27 November 2018
Conservator for sculpture and contemporary art at Glasgow Museums, Stephanie de Roemer explains the integral work that conservators do in looking after museums’ objects and works of art.
27 November 2018
Poppy and Liz share their career highlights and talk about curating the Museum of Liverpool’s Pembroke Place exhibition, which reveals the history of a fascinating corner of the city.
25 June 2018
This month’s curator was recently the recipient of a Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grant. Here he explains how a childhood love of dinosaurs and a chance meeting with a curator inspired him to work with museum collections.
16 June 2017
Georgia Haseldine and Peter Target of AMP Art tell us about their touring installation Project Refuge/e, which offers an insight into the conditions experienced by many of the displaced Syrians living in Lebanon.
22 May 2017
Jan Freedman, Curator of Natural History at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, goes on a trip to explore natural history collections in the US, after receiving a Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grant.
21 April 2017
Kenn Taylor, formerly head of participation at The Tetley in Leeds, talks about his experiences in Detroit and Chicago after receiving a Jonathan Ruffer grant to research socially engaged art in the US.
10 April 2017
John Heffernan, head of exhibitions at Jupiter Artland, received a Jonathan Ruffer grant to research curatorial approaches within the private museum sector in the US. Here he talks about the experience and what he learnt.
5 April 2017
Christopher Young on how Art Fund's Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grant helped him research Colonel Gilbert Ormerod Spence's watercolours.
5 July 2016
The curator, who is a recent Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grant winner, shares her career advice and explains why she loves working in Hastings.
8 June 2016
Sara Makari-Aghdam, curator at the Vane Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, was awarded a Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grant to undertake a research trip to Istanbul for the recent Vinyl Icons exhibition. Here, she talks about her experiences and the project itself.
8 January 2016
Jill Iredale, a curator at Cartwright Hall, received a grant to research David Hockney in Los Angeles. She talks about the experience and about meeting the man himself.
2 December 2015
December’s curator of the month is responsible for the National Gallery’s acclaimed current Goya exhibition. Here, he talks about taking risks.
