I am a writer, art historian and independent curator based in London.
I’m the author of Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking a polemic about patriarchy, feminism and art history, published by WW. Norton (US) and Icon Books (UK) in 2021. I’m also the author of The Art of Looking Up which is a collection of forty fine art ceilings from around the world, published by White Lion (2019). In 2019 I was guest curator at Richard Saltoun Gallery in London and curated an acclaimed two part show on contemporary art and motherhood.
My literary agent is Anna Power at Johnson & Alcock
When not writing and curating I can be found teaching art history at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, where I am the course leader for the summer school on Women and Art and have developed courses on art, race and gender. I have a PhD in Art History from UCL where I worked as a Teaching Fellow and I have appeared on BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour, Sky News and BBC Breakfast talking about art.
My writing has been published in The New European, art-agenda, Harper’s Bazaar UK, The Independent, The Architectural Review, and in international academic journals and museum exhibition catalogues.
(Follow me here @womeninthepicture)
Catherine McCormack 
Hello Catherine, I have just finished reading Women in the Picture and expect to come back to it again and again. Thank you. It is wonderful, much needed and perhaps long overdue. Often open to women’s voices I thought I knew quite a bit but, in truth, not much. You have helped fill many gaps and engaged me. Most of all you have helped with not knowing or learning to know afresh in a way that opens up understanding instead of locking it down. Admittedly, my appreciation is also selfish because all efforts to unravel and dismantle patriarchy are likely to improve the lives of ‘old’ ‘white’ ‘men’ like me too. I wish you well in your work because it matters enormously. Thanks, Tom Hulley
Dear Catherine
I just happened to read the Magazin-Article by Nina Kunz about your book and your studies. The effect is that I absolutely have to read your book women in the picture :-). I am a big nerd regarding Renaissance art, and I confess – there is a lot of Tizian, Botticelli, Antonello da Messina etc amongst this stuff I admire that much, …for sure also because of their way painting women ..(so I follow perfectly the patriarchal tradtiions). I read at a moment a book by the mediavelist Carla Frugoni ‘Medieval women. Sunny, indomitable, adventurous’ (original title Donne medievali. Sole, indomite, avventurose – at the moment the book is probably only available in Italien?). The book contains a lot of medieval illustrations from art and her reflections seem to confirm in many aspects your observations. Maybe you are already familiar with her – else it could also be interesting for you.
best wishes and thanks for adding further (feminist) aspects to story of art!
Klaus