Katharine Eustace

Katharine Eustace FSA, is an independent writer on British and European sculpture from 1500 to the present. She has had a long career in local authority, university and national museums and art galleries, always with a sculptural bias.
The numerous exhibitions she has curated, with benchmark catalogues, include Michael Rysbrack, Sculptor 1694–1770 (Bristol, 1982), Let’s Not Be Stupid – Richard Deacon (University of Warwick, 1992), and Canova: Ideal Heads (Ashmolean, 1995). From 2004 to 2014 she was editor of the Sculpture Journal. She is joint editor Sculpting Art History, Essays in Memory of Benedict Read (Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, 2018).
Eustace has been a member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee and Arts Council England’s Acceptance-in-lieu Panel. She works with many public bodies, among them ArtUK’s sculpture programme and Art Detective. She writes widely on sculpture and its contexts in her book Britannia: Icon on the Coin (Royal Mint, 2016), essays on Lawrence Bradshaw's Karl Marx Memorial for the Henry Moore Institute/Whitechapel Art Gallery (2016), and reviews and articles in the Art Newspaper and the Burlington Magazine.