About VANGUARDGIRL

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 talks and tours throughout the UK including Bauhaus Women: The Women of the Weberei Werkstatt 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).