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Dr Virginia Button

Head of the Department of Art

Trained as an art historian, first at Leeds University (BA 1982) then at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (MA 1984, PhD 1991), Virginia worked as a Tate curator in London from 1991 to 2001 before moving to Cornwall.

A specialist in modern British and international contemporary art, at Tate she curated the permanent collection, Art Now projects, and major exhibitions including the Turner Prize (1993-98). In 2000 she co-curated with Charles Esche Intelligence, the first Tate Triennial of contemporary British art. From 1998-2001 she was a Senior Curator at Tate Britain, and co-ordinator of its collection displays.

She has written numerous exhibition catalogues on contemporary art including social systems (ProjectBase, 2007), and published books on Christopher Wood and Ben Nicholson (Tate Publishing, 2003, 2007). Her history of The Turner Prize first published in 1997 is now in its fifth revised edition.

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