Work Experience Diaries: Part 3
My Art Collections Work Experience Diary, July 2025 Written by Erin Ruiz I have been fortunate to be able to spend two days doing a work experience placement at the […]
Work Experience Diaries: Part 2
My Art Collections Work Experience Diary, July 2025 Written by Winki Wang, Year 10 at The Holt School I recently had the opportunity to spend two days undertaking work experience […]
Work Experience Diaries: Part 1
My Art Collections Work Experience Diary, July 2025 Written by Xionne Cooper, Year 10 at The Holt School My name is Xionne and I am a Year 10 student at […]
Painting Pandoras: A Volunteer’s Reinterpretation
Abby McCormac, our Curatorial Volunteer, discusses her participation in the Youth Panel’s exhibition of Pandora Unboxed. John Dickson Batten’s painting, Pandora, portrays the first mortal woman of Greek mythology in […]
Kathleen Hale: Before the illustrations of Orlando
For her placement module, 3rd Year History Student, Holly Whapshott has been researching some of our most recent acquisitions by artist Kathleen Hale In March 2022, the University Art Collection bought […]
Top Five Fears: The Darker Side of the Collection
This blog is an adaptation of our Museum Studies placement student, Shona Amer’s recent Twitter thread, where she delved into the scarier parts of our collection for Halloween. Art is […]
Women by Women
For International Women’s Month, Georgie Hollands-Gray, a second year Museum Studies student on placement with the University Art Collection, highlights women artists and looks to promote their work “In actuality, […]
Portraiture and the Art Collection
Cerys Cartwright, a third-year art student on placement with the University Art Collection explores portraiture in the University Art Collection I have been fortunate enough to spend several weeks working […]
Curating during Covid-19: A volunteer art student’s experience curating accessible art
Laura Rozamunda Allsopp-Huddle shares her experience volunteering with the University Art Collection during COVID-19. Earlier this year, from January to April, I worked for the University of Reading’s Art Collection […]
Going Global: A Student Exhibition
Our outgoing placement student, Laura May Bailey, describes her experience at the Art Collection, and curation of a new Ladybird Gallery exhibition. Somehow, I find myself in the eighth and […]