Annette Wickham is Curator of Works on Paper at the Royal Academy of Arts which holds a collection of over 30,000 prints, drawings, watercolours and designs dating from the 16th century to the present day. She has curated and co-curated numerous displays and exhibitions at the RA including Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape (2013) and Daniel Maclise: The Waterloo Cartoon (2015).
Research interests include the history of art education and of the Royal Academy. Recent publications include ‘Designs by John Gibson for the Gibson Gallery at the Royal Academy of Arts’ with Anna Frasca-Rath, The Burlington Magazine, October 2020, Laura Knight RA: A Working Life with Helen Valentine (2019) and chapters in The Royal Academy: History and Collections (2018).
Annette was previously an Assistant Curator at the V&A Museum and studied at Manchester University and the Courtauld Institute of Art.
She is convenor of the British Drawings group.
