About

Sarah Wade (left) and Pandora Syperek (right).

Pandora Syperek is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Loughborough University London and Visiting Fellow at the V&A Research Institute. She researches intersections of art, science, gender and the nonhuman within cultures of display. She is co-lead on Loughborough’s Institute of Advanced Studies’ 2023-24 annual theme ‘Gestation: Bodies, Technologies, Ecologies, Justice’ and has published book chapters and journal articles on gender and ecological aesthetics in natural history display as well as texts on contemporary art. Pandora was a postdoctoral fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre from 2016-2017, and holds a PhD in the History of Art from University College London, funded by SSHRC. She has taught on modern and contemporary art, design and curatorial studies at Loughborough University, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, UCL and York University, and previously worked on the curatorial team at the Banff Centre, Canada.

Sarah Wade is an art historian and Associate Professor in Museum Studies at University of East Anglia. Her research focuses on human-animal relations and representations of wildlife in contemporary art, exhibitions and museum display, particularly with regards to ecological concerns. Sarah holds a PhD in History of Art from University College London and has published widely on extinction and wildlife conservation issues in artistic and curatorial practice. She has also curated exhibitions on the subject. Over the years, Sarah has worked with various museums and heritage organisations in research, project management and curatorial capacities and continues to collaborate with museum colleagues on research projects and exhibitions.