This exhibition is a collaboration between The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Arts, University of Birmingham, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
It has been curated by MA Art History and Curating students at the University of Birmingham.
Our Student Curators
Carol Ellis
Charlotte Kulidžan-Bolton
Isabella Murray
Jiayi Wang
Kexin Yan
Kyoungmin Park
Lorena Martínez Ramírez
Nan Ding
Taiba Aqeel
We would like to thank the following colleagues and specialists for their advice and support:
University of Birmingham
- Dr Michaela Giebelhausen
- Dr Claire Jones
Victoria and Albert Museum
- Dr Jenny Gaschke
- Ruth Hibbard
- Dr Rosalind McKever
- Dr Damiët Schneeweisz
Exhibition designed by John Morse-Brown and Paul Lacey, of Morse-Brown Design.
Exhibition funded by The Henry Barber Trust, The College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, and Research England.
We are especially grateful to Mrs Patricia Middleton (Daphne Foskett Collection) and to a Private Lender for permission to reproduce portrait miniatures from their collections.