With fifteen years’ experience in museums, I now work with teams all over the country on interpretation projects and text-writing. I joined the Science Museum while finishing off my masters (I was also a jobbing musician in the V&A’s café at the time, but that’s another story). Although I started as an Explainer in the interactive galleries, I soon got involved in exhibitions about everything from mobile-phone recycling to Charles Babbage’s difference engines. In a review of a gallery in which I led the interpretation, Museums Journal wrote:

“The exhibition succeeds brilliantly in its use of text, pitched beautifully in terms of quantity and content.”

As well as contributing to the museums press, my recent freelance projects include

• Writing the text for 1001 Inventions, an interactive exhibition about the influence of Muslim civilisation on modern life. The Observer review says: ‘wonderful… filled with surprises. It is easy on the eye but is still dense with information’.

• Leading the interpretation for a major new gallery at the Black Country Museum
• Providing editorial consultancy and editing for the Science Museum’s new Future Foods exhibition.
• Editing text for the revamped contemporary galleries at London Transport Museum
• Writing complete storyline text for the highly-commended new Southwold Museum, Suffolk
• Providing creative consultancy and writing under-sevens’ label text for the new Launchpad gallery at the Science Museum
• Writing interpretive on-screen text for Belfast Exposed photography gallery
• Rewriting label text for the flagship gallery Making the Modern World at the Science Museum
• Acting as interpretation consultant to Objectives Museum Design for projects including Woburn Heritage Centre and St John’s House Museum, Warwick.
• Researching factual content on which Jon Burgerman based his artwork for the Game On exhibition in London

I am a member of the Museums Association and the Group for Education in Museums.