Francis Marshall is Senior Curator, Paintings, Prints & Drawings, at the Museum of London.
After training as a painter, he studied Art Gallery & Museum Studies, before writing his DPhil at Sussex University on RB Kitaj. His research interests focus chiefly on British art, photography and film from mid-20th century to the present day.
At MOL he has focused much of his attention on collections development, making a number of significant acquisitions, such as the purchase, in 2018, of Pierre Prévost’s 1815 panorama, London from the Tower of St Margaret’s Church, Westminster. Over 2016-18, he led the HLF Collecting Cultures project Beyond Documentary, which greatly expanded MOL’s holdings of conceptual photography. Commissioning has been a key activity, and since 2009 he has developed projects with, amongst other, the Singh Twins, Thomson & Craighead, Blast Theory, Gayle Chong Kwan and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen.
Over the course of his career, he has curated numerous exhibitions and displays, including Estuary (2013) at Museum of London Docklands, and Perspectives of Destruction (2016) at Museum of London. Currently, he is overseeing development of three galleries for the New Museum of London West Smithfield Project.
