Eleanor Clayton

Eleanor Clayton is a curator and art historian with a specialist interest in British modernism. She is Head of Collection and Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield, where she has been a curator since 2014. In 2021, she curated a major retrospective at The Hepworth Wakefield, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life, which toured to Tate St Ives, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and Towner Eastbourne. It was accompanied by her monograph of the same title. She was previously an...See more

Eleanor Clayton is a curator and art historian with a specialist interest in British modernism. She is Head of Collection and Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield, where she has been a curator since 2014. In 2021, she curated a major retrospective at The Hepworth Wakefield, Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life, which toured to Tate St Ives, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and Towner Eastbourne. It was accompanied by her monograph of the same title. She was previously an assistant curator at Tate Britain and Tate Liverpool, and has curated exhibitions about Lee Miller, Ronald Moody, Bill Brandt and Henry Moore, among others. See less