Emily Tarry is a Project Curator for the EMKP with specific responsibilities for the operational and logistical elements of the programme. She assists with the day-to-day operations, including digital audit, supporting successful grantees, budget records, events, and disseminating the programme through public digital platforms.
Emily began her career studying the artistic culture and social history of eighteenth-century France, with an eye to how the arts enabled marginalised communities to access political power. She has completed two major theses: the first on the response to the Marquis de Sade within the militaristic society of the Napoleonic Empire; and the second on how elite French women across the 1700s used art to mould their sexual reputations, and thus their political influence. She is particularly interested in public history, and the responsibility of heritage institutions to explore underrepresented voices within their programmes.
Emily joins the British Museum from the National Portrait Gallery, where she has worked in a range of roles, from Visitor Experience to Digital Production. Her most recent position was as a member of the National Partnerships team, where she was involved with the NPG’s Journeys with Mai and Lives in Motion projects, working alongside national partners such as the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, and international stakeholders from the Musée de Tahiti et des Îles.
Emily Tarry