Ex Libris Jane Hill
Freelance Writer (since 1987), Social Historian, Author and Curator of (principally but not solely) C20th Modern British Art, contributing essays to group authored books: Allgemeines Kunstlerlexicon (AKL) Die Bildenden Kunstler aller Zeiten und Volker ‘Artists of the World' K. G. Saur Verlag 1996 (Dora Carrington); The Dictionary of Women Artists (Dora Carrington & Betty Swanwick RA) Fitzroy Dearborn 1997; Sculpture in 20th-century Britain Henry Moore Institute 2004 (Gertrude Hermes RA); the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2006 (Dee Wells, co-author Alan Brien); Uproar! The First 50 Years of the London Group 1913-63 (Gertrude Hermes RA) Ben Uri / Lund Humphries 2013; Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists 1900 – 1950 (Gertrude Hermes RA) Liss Llewellyn 2018; and writing across the board (obituaries, features and articles) for newspapers, journals, online and printed magazines, amongst them Charleston Magazine, RA Magazine, Selvedge, SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) Magazine, The World of Interiors.
Author of The Art of Dora Carrington, The Herbert Press, 1994 (& still in print), and The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes, Lund Humphries in association with The Henry Moore Foundation (British Sculptors & Sculpture series), 2011. Each publication was a long distance project, researched using primary source material and followed by major retrospectives. Proposer, Selector, Co-Designer and Curator of Carrington: the Exhibition, The Barbican Art Gallery, 1995 (Consultant on Carrington, the Christopher Hampton feature film, also 1995) & Wild Girl: Gertrude Hermes, The Hepworth Wakefield, 2015 - 2016.
Grant Officer, since 2017, for Lady Gould's Charity; and Consultant Editor, Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution newsletter, a voluntary post. My role as Co-Applicant and Research Assistant on the NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) VALID project (Valuing Active Living in Dementia), 2009-2017, led to my involvement (curtailed by Covid 19) with the Social Work Department of London Metropolitan University as a Co-Teacher (Service User and Carer Involvement), in the School of Social Professions (Admissions' interviews, Skills Days, Steering & Stakeholder Groups).
Historically, administrative roles, in the voluntary sector, have included post as Administrator of The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution / HLSI / Independent Libraries Association (Arts & Education), responsible for the day to day running of the Institution's annual timetable, working with volunteer Management Committees, overseeing Archives, Art Gallery, Courses, Heritage Fairs, 2002-2004, leaving to concentrate on my commissioned book The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes; Events Officer for Common Ground (Arts & the Environment), 1985, making links between the conservation of nature, the arts and our cultural landscapes; Projects: Andy Goldsworthy exhibition at the Ecology Centre, Covent Garden; facilitating the Goldsworthy residency on Hampstead Heath and the Artists’ Parish Maps exhibition; Project Co-Ordinator for the international arts-access organisation Interlink (Arts without Barriers), 1983, establishing Sound Adventure Playgrounds for children with disabilities in the UK, beginning with Weavers Fields, Bethnal Green.
Further curatorial involvement (voluntary) undertaken 1980-1983 for (amongst others) the Geffrye Museum / Museum of the Home (mounting the Shelley Potteries exhibition); the Silver Studio Collection MoDA / Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (cataloguing textile and wallpaper designs); the V&A Dept. of Furniture (cataloguing C18th chairs) and, in 1992, The Sovereign exhibition: Fifty Years of the Queen's Reign, also at the V&A, selecting objects to represent the Orders of Chivalry (including the Royal Designers for Industry).
I was a Visual Arts Assessor for London Arts (voluntary), reviewing exhibitions, 1999-2002; and have regularly returned to volunteer at the International Musicians’ Seminar (Cornwall, Prussia Cove), since 1999.
Happy Collaborator, experienced Researcher (pictures, objects & texts), Lecturer, Broadcaster, and Consultant for film and TV, books and exhibitions. Natural Archives dweller. Whilst continuing to comment on art, contribute articles on interiors and unearth underappreciated artists, an enthusiasm for oral history, the peculiar or lesser known and all things Green translates at present into book ideas germinating around C17th women philanthropists, the ethos of a Backlands way of life and a first fiction, a novel.
National Sound Archive training course (British Library National Life Stories) 2004. Digital Video Practice for Artists and Designers (Level One), WEA 2010 (Project: The Highgate Bowl).
Member of The Society of Authors (since 1993) and the Association of Art Historians (since 1995). Writer in Residence, Hosking Houses Trust, 2008.
