Helen Persson Biography
Pair of evening shoes in silk satin with a Wedgwood heel, manufactured by Rayne, Great Britain, 1960s, T.360-1996, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Name: Helen Persson
Role: Curator, Shoes: Pleasure and Pain Exhibition
Research Interests
My special interests include the transformative capacity of shoes, Chinese export textiles and the archaeologist Sir Aurel Stein (1863-1943).
Selected Research Outputs
Exhibition “Shoes: Pleasure and Pain”, June 2015
Selected Published Writings/ Papers
Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, V&A Publications, 2016 (to accompany the above exhibition)
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