Dr Katie Jane Tyreman Herrington is a researcher and curator with particular expertise in nineteenth- to twentieth-century British and European art. Herrington further specialises in the work of women artists and has led the Tate British Art Specialist Research Group British Women Artists 1750–1950 for the Department of History of Art, University of York since 2015.
Through her business, Kate makes a home, she assists private collectors with the cataloguing and organisation of their special collections. In 2018–2019 she held the post of Curator of the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds and before that she worked freelance for Manchester Art Gallery on the exhibition, and book of the same name, 'Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope' (Manchester Art Gallery, 2018).
In 2024 she completed work as editor of the book Victorian Artists and their World: as reflected in the papers of Joanna and George Boyce and Henry Wells (Boydell & Brewer, 2024) that addresses the multifaceted artistic work, practices and social circles of academic, Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic artists in the mid- to later nineteenth-century British art world. She is currently teaching art history courses for the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of York.
