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Not to be confused with Gil Saunders.

Gill Saunders (born 1956) is a senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, an author, and broadcaster.[1][2][3]

Early career and education

Gill Saunders was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, and the University of Leicester.[citation needed]

Career since joining the Victoria and Albert Museum

Saunders joined the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in 1979 and became the Senior Curator of Prints in 2006. Her expertise is mainly in 20th century and contemporary prints, drawings and paintings. In 2010 she co-curated Walls Are Talking, an exhibition of wallpapers by contemporary artists, at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and in 2011 Surface Noise, a show of innovative contemporary printmaking at the Jerwood Space in London. In 2012, for the British Council, she curated a loan exhibition of street art prints, which toured in Libya. For the V&A she has devised a number of UK touring exhibitions, including Modern Masters in Print: Matisse, Picasso, Dali and Warhol (2015–17), Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture (2015–16), and Pop Art in Print (2017–18).[4] She is an Honorary Member of the Printmakers Council[5] and wrote an essay on Emma Stibbon for the book Territories of Print 1994-2019 which accompanied her retrospective at the Rabbley Drawing Centre Gallery.[6]

Publications

  • Saunders, Gill (August 1989). The Nude: A New Perspective. Cambridge: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-430189-3.
  • Saunders, Gill (4 September 1995). Picturing Plants:An Analytical History of Botanical Illustrations. ISBN 0-520-20306-2.
  • Saunders, Gill (1 September 2002). Wallpaper in Interior Decoration. Watson-Guptill. ISBN 0-8230-5622-8.
  • Saunders, Gill, ed. (3 October 2011). Recording Britain (1 ed.). V & A Publishing. ISBN 1-85177-661-3.

References

  1. ^ "Gill Saunders". Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  2. ^ Reeds, K. (1996). "Book Review: Picturing Plants: An Analytical History of Botanical Illustration". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 70 (4): 753–754. doi:10.1353/bhm.1996.0166.
  3. ^ "Surface Noise". Contemporary Art Magazine. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
  4. ^ "Gill Saunders". thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Honorary Members | Printmakers Council". Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  6. ^ EMMA STIBBON : territories of print 1994-2019. [S.l.]: RABLEY DRAWING CENTRE. 2019. ISBN 0-9926817-8-2. OCLC 1132419168.
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