Ballot Archive

29 Oct 2020

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Rosalind Polly Blakesley

Academic degrees, honours etc.

DPhil, University of Oxford

Profession or occupation

University Professor

Grounds for election

B is Professor of Russian & European Art at Cambs, Fellow of Pembroke College, and co-founder of The Cambs Courtauld Russian Art Centre. She holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for her current project, 'Russia, Empire and the Baltic Imagination'. A Syndic of The Fitzwilliam Museum and former Trustee of the NPG, has served on the boards of Kettle’s Yard and the Hamilton Kerr Institute, and curated exhibitions in London, Moscow and Washington DC, including 'Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky' (NPG, 2016). Her latest book, 'The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia 1757-1881', was awarded the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, the Art Newspaper Russia Best Book Award, and Honorable Mention from the Heldt Prize Committee for Best Book by a Woman in Slavic Studies. In 2017 PB was awarded the Pushkin Medal by the Russian Federation for services to Anglo-Russian relations and Russian art.

Signatories

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