Antonia has been curating exhibitions for over 20 years. Beginning her career at The Barbican Art Gallery she became Senior Curator at Compton Verney before becoming a freelance curator.

Current projects include an exhibition on the material of glass. Opening in January 2024 The Glass Heart will explore the heart and soul of this unforgiving, fragile and strong material in the heart of London’s Two Temple Place. She has just completed curating a series of exhibitions exploring the cultural significance of the apple with partners including The National Trust & the Museum of Cider in Herefordshire.

At Compton Verney she researched and curated a number of significant thematic shows including A Tea Journey: from the mountains to the table; The Marvellous Mechanical Museum; The Arts & Crafts House: Then & Now; The Fabric of Myth (with James Young); Mary Newcomb: Nature’s Canvas as well as collaborations including What the Folk Say (with Paul Ryan), Outside In: Central; Alfred Wallis & Ben Nicholson; Van Gogh & Britain; Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing (with Marina Warner) and filmmaker and artist Peter Greenaway’s Tulse Luper.

Many of these exhibitions included commissions and new work by contemporary artists, designers, poets, landscape gardeners, performers, sound artists and musicians including: Timorous Beasties, Adam Buick, Ting Tong Chang, Sebastian Cox, Phoebe Cummings, Delaine Le Bas, Jane Edden, Mark Hearld, Tania Kovats, Mariele Neudecker, Rosa Nguyen, Selina Nwulu, Tim Lewis, Harrison Pearce, Dan Pearson, Paul Spooner, Julian Stair, Kurt Tong, Bouke de Vries, Shane Waltener and Andrew Wicks.

Antonia has an MA in History of Art & English Literature and prior to this went to Central St. Martin’s. She lives in a windswept farming village high on the Cotswold hills with her husband and daughter and Barney, a naughty border terrier.

Picture credits: top The Marvellous Mechanical Museum, above Phoebe Cummings ‘An Ugly Aside’ commissioned for A Tea Journey, copyright Compton Verney & Jamie Woodley photography.