Hattie Spires is an AHRC Collaborative PhD student at The Courtauld Institute of Art and Tate Britain. Her research examines the cross-cultural exchanges between artists of the Harlem Renaissance and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s and is supervised by Professor Dorothy Price and Dr Elena Crippa. She is currently Associate Editor of the Courtauld’s Immediations journal.
Previously, Hattie has collaborated with artists and worked in curatorial roles at Hayward Touring assisting on British Art Show 7 (2010), Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing (2013), Listening (2014) and at Tate Britain where she worked on Rachel Whiteread (2017), All Too Human (2018) and Van Gogh and Britain (2019). Recent publications include two short volumes Van Gogh: Tate Introductions (2019) and Summer: Highlights from the Tate Collection (2020).
Hattie studied History and Theory of Art & English Language at the University of Kent. She gained a diploma in Arts Management from Birkbeck and a Masters from Goldsmiths College during which time her research centred around space and place and the increasingly nomadic nature of site-specific art.