
2025 Association for Art History Fellows
We are delighted to announce our 2025 Association for Art History Fellows. This initiative, now in its sixth year, seeks to recognise and honour individuals who have made a significant contribution to the broad field of art history.
The Association for Art History Fellows for 2025 are Gavin Butt, Althea Greenan, and Craig Clunas:
Gavin Butt is a writer and creative researcher who explores the significance and impact of visual art in the cultural worlds of popular music, queer culture and performance. Trained as an artist and art historian at Goldsmiths and Leeds universities, he is author of No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (2022), Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World (2005) editor of After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance (2005) and co-editor of Post-Punk Then and Now (2016). Alongside scholarly output, he works collaboratively on creative research projects including Mixed Up: Music and the Art School (2025), Performance Matters (2009-2013), This Is Not a Dream (2011) and The Art School Dance Goes On (2023). Formerly Professor of Visual Cultures and Performance at Goldsmiths, he is currently researching histories of UK art education as Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University.
Althea Greenan works in Special Collections and Archives at Goldsmiths, University of London curating the Women’s Art Library collection (WAL). Her work with WAL began in 1989 as a volunteer and she remained with the collection when it was gifted to Goldsmiths in 2004. She subsequently developed a programme of artistic research supporting artists, students and academics. She has written on/for women artists since the 1980s publishing reviews, interviews and creative pieces. Her doctoral research on the WAL slide collection features in articles for Of Other Spaces and Women: a cultural review . Her writings about the WAL include a chapter in Feminism and Museums, volume 1 and “We’re in the Library!: welcoming creative practices, sharing responsibilities of access”. She co-curated the Animating Archives website and contributed as an advisor to Feminist Art Making Histories, (an oral history, digital humanities project) and Women in Revolt. She is currently Senior Fellow at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities of the University Alliance Ruhr.
Craig Clunas is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford, where from 2007 to 2018 he was the first holder of the chair to work on the art of Asia. He began his career as a curator of Chinese art at the V&A Museum, before moving in 1994 to teach at University of Sussex, and at SOAS. He has written extensively on the art of China, particularly the late imperial and modern eras, his books ranging from Chinese Export Watercolours (1984) to The Echo Chamber: Transnational Chinese Painting, 1897-1935, published bilingually in Beijing in 2024. Many of his books have been published in Chinese translation. He co-curated Ming: 50 Years that Made China at the BM in 2014, and his most recent exhibition, Freud and China, was shown at Freud Museum, London in 2022. He has been Slade Professor at Oxford, and in 2012 gave the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery in Washington DC, published as Chinese Painting and Its Audiences in 2017. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
We will confer the awards to our stellar cohort of 2025 Art History Fellows during our Annual Conference, 9-11 April 2025. The awards presentations are open to all conference delegates.
Image credits: photographs supplied by our Fellows; artwork photograph of Althea Greenan: Costumes for Curators #3 Althea Greenan (2013) Amelia Hawk, photography: Julian Hughes.