Compton Verney announces six new guest curators for its Women`s Library project
(Artdaily.org)

Following its successful pilot in 2017, this summer Warwickshire’s Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park is again welcoming six guest curators who have nominated books for its reimagined Women’s Library. Unsilencing the Library is, in part, a detective story, an installation, and a celebration of what reading can do and what women have achieved. Succeeding last year’s guest curatorial team - which included actor and UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and cultural critic Margo Jefferson and pupils from the nearby Kineton High School – are Dr Ozak Esu, IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year (based at Cundells in Birmingham), Oxford-based celebrity chef and food activist Sophie Grigson, Professor Fiona Sampson, author of the highly-acclaimed In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl