My work is evolving as I move away from permanent, organisation-based roles towards freelance and project work that ties into my interests of research on display; organisational memory; artefacts as intermediaries; material culture; museums of professions; police collections and the interplay between artefacts and documents. Because I have learned to live with dyslexia and dyspraxia and childhood head injuries I am an excellent lateral thinker and imaginative problem solver – reflected in my highly visual style and emphasis on images and mapping.
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Full-time work, contracts and placements:
I have worked for The National Galleries of Scotland (1992 to 1996); Art in Partnership, Edinburgh (1996 to 1997); Heriot-Watt University Archives (1997 to 1998); The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich (2001 to 2002) and lastly as Curator for the Historic Collections of Devon & Cornwall Police (2004 to 2015). As a student I worked for The Royal Collections at Buckingham Palace; as a front-of-house assistant at The British Museum; as a tape transcriber for The Metropolitan Police and undertook student placements at The Horniman Museum and Gardens, South London (2000) and The South London Gallery (1998). During 2003 I also trained and worked as a researcher for Devon & Cornwall Police.
Funded projects and consultancy work:
Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne
2002 to 2003
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Devon & Cornwall Police: Driving Heritage
2006 to 2008
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click on the PDF document to read a Museums Journal article
The Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
2013
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click on the PDF document to read the UK Medical Collections Group report
The Open University, History Department, Milton Keynes
2014
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Devon & Cornwall Police: Policing Past Community Present
2014 to 2015
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The Crime and Punishment Collections Network (CaP)
2016 to 2017
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All images and documents on this site are copyright to Angela Sutton-Vane, unless otherwise stated. Please contact me if you would like to use any material – generally I will be more than happy to grant permission for educational or research purposes.
