Dr Jo Meacock (she/her) is Curator of British Art at Glasgow Life Museums, responsible for paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings, 1600-1960. She gained her MA History of Art (Hons, first class) at the University of Glasgow in 1997, followed by a PhD in 2001 examining D. G. Rossetti’s secularisation of religious iconography. Formerly the Scottish Regional Research Manager for the Public Catalogue Foundation, Jo has also worked as Data Editing Manager for the National Inventory Research Project, Research Associate for James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings: A Catalogue Raisonné, and Editor for Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. She is a Trustee of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust and member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History. She has published widely on Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism, Scottish nineteenth and early twentieth-century art and women artists. Recent publications include Introducing Joseph Crawhall (2022) and Painting for my Life: The Holocaust artworks of Marianne Grant, co-authored with Peter Tuka, Deborah Haase and Paula Cowan (2021). She is currently working on a book on the Pre-Raphaelites and Scotland.
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