Gill Saunders

Not to be confused with Gil Saunders.

Gill Saunders (born 1956) is a senior curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, an author, and broadcaster.^[1][2][3]

Early career and education

Gill Saunders was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, and the University of Leicester.^{[citation needed]}

Career since joining the Victoria and Albert Museum

Saunders joined the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in 1979 and became the Senior Curator of Prints in 2006. Her expertise is mainly in 20th century and contemporary prints, drawings and paintings. In 2010 she co-curated Walls Are Talking, an exhibition of wallpapers by contemporary artists, at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and in 2011 Surface Noise, a show of innovative contemporary printmaking at the Jerwood Space in London. In 2012, for the British Council, she curated a loan exhibition of street art prints, which toured in Libya. For the V&A she has devised a number of UK touring exhibitions, including Modern Masters in Print: Matisse, Picasso, Dali and Warhol (2015–17), Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture (2015–16), and Pop Art in Print (2017–18).^[4] She is an Honorary Member of the Printmakers Council^[5] and wrote an essay on Emma Stibbon for the book Territories of Print 1994–2019 which accompanied her retrospective at the Rabbley Drawing Centre Gallery.^[6]

Publications

• Saunders, Gill (August 1989). The Nude: A New Perspective. Cambridge: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-430189-3.
• Saunders, Gill (4 September 1995). Picturing Plants:An Analytical History of Botanical Illustrations. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20306-2.
• Saunders, Gill (1 September 2002). Wallpaper in Interior Decoration. Watson-Guptill. ISBN 0-8230-5622-8.
• Saunders, Gill, ed. (3 October 2011). Recording Britain (1 ed.). V & A Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85177-661-0.