Greg Sullivan FSA
Honorary Visiting Fellow
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BA (Leeds), MA (Warwick), PhD (Leeds)
Dr Greg Sullivan FSA is an art historian and curator specializing in British sculpture from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. He is the Research Associate on the AHRC-Funded project Pantheons: Sculpture at St Paul’s Cathedral, working with Professor Jason Edwards, Dr Amy Harris and Simon Carter, Head of Collections at St Paul’s Cathedral. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of History of Art until 2024.
Previously he spent six years as Curator of British Art, 1750-1830 at Tate Britain, and three years as Sculpture Curator and Chantrey Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Between 2000 and 2006, when a Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, he co-wrote the Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, which he still edits in its online form. He has held two Research Fellowships in sculpture at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and in 2017 a Paul Mellon Centre Mid-Career Fellowship on the work of the sculptor Francis Chantrey. He has also taught at the Universities of Loughborough and Leeds.
As a curator he was responsible for the permanent display of Francis Chantrey’s plaster models at the Ashmolean Museum, 2009, and at Tate Britain was the organizing curator on Sculpture Victorious 2015, lead curator for Fighting History: 250 Years of British History Painting, curator of numerous smaller displays.
He sits on the Steering Committee for Art UK’s project to digitize British sculpture collections, the Scientific Committee for the Prehistories of the Installation project at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, and previously sat on the Sculpture and Furnishings Committee, and the Cathedral Inventories Committee, of the Church of England. He co-supervised (with Jason Edwards) Amy Harris’s collaborative PhD on the Chantrey Bequest.
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