I am Curator of The Clockworks, London, and I also write and lecture on eighteenth-century art, the history of collections and the intersection of art and psychiatry. Following a PhD on seduction and juxtaposition in the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau and William Hogarth (Birkbeck, University of London), I was Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ‘Shakespeare in the Royal Collection‘ project at King’s College London. I have taught literature, art history and the history of museums at BA and MA level at Birkbeck and The Courtauld, and have worked in the curatorial departments of Bethlem Museum of the Mind, the Royal Collection Trust, Watts Gallery, and Dr Johnson’s House (where I wrote a history of eighteenth-century cats). Having originally studied English, I still often think about the novels of Samuel Richardson. I live in south-east London, at the intersection of train tracks and cemeteries.
You can contact me via kirsten.tambling@gmail.com.
Kirsten tambling 