Helen Record is currently Assistant Curator of Collections at the Royal Academy of Arts. Focussing mostly on prints and drawings, she is involved with many aspects of collections research, curating, care and management. Her main research interests lie in 20th-century British printmaking and figurative painting.
Helen is also leading the RA Collections Decolonial Research Project, currently looking at the colonial associations of early Royal Academicians, 1768-c.1850. Before joining the Royal Academy, she worked at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and Dulwich Picture Gallery.
As co-lead of the Landscape Research Group, Helen is fascinated by the potential of landscape art to address issues in contemporary society such as wellbeing, access, and the environmental crisis.
