I am a former film and art school postgraduate who, in 2010, found a home at the Khalili Collections. After two years of cataloguing, I took over all non-Islamic collections, six in total, with a special interest in Japanese Meiji art. The collections included Spanish Damascene Metalwork, the Japanese and Kimono collections, Enamels of the World, Aramaic Documents and Swedish Textiles.

 

My work encompassed all aspects of the collections, from registrar work to research, conservation, publications and exhibitions. As part of this role I had overseen many of the exhibitions and publications drawn from the collections, such as Metal Magic: Spanish Treasures from the Khalili Collection, Auberge de Provence, Valetta, Malta (2012); Beyond Imagination, Treasures of Imperial Japan from the Khalili Collection, 19th to Early 20th Century, Moscow Kremlin Museums, Russia (2017); Splendeurs of Imperial Japan, Musée National des Arts Asiatiques, Guimet, Paris, France (2019); and Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2020–5).

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Some of the publications I have worked on and contributed to include exhibition catalogues and academic publications such as: Kimono: The Art and Evolution of Japanese Fashion, ed. Anna Jackson (Thames and Hudson, 2015), Kimono: Images of Culture: 1915–1950 in the Khalili Collections, ed. Jacqueline M. Atkins (Prestel, 2024); Millionaire Shopping: The collections of Alfred Morrison, 1821-1897 (UCL, 2025) and the forthcoming Visions in Silk: The Khalili Collection of Japanese Fine Art Textiles, ed. Clare Pollard (Kulturalis, 2026).

 

After parting ways with the Khalili Collections in May 2026 and while remaining as advisor I am now open to independent curation, writing, consultancy and registrar work while undertaking a PhD focusing on Japanese Meiji period art.