Antonia has been curating exhibitions for over 20 years. She began curating at The Barbican Art Gallery before becoming Senior Curator at Compton Verney. She is now an independent freelance curator, writer and consultant.

Currently under development she is curating The Wonder of Birds at The Bodleian Library in Oxford (2026). A collaboration with artist Jackie Morris & writer Robert Macfarlane (to coincide with their forthcoming publication The Book of the Birds) the exhibition will also draw on the Bodleian Library’s extensive special collections and current Oxford research in the field of bird species and populations.

Recent projects include Rembrandt in Black & White with Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam (2025). In 2024 she devised and curated The Glass Heart at Two Temple Place which explored the process of producing glass and its links to both art & industry in the UK. She also curated a series of exhibitions exploring the cultural significance of Apples with partners including The National Trust & the Museum of Cider in Herefordshire (2023-4).

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 The Lost Words (with Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane) 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 (Edinburgh University) and went to Central St. Martin’s College of Art.

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