Introducing Myself

Hello and welcome to my blog. I am a museum professional, writer and editor based in South Yorkshire.

I work as a Clerk at Barnsley Museums, we run five museum sites, Experience Barnsley Museum, The Cooper Gallery, Cannon Hall Museum, Elsecar Heritage Centre, and Worsbrough Mill. My role within the collections team includes a number of different tasks from hosting monthly acquisition panels, accessioning objects, digitalising our collection to writing blogs and providing admin support for the team. I can honestly say it’s my dream job.

As a writer I have contributed articles to publications including The Dalesman, Memories of Barnsley, Yorkshire Life and the Readers Digest. In recent months I have been writing fiction, something I wish to explore further.

My education includes a degree in Art History and an MA in Museum Studies. I am currently working towards my AMA with the Museums Association. As a volunteer I currently sit on the board of trustees for the Social History Curators Group and edit their bi-annual magazine.

Thank you for viewing my page, I plan to use this space to research and write about art and artists.

With love

Tracey x

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Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the first female artists that I studied at Barnsley art college. I fell in love with her colourful paintings of flowers. Twenty plus years later it is a real joy to see her work in my hometown of Barnsley. The current exhibition at Barnsley Civic is called Memories of Drawings. This exhibition features 21 photogravures of drawings created by O’Keeffe between 1915-1963. It’s a small collection but the intricate simplicity of these works tell a story through delicate shading. It is worth a visit to the gallery to view them.

The Veiled Lady

I love sculpture and one of my favourites is the ‘Veiled Lady’ in the Cooper Gallery collection. I have spent many hours in her company, sometimes alone, sometimes alongside visitors. I am fascinated by this beautiful piece of art.

Fake or Fortune?

Back in December 2020 I was lucky enough to work on an episode of the BBC One programme ‘Fake or Fortune?’. Philip Mould and a television crew came to the Cooper Gallery to look at some sketches purchased by Samuel Joshua Cooper. They also visited Barnsley archives in the Town Hall to view Mr Cooper’s notebook, all as part of an investigation into a work by the French artist Jean Leon Gerome.

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