Description: A beautifully illustrated catalogue to a major exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, exploring enslavement, rebellion, revolution and Abolitionism through art, 1750-1850.
Brief description: Victoria Avery has been Keeper of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, since 2010 prior to which she was Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Warwick. Vicky has lectured and published widely on all aspects of the decorative arts and sculpture, most recently Michelangelo: Sculptor in Bronze (2018); and is leading a new digital research project, Representations of Black People in European Sculpture, 1450-1950. Vicky has curated numerous interdisciplinary exhibitions, including Treasured Possessions (2015); Madonnas & Miracles (2017); and Feast & Fast (2019-2020), from which she is co-editing a multi-author volume, The pineapple from domestication to commodification: Re-presenting a global fruit, for the Proceedings of the British Academy (2024).