Eleanor Clayton is Curator at The Hepworth Wakefield (THW) and a specialist in British Modernism. Following her MA ‘Modernism in Britain: 1890-1970’ at the Courtauld Institute of Art, she was Assistant Curator: Public Programmes at Tate Britain (2008 – 2010), and Assistant Curator: Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Liverpool (2010-2014).
At THW, Clayton has curated major exhibitions of British Modern art including Anthony Caro (2015), Stanley Spencer: Of Angels and Dirt (2016), Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain (2018), Alan Davie & David Hockney: Early Works (2019), Bill Brandt / Henry Moore (2020), and Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life (2021). Her curatorial practice is rooted in primary archival research, and she has drawn on this in published writing on British Surrealism (Lund Humphries 2018), and Henry Moore’s collages (Yale University Press, 2020) among other topics. She is currently on the AAH Curatorial Committee.
