Overview
With fifteen years of experience in illustrated book publishing, I hold a successful track record of project management, copy-editing, proofreading and picture research on numerous high-profile and complex publications.
Given my in-house publishing experience, I am aware of the need for reliable, consistent editorial work. I aim to provide clients with professional, polished texts to deadline and to brief.
I am a meticulous editor with excellent organisational skills and a thorough knowledge of the English language. I relish having a varied portfolio, but particular interests include art, architecture, design, film, photography, history, non-fiction and fiction.
• An excellent eye for detail
• Proficient in the use of BSI proof-correction marks and rules of both the Chicago Manual of Style and the New Oxford Style Manual.
• Able to provide mark-up digitally (Microsoft Word track changes, styles; Adobe commenting) or on hard copy, and can adapt quickly to house style.
• Bilingual (English/French), also offering translation services
• MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
• Hands-on experience of negotiating with picture sources to obtain the best quality for reproduction
• I have the latest version of InDesign to take in corrections directly in files
Services
Non-Fiction
Languages
Work experience
The National Gallery Company
I project-managed the development and production of high-quality exhibition catalogues, liaising with all relevant departments to achieve successful delivery, on time and under budget. Selected titles include:
• National Gallery Technical Bulletin
• Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance
• Young Bomberg and the Old Masters
• Titian: Love, Desire, Death
Phaidon Press
I worked on a wide range of illustrated publications on art, architecture, design, gardens, poetry, music and film, such as thematic surveys, catalogues raisonnés and monographs. This included:
• copy-editing, proofreading, checking proofs
• generating working schedules
• creating and managing budgets
• commissioning authors and freelancers
• ensuring texts are edited in accordance with the house/project style guides and that they are of a high standard for publication
• preparing related sales materials, writing promotional copy, blurbs and title information, working closely with marketing and online teams to align messaging of publications
• on the majority of titles, I also managed picture research and fee/rights negotiations, ensuring that relevant permissions were cleared and that all materials were of highly publishable quality
Selected Phaidon titles:
• The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volumes 4 and 5
• Olafur Eliasson: Experience
• Going Once: 250 Years of Culture, Taste and Collecting at Christie's
• The Art of the Erotic
• Phaidon Focus series: Francis Bacon, Anselm Kiefer, Brice Marden, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Andy Warhol
• The Music of Painting
• Modern Art in America, 1908–68
• Robert Ryman
• Frans Hals
• Bruce Nauman: The True Artist
• A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning
• Celtic Art
• The Contemporary Garden
• The Modernist House
• A Smile in the Mind: Witty Thinking in Graphic Design, revised and expanded edition
• Playing the Human Game: Collected Poems of Alfred Brendel
• Arnold Schoenberg (20th-Century Composers Series)
• Poem of the Pillow and other stories by Utamaro, Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and other artists of the Floating World
• 30,000 Years of Art, revised and expanded edition
• Art and Queer Culture
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