Catherine is an author, independent academic and critic. For recent projects see here
Her most recent book is Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking (Icon Books, and WW.Norton, 2021).
In 2019/20 she curated the acclaimed two part show ‘Matrescence and Maternality’ at Richard Saltoun Gallery in London.
In 2022/23 she was curator of the Exploring Radical Female Joy programme with Unit London.
Catherine has held teaching positons at University College London, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the University of Oxford.
Her current projects include a book on early modern women artists and one on Elena Ferrante, difference feminism and the art and politics of the Italian women’s movement.
Catherine has a PhD in Art History from UCL where she has worked as a Teaching Fellow and in 2016 she won the University of York’s international postdoctoral writing prize.
She regularly writes arts features for The New European newspaper and a selection of catalogue and artist texts for various institutions.
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