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Angus Stewart

Angus Stewart is an independent curator responsible for the major Graham Sutherland exhibition in 2004 that marked the centenary of the artist's birth. He is known for his exhibitions on twentieth-century British artists: Francis Bacon, Edward Burra, Prunella Clough, Augustus John, Gwen John, Wyndham Lewis, Henry Moore, Lucie Rie, and Keith Vaughan; his curatorial subjects include Jane Austen, John Constable, and leading eighteenth-century British cartoonists; and he has exhibited native British art and the English Arts and Crafts movement. He has presented exhibitions on Italian majolica, on British ceramics from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Regency, on Chinese lacquer from Yangzhou, and on Chinese imperial ceramics from the ninth to the eighteenth century. He has also curated exhibitions on Tibetan religious art and on pre-Christian Middle Eastern culture. He has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, The Burlington Magazine, Apollo, Interiors, Country Life, Art Review, and numerous newspapers and periodicals. Published work includes monographs on the artists Anna Pugh, Suad Al-Attar, and Anthony Benjamin. Along with involvement with theatrical and opera productions, film, and radio reportage, he is an active Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Vice President of the UNESCO-sponsored NGO, the International Association of Art Critics.