This summer I had the opportunity to curate a wonderful exhibition. Bonhams, who sponsor the Artist in Residence programme at the Scott Polar Research Institute, kindly offered us the use of their showrooms in New Bond Street to hold a temporary exhibition. We eagerly took them up on their offer, and decided not only to …
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The Curious Incident of the Brown Dog
I was recently interviewed on Radio 4 in a programme about the history of vivisection. You can listen to the programme here. Or, you can read an earlier blog post I wrote about the little brown dog here. Scenes from student life The seemingly innocuous statue of a small dog, in Battersea Park in London, …
Top polar reads: what do you recommend?
I’ve been the curator of the Polar Museum for a little over a month, and unsurprisingly the learning curve has been steep! As well as getting to grips with the running of the museum and all the practicalities that come with that, I’m trying to very quickly get up to speed with the history of …