I am a curator and object historian with a specialism in decorative art and jewellery, curious about processes of making and the symbolic and sensory resonance of materials. A vital part of my curatorial practice is listening to people’s stories and acting as a liaison between creative people and historic objects. I have made films, exhibitions and written about things like gemstones, enamels, gold, silver and mosaics.

Birmingham Jewellery Biennial Exhibition · Curator

Elemental Forces in Early Modern Culture: Properties, Combinations, and Transformations, Eds. Zorach, Swan, Allington-Wood & Morris, Brill (forthcoming) · Co-editor & contributing author

“Jet Power”, Jewellery History Today, Issue 55, Winter · Author

Lives of the Great Makers: 500 Years of Creative Excellence, Thames & Hudson / V&A · Contributing author, chapters on “The Castellani” and “Charlotte de Syllas”

“The Enduring Appeal of Micromosaic Jewellery”, Jewellery History Today, Issue 52, Winter · Author

Le Goût de la Renaissance: Un dialogue entre collections, Centre des monuments nationaux, Paris · Contributing author, “Succession: Crafting and Collecting Ancestral Hardstones in Renaissance Europe”

“An A to Z of Gemstones”, Victoria and Albert Museum, web article · Author

Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) · Contributing author & exhibition research assistant

The Art of Stone: Masterpieces from the Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Collection, V&A Publishing · Contributing author

“Questioning our Values: Interview with Francesca DiMattio”, Ceramic Review · Author

“Elemental Forces” conference, The Newberry, Chicago · Co-organiser

About Face: 17th-Century Portrait Miniatures & Drawings from the Royal Collection, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts · Co-curator