Kate Haselden is Assistant Curator at Tate Liverpool. She was Research Fellow for the Understanding British Portraits network from 2023 – 2024, completing the project ‘The Unnamed Black Subject: Revealing hidden narratives in William L. Windus’ The Black Boy’. It was the first time that the portrait, which depicts a young Black child in Liverpool in 1844, had received dedicated research. The project was the subject of national and international coverage by The Guardian, BBC News North West, BBC Radio 4, and Smithsonian Magazine. She is now Assistant Curator of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Liverpool.
Kate studied English Literature at the University of Oxford. After graduating with a master’s degree in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester, she now specialises in curating art and the presence of Black subjects in nineteenth century British portraiture.
