PhD. Curator @morleycollege. Former @beyondthespec & @britishmuseum staff. Curator & historian. Tweets represent personal opinions.
Joined June 2016
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2 Dec 2024
I’ve left twitter. Not moved anywhere. Will still answer DMs from people I know, but this place is over for me.
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Jack Davy retweeted
22 Feb 2024
🎨 Maggi Hambling: Teacher – a landmark exhibition coming soon to #MorleyGallery – will celebrate 55 years of Maggi’s teaching at #MorleyCollegeLondon.
🎟️ FREE to attend 6 – 26 March 2024 at @MorleyGallery
💻 Read more - ow.ly/sJVW50QGKUW
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Jack Davy retweeted
28 Dec 2023
Making an abstract art exhibit where if a guest says “I could paint that,” a fresh canvas and paints are lowered from the ceiling and a booming prerecorded voice says “DO IT THEN, SHIT HEAD”
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11 Dec 2023
I just got “spinal tapped” at work today for the first time.
A gallery installation commissioned in cm turned up in mm instead, and we were all standing around in tiny town wondering what the hell happened.
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12 Jul 2023
Ladies and Gentlemen, my prodigiously talented wife! So proud.
12 Jul 2023
Today has been an absolute privilege. If you could have told me as a girl reading battered copies of Silas Marner that one day, she would use George Eliot’s pen to sign her name on the scroll of Honorary Fellows @RSLiterature she would have exploded. 🖊️ ❤️❤️
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24 Apr 2023
Come and work with me?
If you’ve ever thought “hey, Jack seems like a cool guy, what would it be like to curate exhibitions with him?” Now is your chance.
Full-time, permanent Gallery Officer job advert at Morley College London
morleycollege.ac.uk/vacancy/…
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17 Apr 2023
I’ve just submitted a chapter for a book, and realised with a start that it’s the first time since August 2013 I don’t have any active writing deadlines. It’s a bit giddying not having one hanging over me.
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Jack Davy retweeted
27 Mar 2023
'You could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this book. Essential' Sathnam Sanghera
Dr Jack Davy's illuminating and important A Short History of Power is available for request on NetGalley now: netgal.ly/EYRCug
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Jack Davy retweeted
10 Mar 2023
Empowering Art review – Indigenous masterworks full of wonder and sorrow theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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20 Jan 2023
Rethinking repatriation: a follow up 🧵
Lots of engagement with this thread from the other day which made me think people might like me to dive a little deeper into what I think repatriation means /1
18 Jan 2023
Understanding stolen objects: a 🧵
Talking with someone yesterday I realised how few people really understand the repatriation debate in UK museums and the sheer scale of the problem. So I’m going to try and lay it out. 1/
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20 Jan 2023
These attitudes must be countered in the strongest possible terms, with evidence and argument, action and policy, if we are to prevent years of inaction, disappointment and harm to come. /16
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20 Jan 2023
Articulating clearly and publicly the ways in which *our* institutions can hurt people is just the start of that campaign. 17/17
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