Nicola Moorby (she/her) is Curator, British Art 1790-1850 at Tate. She is a specialist in British art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, British modernism, British watercolour and historic materials and techniques. Her early career was spent at Tate (2000-2011), where she variously worked as an assistant curator, cataloguer and as registrar and manager of the Prints and Drawings Rooms. She was a significant contributor to two Tate online research publications – The Camden Town Group in Context and J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours – and has extensive publishing credits, including as co-editor and author of the publication How to Paint Like Turner (Tate Publishing 2010). As an independent art historian (2011-2024) she was an accredited lecturer for the Arts Society and a regular teacher for the Short Courses department at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has curated exhibitions for Hampshire Cultural Trust (Turner and the Sun, 2017, and Constable: The Dark Side, 2023), and Turner’s House (Turner’s Kingdom: Beauty, Birds and Beasts, 2025). Her book, Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape is published by Yale University Press (2025).
