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Gill Saunders (born 1956) is a senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, an author, and broadcaster. [1] [2] [3]
Gill Saunders was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, and the University of Leicester.[ citation needed]
Saunders joined the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in 1979 and became the Senior Curator of Prints in 2006. Her expertise is mainly in 20th century and contemporary prints, drawings and paintings. In 2010 she co-curated Walls Are Talking, an exhibition of wallpapers by contemporary artists, at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and in 2011 Surface Noise, a show of innovative contemporary printmaking at the Jerwood Space in London. In 2012, for the British Council, she curated a loan exhibition of street art prints, which toured in Libya. For the V&A she has devised a number of UK touring exhibitions, including Modern Masters in Print: Matisse, Picasso, Dali and Warhol (2015–17), Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture (2015–16), and Pop Art in Print (2017–18). [4] She is an Honorary Member of the Printmakers Council [5] and wrote an essay on Emma Stibbon for the book Territories of Print 1994–2019 which accompanied her retrospective at the Rabbley Drawing Centre Gallery. [6]
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Gill Saunders (born 1956) is a senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, an author, and broadcaster. [1] [2] [3]
Gill Saunders was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, and the University of Leicester.[ citation needed]
Saunders joined the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in 1979 and became the Senior Curator of Prints in 2006. Her expertise is mainly in 20th century and contemporary prints, drawings and paintings. In 2010 she co-curated Walls Are Talking, an exhibition of wallpapers by contemporary artists, at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and in 2011 Surface Noise, a show of innovative contemporary printmaking at the Jerwood Space in London. In 2012, for the British Council, she curated a loan exhibition of street art prints, which toured in Libya. For the V&A she has devised a number of UK touring exhibitions, including Modern Masters in Print: Matisse, Picasso, Dali and Warhol (2015–17), Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture (2015–16), and Pop Art in Print (2017–18). [4] She is an Honorary Member of the Printmakers Council [5] and wrote an essay on Emma Stibbon for the book Territories of Print 1994–2019 which accompanied her retrospective at the Rabbley Drawing Centre Gallery. [6]