Albert Adams: In Context – About Our Speakers

Alice Correia is an art historian. Her research examines late twentieth-century British art, with a specific focus on artists of African, Caribbean, and South Asian heritage. She is currently Research Curator at Touchstones Rochdale, working on the exhibition: The Radical Decade: Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s (forthcoming 2023). She is also working on a monograph provisionally titled, South Asian Women Artists in Britain. Her articles have appeared in Art History; British Art Studies; Journal of British Visual Culture; and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. She is Chair of Trustees of the journal Third Text.

Elena Crippa is Senior Curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain, where she leads on the research, acquisition and display of artworks from the twentieth and twentieth-first century, with a focus on the post-war period. She has organised numerous exhibitions, edited publications and curated displays of Tate’s permanent collection, including spotlight presentations of the work of Marie Yates, 2021–22; Kim Lim, 2020–21; Derek Jarman, 2017; and Jo Spence, 2015. Recent exhibitions include Paula Rego, Tate Britain, Kunstmuseum Den Haag and Museo Picasso Malaga, 2021–22; Frank Bowling, Tate Britain, 2019; Objects of Wonder, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2019; All Too Human, Tate Britain and National Gallery, Budapest, 2018–19; and London Calling, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2016. Previously, she taught in various universities, was a lecturer for the MRes course in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and conducted her doctoral research as part of the Leverhulme-funded Tate Research project ‘Art School Educated’, 2009-14. She has published extensively on post-war exhibition design and history, the relationship between performance and sculpture in 1960-70s Britain and painting in post-war London.

Christine Eyene is Guild Research Fellow in Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her current research focuses on: South African photographer George Hallett (1970s-80s), Britain’s Black Arts (1980s), contemporary African art, gendered perspectives in contemporary art, sound art and non-object-based art practices. Other interests include: socially-engaged urban cultures, experimental sound, music and design. Her other areas of research include Britain’s Black Art (1980s), representations of the body, gender narratives, performance art and urban culture. She has been visual arts co-editor of French journal Africultures since 2002 and has contributed to the field of contemporary African art through her writings in journals, exhibition catalogues and books. She has recently been appointed Guild Research Fellow – Contemporary Art, at the University of Central Lancashire, joining the team of Making Histories Visible, an interdisciplinary visual art research project based at UCLan’s Centre for Contemporary Art led by Lubaina Himid MBE, Professor of Contemporary Art.

Professor Jackie Kay CBE served as Chancellor of the University of Salford and Writer in Residence 2015-2021, during this time working closely with the Art Collection and writing a number of poems in response to acquired and commissioned artworks, which are often exhibitied alongside the work.

Alexandra Lawson works as a Painting Conservator at Tate and the Houses of Parliament. She has a background in History of Art, with an MA from the University of St Andrews, and a postgraduate degree in the Conservation of Easel Paintings from the Courtauld Institute. Since graduating in 2018 she has conserved a wide range of paintings from Tudor panels to modern and contemporary art. She has worked in private practice and for institutions including the V&A, The Guildhall and the National Trust. She carried out research into Albert Adams’ materials and techniques while treating the painting from 2016-18, and has recently published the conservation treatment in The Picture Restorer journal.

Greg Salter is a lecturer in art history at the University of Birmingham. His research explores art from Britain since 1945, particularly through the lens of gender and sexuality. He published his book Art And Masculinity In Post-War Britain: Reconstructing Home in 2019, which examines work by John Bratby, Francis Bacon, Keith Vaughan, Francis Newton Souza, Victor Pasmore, and Gilbert & George. His current research project explores queer transnational histories in art from Britain since 1960.

Allan Walker is Dean of the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology at the University of Salford. He has led the School since its formation in 2012, ensuring a close connection with the creative industries and with the regeneration of Salford as a city of culture. He is a senior academic with extensive experience of research, enterprise and academic development at national and international levels. He has lectured and delivered papers internationally, including as Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Arts. As a print media artist and researcher, he co-founded Eyecon and for ten years was a Strategic Reviewer for the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has work in collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, and the Machida Museum of Art, Japan.