Catherine is an author, independent curator and consultant lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the University of Oxford
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 teaches at 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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