I’ve been doing curatorial work for 25 years. As I child I loved museums and used to spend my pocket money collecting their postcards of portraits, costumes, and four-poster-beds. When I graduated from Royal Holloway University of London with a degree in English Literature I decided to try and find a job in museums.
Whilst I was temping part-time, I volunteered at museums in Bristol, where I’m from originally, and Bath, where I learnt how to handle, pack and catalogue objects before getting a place to study Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
At this stage, while the history of dress and textiles are my passion, I didn’t think I would be able to get a curatorial job related to them as they are few and far between, so I focused on developing skills and knowledge of collections management and digitisation.
