Contact | Our Staff
Our Staff
Ann Sumner,
Director
Barber Professor of Fine Art and Curatorial Practice
Ann Sumner read History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and undertook her PhD at Newnham College, Cambridge. She began her career at the National Portrait Gallery, London and has held curatorial positions at the Holburne Museum, University of Bath, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Harewood House Trust and the National Museum of Wales, where she was Head of Fine Art for seven years prior to her appointment as Director of the Barber Institute. Her specialist areas of interest are 17th-century British portraiture and miniature painting, 18th-century British portraiture and landscape painting and French 19th-century painting, as well as the art of Wales. She has published work on the Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones, curating and co-authoring the 2003 bi-centenary catalogue Thomas Jones: An Artist Rediscovered (Yale University Press) as well as researching the Impressionist paintings at Cardiff publishing Colour and Light: 50 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Works in the National Museum of Wales (2004). She is currently researching and writing catalogues for the exhibition Reunited: Gwen John, Mère Poussepin and the Catholic Church exhibition, which opens at the Barber in July 2008, and Sisley in England and Wales (curated jointly with Christopher Riopelle), which opens at the National Gallery, London in November 2008. Professor Sumner is a member of the NICE (National Inventory of Continental European) Paintings Steering Committee at the National Gallery, London, a Trustee of the Methodist Art Collection of Modern Art and a member of the selection panel for the National Photographic Portrait Commission at the National Museum of Wales.
Eurydice Georganteli, MA, PhD, FSA
Curator of Coins
Eurydice Georganteli read Archaeology and History of Art at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Oxford. She has been a Bodossakis and A.G. Leventis scholar at Oxford, post-doctoral fellow at Dumbarton Oaks (Trustees for Harvard University), Washington DC, Robinson scholar at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and fellow of the Clore Leadership programme of April 2008. She has worked at the British Museum and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and taught at the Institute for Balkan Studies and the University of Thessaly, Greece, before becoming the Curator of Coins at the Barber Institute and Lecturer in Numismatics and Economic History at the University of Birmingham in 2000. Her work during the past eight years has focused on the development of the Barber collections through the creation of a new coin gallery, library and study room, of the graduate programme in Numismatics at the University, and four major exhibitions. She contributes to the MBA programme of the University’s Business School, and is a visiting lecturer at Queen’s University, Belfast. Her recent publication Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World (London 2006) was the recipient of the Royal Numismatic Society Lhotka Memorial Prize 2007 and runner-up in the Art Newspaper/AXA Art Exhibition Publication Prize 2007. Eurydice is member of the Royal Numismatic Society, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Greg Smith, PhD
Curator