Rebecca Birrell, Assistant Keeper of Paintings Prints and Drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and a Mansfield Alumna, on her dazzling new work of group biography and art criticism.

Rebecca Birrell was born in Liverpool in 1991. She studied English Literature at UCL, then Women’s Studies at The University of Oxford. She has occupied curatorial positions at the Jewish Museum London, The Department of Prints and Drawing at The British Museum and at The Charleston Trust. In 2018 she undertook a fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art. While finishing her PhD at the Edinburgh College of Art, she worked on the photographic archive at The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust. She is currently Assistant Keeper of Paintings, Prints and Drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.