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Joanna Meacock

Brief Biography

Glasgow Museums Staff, Curator, 2012 -

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Curator of British Art

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Dr Jo Meacock joined Glasgow Museums as Curator of British Art in 2012 with a remit including painting, sculpture, prints and drawings. Her specialism lies in 19th-century and early 20th-century British art, with a particular interest in Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, women artists, Scottish art movements and religious iconography.

Jo was awarded a MA and PhD in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, where she also gained a PGCert in Academic Practice. She taught for several years at the university and became a research assistant on projects including The Correspondene of James McNeill Whistler and Exhibition Culture in London 1878–1908. She went to become the Data Editing Manager for the National Inventory Research Project, Research Associate for James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings: A Catalogue Raisonné and Editor for Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951. She became the Glasgow Museums catalogue coordinator for the Public Catalogue Foundation (now ArtUK) and then its Scottish Regional Research Manager. She is currently a Trustee of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust.

Her publications include:
Introducing the Art of Joseph Crawhall, Glasgow Museums, 2021.
‘Exploding Convention: I Say Nothing, A World War I centenary sculpture commission by Christine Borland’, Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, vol. 24, 2019–20, pp. 81–89.
‘Making Connections’, I Say Nothing: A World War I Centenary Commission by Christine Borland, Glasgow Museums, 2018.
‘A lesser known Glasgow Girl: the case of Maggie Hamilton’, British Art Studies, April 2016 (https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/index/article-index/still-invisible/article-category/conversation-piece).
‘Fred A. Farrell: Glasgow’s War Artist Revisited’, Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, vol. 20, 2015–16, pp. 37–45.
‘The Celtic Revival in Scotland: The Glasgow Boys and the Edinburgh Celtic Renascence’, Alphonse Mucha: In Quest of Beauty, ed. Tomoko Sato, Mucha Foundation Publishing, Prague, 2015, pp. 140–49.
Fred A. Farrell: Glasgow’s War Artist, with Fiona Hayes, Alan Greenlees and Mark Roberts, Glasgow Museums, 2014.
'London’s River: Conrad, Whistler and The Metropolitan Magazine', Conrad First, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2012 (http://www.conradfirst.net/conrad/scholarship/authors/meacock.html).
'The General and the Colonel; or Scalping the Hostiles', in Connecting Whistler: Essays in Honour of Margaret F. MacDonald, edited by Erma Hermens, Joanna Meacock & Grischka Petri, University of Glasgow, 2010 (http://www.gla.ac.uk/connectingwhistler).
‘The Science of the Beautiful: Whistler, Degas and the Etching Revival in the 19th Century’, Impressionismus und Japanmode: Edgar Degas – James Whistler, exhibition catalogue, Städtische Galerie Überlingen am Bodensee, July–Sept 2009.
‘Apostles of the New Gospel: Whistler and Rossetti’, James McNeill Whistler in Context, Freer Gallery of Art Occasional Papers, new series, vol. 4, 2008, pp. 31–44.
‘Whistler and Scriptural Persuasion’, British Art Journal, vol. 8, no. 3, winter 2007-8, pp. 24–30.
A Rossetti Family Chronology, with Dr Alison Chapman, Author Chronologies Series, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2007.

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