Kim Sloan
Curator of British Drawings and Watercolours before 1880; Francis Finlay Curator of the Enlightenment Gallery
The British Library
About:
Kim Sloan, BA (Toronto), PhD (London) curated an exhibition on Alexander Cozens for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1986, which travelled to the Art Gallery of Ontario with additional works by his son (The Poetry of Landscape: Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Yale, 1986). She worked for four years on the preparation of Sir Brinsley Ford's Grand Tour Archive (www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk) for publication by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (completed by John Ingamells, 1997) before joining the British Museum as curator of British Drawings and Watercolours in 1992.
Her exhibitions at the British Museum have focused on Sir William Hamilton and his collections, on the department's magnificent collection of watercolours by Turner in the Lloyd Bequest and on works by amateurs and drawing masters, which developed ideas from her thesis. She was seconded to be Principal Curator in the creation of the Enlightenment Gallery from 2000 to 2003 and then returned to duties in the Prints and Drawings Department.
