Description
Our final winter talk will be given by Helen Ritchie, Senior Curator Modern & Contemporary Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge on Friday 9th January ay 7.30 pm.
Helen is responsible for researching, interpreting and curating modern and contemporary European Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Her research interests include contemporary crafts, design post-1850, British Studio Pottery, Artist/Designer metalwork and jewellery and the intersection between applied and fine art during the interwar period. In 2024, she was named by Apollo magazine as one of the top “40 under 40” in the world working in the field of craft.
Helen was the sole curator of the exhibition Designers and Jewellery 1850-1940: Jewellery and Metalwork from The Fitzwilliam Museum (2018) and author of the accompanying catalogue. She was the organising curator of exhibitions, Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge (2021-22), Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery, in partnership with Yale Center for British Art (2018) and Flux: Parian Ware at The Fitzwilliam Museum, in partnership with artist Matt Smith (2018)
