Curators in Conversation: Dr Melissa Gustin, National Museums Liverpool
On Wednesday 20 November, at 2 pm (venue: Arts Seminar 7), Kirsty Hassard, a curator at the V&A Dundee and a graduate of our Museum and Heritage MLitt programme here at St Andrews, is going to talk about her career journey, her current role as a curator and her curatorial practices at the V&A including major exhibitions (e.g. Last year’s Tartan).
Kirsty Hassard is a curator, and fashion historian. She is currently a curator in the exhibitions department at V&A Dundee, and previously worked in the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion department at V&A South Kensington. She was co-curator on Tartan, V&A Dundee’s first major inhouse exhibition.
She has worked on a range of exhibitions, including Night Fever. Designing Club Culture (2021) and Mary Quant (2020) at V&A Dundee and Balenciaga. Shaping Fashion (2017) at V&A South Kensington. She has published on women and work, and the relationship between fashion and print culture in the eighteenth century.