CURRENT APPOINTMENT
Zurbarán Doctoral Scholar, Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art, Durham University.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 – Art History Teaching Assistant, Durham University
2021-2023 Art History Research Assistant, Durham University
2022 – Treasurer, ARTES Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group
2022 – 2024 Student member, Zurbaran Centre Steering Board, Durham University
2018 – 2021 Independent print dealer, Richard Jacques Old And Modern Master Prints
2007 – 2017 Chair of the Governing Body, British Institute of Florence, Florence
EDUCATION
Ongoing PhD in History of Art and Architecture, Zurbarán Centre, Durham University.
Dissertation: The Lexicon of Suffering in the Devotional Works of Francisco de Zurbarán.
Supervisors: Prof. Andrew Beresford and Prof. Claudia Hopkins
2021 MA in History of Art, Distinction, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Dissertation: Gaspar Becerra and the concept of disegno in sixteenth-century Spain.
Supervisor: Prof. Guido Rebecchini
2020 Graduate Diploma in History of Art, Distinction, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Dissertation: Sensing the Divine – Touch and Tactility in Zurbarán’s Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth.
Supervisor: Prof. Sheila McTighe
1990 Bachelor of Divinity in Christian Theology, Kings College, University of London.
Dissertation: The Theology of Creation in the Church Dogmatics of Karl Barth.
Supervisor: Prof. Colin Gunton
AWARDS
2021 Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: Zurbarán Doctoral Scholarship, Durham University.
2020 The Courtauld Institute of Art: The Director’s Prize
SELECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
Papers
Cloth on Cloth: Fabric and the Visual Language of Francisco de Zurbarán. Renaissance Society of America 71st Annual Meeting, Boston (20-22 February 2025).
Suffering Made Real in Francisco de Zurbarán’s Portrayal of the Lamb of God. IV Durham-Northumbria Colloquium of Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies (9-11 July 2024).
Francisco de Zurbarán: ‘The Ornament of the City’. The Spanish Gallery, Bishop Auckland (20 June 2024).
Cloth, Skin and Blood: The Making of a True Icon in Francisco de Zurbarán’s Veronicas. University College Cork Spanish Golden Age Symposium. (24-26 November 2023).
Zurbarán’s Transformation of the Body in Pain. Emerging Researchers Symposium, Durham University (22-23 July 2023).
The Anatomy of a Crisis – Juan Bautista Maíno’s Copatronazgo and the Struggle for Spanish Identity. Hispanic Art in British Regional Collections: History, Display, Research, Durham University (22-23 September 2022).
Visions of Majesty: Saintly Kings and the Making of the Hapsburg Image. CVAC Visual Intersections Summer School, Durham University (13-15 June 2022).
Publications
Forthcoming title: Juan Bautista Maíno’s Copatronazgo and the Struggle for Spanish Identity, expected 2025/6 (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, Madrid).
Article: ‘Can you see hope?’ in Hope Springs Eternal, ed. Daniel Cronin (St. Paul’s Publishing, London).
Online publication: Spanish Art in County Durham, 2023 (Zurbarán Centre, Durham University).
Catalogue essay: ‘The Rest on the Flight into Egypt’ in The Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at The Courtauld, 2022 (Paul Holberton Press, London).
The Arts of Golden Age Spain and the Hispanic World 