Angela Thomas, Art Gallery Curator

Career summary

Curator of Mining Art – The Auckland Project

Exhibitions Curator – The Auckland Project

Art Gallery Curator – Hartlepool Art Gallery

Areas of interest / research

Working class artists
Working class portraiture
Twentieth century portraiture
Early portrait photography
Twenty-first century portrait photography

Details of books/publications relating to your work on British portraiture

‘Who Wore the Trousers? The Pit Brow Lasses’, Culture North magazine, 10 October 2018
‘5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Bevin Boys’, BBC History Extra Magazine, 6 May 2018
The need for temporary exhibitions Understanding British Portraits network (blog post)
The Bevin Boys: War’s Forgotten Workforce (exhibition catalogue)