influencing artists around Europe after his untimely death.

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  National Gallery
  Painters' Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck
  June – September 2016

  Writer of all interpretation texts – wall panels, labels, audioguide and web feature. The exhibition brought together works of art once owned by Freud, Matisse, Degas, Leighton, Watts, Lawrence, Reynolds and Van Dyck, and examined why these painters acquired other artists'works.
  
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  Royal Academy of Arts 
  In the Age of Giorgione

  12 March – 6 June 2016

  Author of the 'Exhibition in Focus' booklet exploring the new dawn in Venetian art at the beginning of the 16th century when Giovanni Bellini was the leading artist in Venice and a younger generation, including Titian and Giorgione, emerged. Masterpieces by Giorgione were displayed alongside works by Bellini, Dürer, and TItian, among others.

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  ​Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art
  National Gallery

  February – May 2016

  Eugène Delacroix was France’s leading exponent of Romanticism who, at the time of his death in 1863, was the most revered artist among the avant-garde in Paris. This exhibition traced 50 years of his legacy, exploring the profound impact he had on his contemporaries and on generations of artists to come, among them Cézanne, Van Gogh, Signac and Matisse. Audio guide writer.

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  Visions of the Valleys, BBC Wales/BBC Four

  March 2015

  Contributor to this documentary on the visual representation of the south Wales valleys. I accompanied presenter Kim Howells to the spectacular Melincourt waterfall near Neath, following the footsteps of J.M.W. Turner, who visited the Neath valley in 1795, at the age of twenty – one five painting trips he made to Wales as a young man.
  
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  Inspired by Snowdonia, BBC Wales

  June 2015

  Presenter of a documentary exploring the depiction of Snowdonia's rugged landscape in art, from Richard Wilson and J.M.W. Turner in the 18th century, to the Victorian artists' colony in Betws y Coed, the modernist visions of J.D. Innes and twentieth-century master Kyffin Williams, concluding with artists working today.
  
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  Venus in View, BBC Radio 4

  March 2014 (still available on iPlayer)

  One hundred years after Velázquez's only surviving nude, the Rokeby Venus, was targeted by the militant Suffragette Mary Richardson, this documentary explored the historical context of the attack and looks at how it was reported in the press. Contributions from Lynda Nead, author of 'The Female Nude', National Gallery curator Letizia Treves, cultural historian Hilda Kean and photographer Tom Hunter. Presenter.

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