Deanna Petherbridge
Professor emeritus Deanna Petherbridge CBE is an artist, writer and curator. Her practice is drawing-centred and she celebrated a retrospective at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 2016–17. Her triptych The Destruction of the City of Homs, 2016 was on display at Tate Britain 2019–2020 and recent drawings deal with war and forced migration, environmental destruction and the Covid pandemic. She has held three professorships in drawing including the Royal College of Art and is the author of The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice (2010) as well as numerous publications on art and architecture including Drawing as Metaphor for Drawing Matter. Curated exhibitions include The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy, Hayward Touring, 1997; Witches and Wicked Bodies, National Galleries of Scotland & British Museum 2013-15; Artists at Work, Courtauld Gallery, 2018. She was an International Scholar, Getty Research Institute, 2001-2 and is presently Associate Fellow, Warburg Institute, University of London. https://deannapetherbridge.com