Freelance Writer (since 1987), Social Historian, Author and Curator of (principally but not solely) C20th Modern British Art, contributing essays to group authored books: Allgemeines Kunstlerlexicon (AKL) Die Bildenden Kunstler aller Zeiten und Volker ‘Artists of the World' K. G. Saur Verlag 1996 (Dora Carrington); The Dictionary of Women Artists (Dora Carrington & Betty Swanwick RA) Fitzroy Dearborn 1997; Sculpture in 20th-century Britain Henry Moore Institute 2004 (Gertrude Hermes RA); the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2006 (Dee Wells, co-author Alan Brien); Uproar! The First 50 Years of the London Group 1913-63 (Gertrude Hermes RA) Ben Uri / Lund Humphries 2013; Fifty Works by Fifty British Women Artists 1900 – 1950 (Gertrude Hermes RA) Liss Llewellyn 2018; and writing across the board (obituaries, features and articles) for newspapers, journals, online and printed magazines, amongst them Charleston Magazine, RA Magazine, Selvedge, SPAB (Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings) Magazine, The World of Interiors.
Author of The Art of Dora Carrington, The Herbert Press, 1994 (& still in print), and The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes, Lund Humphries in association with The Henry Moore Foundation (British Sculptors & Sculpture series), 2011. Each publication was a long distance project, researched using primary source material and followed by major retrospectives. Proposer, Selector, Co-Designer and Curator of Carrington: the Exhibition, The Barbican Art Gallery, 1995 (Consultant on Carrington, the Christopher Hampton feature film, also 1995) & Wild Girl: Gertrude Hermes, The Hepworth Wakefield, 2015 - 2016.
Grant Officer, since 2017, for Lady Gould's Charity; and Consultant Editor, Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution newsletter, a voluntary post. My role as Co-Applicant and Research Assistant on the NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) VALID project (Valuing Active Living in Dementia), 2009-2017, led to my involvement (curtailed by Covid 19) with the Social Work Department of London Metropolitan University as a Co-Teacher (Service User and Carer Involvement), in the School of Social Professions (Admissions' interviews, Skills Days, Steering & Stakeholder Groups).
Historically, administrative roles, in the voluntary sector, have included post as Administrator of The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution / HLSI / Independent Libraries Association (Arts & Education), responsible for the day to day running of the Institution's annual timetable, working with volunteer Management Committees, overseeing Archives, Art Gallery, Courses, Heritage Fairs, 2002-2004, leaving to concentrate on my commissioned book The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes; Events Officer for Common Ground (Arts & the Environment), 1985, making links between the conservation of nature, the arts and our cultural landscapes; Projects: Andy Goldsworthy exhibition at the Ecology Centre, Covent Garden; facilitating the Goldsworthy residency on Hampstead Heath and the Artists’ Parish Maps exhibition; Project Co-Ordinator for the international arts-access organisation Interlink (Arts without Barriers), 1983, establishing Sound Adventure Playgrounds for children with disabilities in the UK, beginning with Weavers Fields, Bethnal Green.
Further curatorial involvement (voluntary) undertaken 1980-1983 for (amongst others) the Geffrye Museum / Museum of the Home (mounting the Shelley Potteries exhibition); the Silver Studio Collection MoDA / Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (cataloguing textile and wallpaper designs); the V&A Dept. of Furniture (cataloguing C18th chairs) and, in 1992, The Sovereign exhibition: Fifty Years of the Queen's Reign, also at the V&A, selecting objects to represent the Orders of Chivalry (including the Royal Designers for Industry).
I was a Visual Arts Assessor for London Arts (voluntary), reviewing exhibitions, 1999-2002; and have regularly returned to volunteer at the International Musicians’ Seminar (Cornwall, Prussia Cove), since 1999.
Happy Collaborator, experienced Researcher (pictures, objects & texts), Lecturer, Broadcaster, and Consultant for film and TV, books and exhibitions. Natural Archives dweller. Whilst continuing to comment on art, contribute articles on interiors and unearth underappreciated artists, an enthusiasm for oral history, the peculiar or lesser known and all things Green translates at present into book ideas germinating around C17th women philanthropists, the ethos of a Backlands way of life and a first fiction, a novel.
National Sound Archive training course (British Library National Life Stories) 2004. Digital Video Practice for Artists and Designers (Level One), WEA 2010 (Project: The Highgate Bowl).
Member of The Society of Authors (since 1993) and the Association of Art Historians (since 1995). Writer in Residence, Hosking Houses Trust, 2008.
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