Catriona Pearson

Career summary

MA (Hons) in History of Art, University of St Andrews.

MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, Newcastle University.

Curatorial Assistant at the Laing Art Gallery primarily working on the Great British Art Debate, and at the Shipley Art Gallery researching portraits in the TWAM collection.

Areas of interest / research

Early portrait photography.

Painted portraits 17th century to present.

17th Century Dutch painting; Aestheticism, and a wide interest in Modernism with previous research into Mondrian.

I am currently researching various portraits in North East collections.