Dr Sally-Anne Huxtable
Honary Visiting Fellow
Profile
Sally-Anne Huxtable has been Head Curator of the National Trust since July 2019. She was formerly Principal Curator of Modern and Contemporary Design and National Museums Scotland where she curated the permanent gallery Design for Living, 1851-1951 which opened in July 2016. Sally was previously a Lecturer in Art & Design at Northumbria University and as Research Associate at Dallas Museum of Art where she worked on the exhibition and catalogue Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement. She has also undertaken work for a number of museums and galleries including Tate and the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, and is a former editor of the Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society and Trustee of the Design History Society.
Sally’s historical and art historical expertise focuses on nineteenth and early twentieth century century art, design and history, and she has a particular interest in artistic movements and in the relationship between artistic movements and practice and spiritual and religious belief. She also researches and writes on the history and reception of the country house in Britain.
