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ALISON YARRINGTON

Alison Yarrington is Professor Emerita of Art History and Dean of the School of Arts, English, Drama and Publishing at Loughborough University, specializing in the history of British art and sculpture c.1750-1914, including sculpture’s display histories, the Anglo-Italian marble trade and, more broadly, British-Italian cultural transactions and the history of collections and collecting. She was the Principal Investigator for the AHRC and British Academy- funded project Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, with the Institute of Art History, University of Glasgow, the V&A and the Henry Moore Institute. Her publications include studies of public sculpture, notably on monuments to Nelson and Wellington; articles and chapters on women sculptors, country house collections and galleries and on Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges, The Lustrous Trade with Cinzia Sicca, and co-edited Travels and Translations: Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions. She is a member of Art UK’s ‘Your Sculpture’ Steering Panel and chairs the Advisory Board of the Sculpture Journal.

LAURA CASTRO

Laura Castro is an art historian and the current director of the Regional Directorate of Culture of the North (Portugal). She holds a PhD in Art and Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, a Master's in Art History from the New University of Lisbon, and a degree from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Porto. She is also a lecturer at the School of Arts at the Catholic University of Portugal, of which she was director between 2013 and 2017, and a researcher at CITAR - Research Centre in Arts Science and Technology - of the same school. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Portuguese Association of Art Historians (APHA), belonging to the board between 2005 and 2009.