Martha Clewlow

Martha Clewlow is a curator and archivist, currently Assistant Archive Curator at Tate. Their research interests include Global Modernisms, Queer histories, and alternative archives. While working at the Science Museum, London they established a project at the Museum to research the representation of gender and sexuality, and visibility of LGBTQ+ narratives in the Museum’s cataloguing and interpretation. This led to their participation in ‘Outer Edge. Queer(y)ing STEM Collections’ at the Technisches Museum, Vienna in March 2020, and Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden’s ‘Collecting Sexualities’ conference in March 2021 (contributing a chapter to Sexualitäten sammeln: Ansprüche und Widersprüche im Museum). Martha has curated exhibitions at the Science Museum and the Charles Dickens Museum, and contributed interpretation to Camden Council Art Collection, and redeveloping the interpretation of the Marx-Lambert Collection at Compton Verney Gallery as part of a 2021 research fellowship with University of Oxford. They are preparing to undertake a PhD on the concept of Postmodern Queerness, exploring embodiments of queerness in the visual arts beyond the figurative.