Dr Althea Greenan works in Special Collections and Archives, Goldsmiths University of London curating the Women’s Art Library (WAL). She began her work with the collection in 1989 as a volunteer with the Women Artists Slide Library, the artists’ organisation that became WAL in 1993. She facilitates new projects and original research with artists, students and academics exploring the WAL and positioning the collection in contemporary practices. Greenan’s writing on the WAL’s collection and activities features in Of Other Spaces (2019), a special issue of the journal Women: A Cultural Review (2019) a chapter in Feminism and Museums, volume 1 (edited by Dr Jenna C Ashton, MuseumsETC 2017) and “We’re in the Library!: welcoming creative practices, sharing responsibilities of access” (Art Libraries Journal July 2024). She co-curated the Animating Archives project, was Senior Fellow at the University Alliance Ruhr (2024/2025) and a 2025 Association for Art History Fellow. 

Photo: Althea Greenan by Ceren Özpinar.