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Claire Jones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham. She joined in 2015 and holds roles including Director of Postgraduate Studies and Convenor of MA Art History and Curating. Her research focuses on 19th-century French and British sculpture, emphasizing intersections between sculpture and decorative arts, art-industry relationships, and exhibition histories.
She earned a PhD in Art History from the University of York (2010), an MA from the Royal College of Art, and a BA from the University of Essex. Her postdoctoral work included AHRC-funded projects on dance and memory, and Victorian sculpture displays.
Her research explores how sculpture interacts with decorative arts, challenging traditional hierarchies in art history. Key publications include her monograph *Sculptors and Design Reform in France, 1848 to 1895* (2014) and co-edited volumes on *Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe* (2020). She also investigates exhibition contexts, co-editing special issues on craft exhibitions in *The Journal of Modern Craft* (2022-2023).
In teaching, she convenes MA modules on curatorial practices and exhibition theory. Her current project, *Experiments in Nineteenth-Century British Sculpture*, examines innovations in collaboration, church sculpture, and portraiture. She actively supervises PhD research in sculpture history, decorative arts, and museum studies.
