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)