Rachel
Church
After studying medieval and modern history at Cambridge and a Masters in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, Rachel Church spent two years as an assistant language teacher in a Japanese high school. Returning to Britain, she joined the Victoria and Albert Museum as a Curator working in turn in the Textiles and Dress and Metalwork, Documentation, Silver and Jewellery departments.
As a Curator in the Metalwork, Silver and Jewellery department she worked on major gallery redisplays like the British Galleries, European Silver, the Gilbert Galleries and the Sacred Silver and Stained Glass Galleries. She was a member of the core team which carried out the complete redisplay of the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery, housing over 3,000 jewels from the historic to the contemporary.
She writes and lectures regularly about jewellery, to local Arts societies, the Goldsmiths Centre and Company and for V&A courses.
Books, book chapters and catalogue entries
Web publications
Short articles and book reviews
Peer reviewed articles
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