Show+Tell+Share

Catherine Ince replaced Sandra Smith as Project Lead responsible for the object and public engagement strands of the project in 2019. Catherine is Chief Curator, V&A East. One of the world's most significant new museum projects, V&A East will comprise two sister sites currently under construction in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Until November 2015, Catherine was a curator at the Barbican Art Gallery where she made major survey exhibitions and publications including The World of Charles and Ray Eames (2015), Bauhaus: Art as Life (2012) and Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (2011). She is a Trustee of the Architecture Foundation, a Trustee of the Jencks Foundation and Cosmic House Museum, and chairs the Advisory Board of Stanley Picker Gallery and Dorich House Museum at Kingston University. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. see less

As project co-lead, Kati is responsible for the data strand of the project. As Head of Experience and Digital at the V&A, Kati leads content development across digital and print, and explores ways that technology can help improve the visitor experience – both online and in our buildings. Having worked in the design industry for 20 years, Kati brings a human centred design approach to her work and has led the development of award-winning digital products and experiences. Kati graduated from Durham University with a joint honours in Geography and Anthropology, and holds an MA in History of Design from the V&A/Royal College of Art. see less

Appointed as early career research fellow in 2018, Cara began her fellowship reviewing existing and exploring potential object access opportunities in the museum - with a specific focus on museum stores and object delivery mechanisms. Inspired by storage spaces, her research has developed to explore and design affective object-person encounters through themes including serendipity. Cara is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work sits between geography and the arts and humanities. In 2018 she gained her PhD from the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London for her study into the spaces and making processes of amateur theatre-making. Cara holds an MA in Cultural Geography from Royal Holloway and a BA (Hons) in Human Geography from the University of Exeter. She is also currently a postdoctoral researcher at Royal Holloway researching the role of theatre in towns. see less

Matilda is exploring ways to increase the social relevance and reach of the V&A's collections working closely with members of the V & A East team, artists, designers, and makers. Matilda has worked in public programmes in museums and galleries for more than 18 years including Tate, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Museums Greenwich, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and the V&A. Her roles have involved broadening and deepening engagement with collections, consciously blurring the edges between learning and curatorial practice and often working and producing collaboratively with artists, designers, and makers. Matilda works internationally, developing programmes and knowledge exchange, most recently with museum professionals in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Russia and China. She trained as an artist at the University of Oxford / Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and was a postgraduate at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht. She is currently an AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium funded CDA PhD candidate working on Art Institutions and the Future of Civic Learning with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and the University of Northumbria. She co-edited with Dr Linda Sandino, Artists Work in Museums: Histories, Interventions and Subjectivities (Wunderkammer Press, 2013). see less

Appointed as research fellow in 2020, Thomas is investigating how technology can be used to explore and express the aims of the programme. He has ten years of experience creating interactive exhibitions and installations for museums, artists and corporate entities including the Science Museum, the Wellcome Collection and the Museum of Science and Industry. Thomas is particularly interested in the limits of digital information and trying to emphasise the material nature of objects. He has a BSc(Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Cardiff. see less

The Show+Tell+Share research project began in 2018. Sandra Smith, former V&A Head of Conservation, initiated the project with Kati Price and was co-lead until she moved to a new role at the British Museum in 2019. Dr Julian Hartley was the first Data Research Fellow and concluded his contribution to the project in 2020. Sandra was responsible for the object and public engagement strands of the project. As former Head of Conservation and Technical Services she had an overview of the risks and vulnerabilities of collections and the way in which these can be mitigated to ensure that even the most fragile objects can be studied, displayed and sent around the world on loan or as part of tours. With over 30 years of experience in the care of collections Sandra has an extensive overview of materials within museum collections, and encouraged her team to find innovative solutions preservation, presentation and access to collections; the Conservation team have won several national awards for this work. Sandra graduated from The Institute of Archaeology (UCL) with an honours degree in Archaeological Conservation and Material Science, and is an accredited member of the Institute of Conservation (ACR Icon), and Fellow of the International Institute of Conservation (FIIC) and Society of Antiquaries (FSA). see less

The Show+Tell+Share research project began in 2018. Sandra Smith, former V&A Head of Conservation, initiated the project with Kati Price and was co-lead until she moved to a new role at the British Museum in 2019. Dr Julian Hartley was the first Data Research Fellow and concluded his contribution to the project in 2020. Appointed as research fellow in 2018, Julian reviewed museum practices and explored new technologies and innovative data configurations. Julian’s area of interest and expertise is concerned with the way digital technology changes, and challenges, the spaces publics operate within. The work on this project looked beyond the museum world and investigated the way data impacts on society and culture. Julian was previously researcher in residence at the award-winning Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester and holds an MA in Museology and a PhD in digital heritage from the University of Manchester. see less