Andrea is the Director of Visual Arts at the British Council, since 1995. She is a Trustee of the White chapel Art Gallery, UK representative at UNESCO Cultural Commission; British Commissioner for the International Venice Biennale of Art and Architecture; Chair of the Assessment Panel, Prince’s Drawing School; Trustee of the Advisory Board, Calcutta Museum of Contemporary Art; Advisor to the National Gallery’s Art-in-Residence programme.
Former posts include: Trustee of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle-Gateshead; Member of the Fine Art Faculty, British School at Rome; Advisor, Imperial War Museum; Member of the National Trust’s Contemporary Art Foundation; Member RIBA’s International Architecture Board; Member of the Court of the Royal College of Art; Art Advisor to Channel 4 TV Big Art; Member, Fine Art Panel, Arts Council of England; Member, Crafts Council.
She was Curator of the British Council Collection from 1991-1995, where she was responsible for key purchases of contemporary art, by artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst, Peter Doig, Anya Gallacio Steve McQueen, Douglas Gordon. From 1974-1976 Teaching Associate, University of Minnesota, History of Art Department and from 1976-1980 was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at Birmingham City Art Gallery and recently she was on the panel to select the winner of the Northern Art Prize in London.
Her publications include The Art and Mind of Victorian England, 1974, Catalogue raisonne of Rossetti Drawings in Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1976, Pre-Raphaelites, 1976, Pre-Raphaelite Portraits, 1978, The Germ: The Pre-Raphaelite Magazine, 1979, Stanley Spencer (co- curator with Jim Demetrion), De-Composition- new photography from Britain 1990, Leon Kossoff, Venice Biennale, 1995, Rachel Whiteread, Venice Biennale 1997, Lost and Found: Critical Voices in new British Design, Birkhauser 2000, Francis Bacon: Portraits, Hatje Cantze, Germany 2005, Tracey Emin : Borrowed Light, Venice Biennale 2007
She was awarded an OBE for service to British Art in 1998, then became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2001 and in 2007 was named by Tatler as one of the UK’s top 20 women of ‘Soft Power’.
