Dr Giorgia Bottinelli has an MA and PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a BA in History of Art from the University of Sussex. She started her career in 1998 as a Research Assistant, then Assistant Curator, at Tate. She has worked at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery since 2005, becoming Curator of Art in 2008. Since then, she has curated new displays for all the permanent British art galleries at Norwich Castle. Temporary exhibitions focusing on British art include A Passion for Landscape: Rediscovering John Crome (2021), John Sell Cotman in Norwich and London (2018), ‘to watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set’: The art of Claughton Pellew (2016), An Eye for Colour: John Joseph Cotman 1814-1878 (2014), Henry Bright: A Bicentenary (2010), Thinking on paper: Work in Progress (2009) and Great British Art? (2009). She has written and lectured extensively on art and was awarded a Curatorial Scholarship by the Yale Center for British Art in 2019. Her latest book, A Passion for Landscape: Rediscovering John Crome (2021), is the first major publication devoted to John Crome since 1978.
Professional Affiliations
- Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Membership Type
- Member