Venetia Porter

Venetia Porter is former Senior Curator for Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art at the British Museum. She studied Arabic and Persian and Islamic Art at the University of Oxford, and her PhD from the University of Durham, is on the history and architecture of Medieval Yemen. Her exhibitions include Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam (2012), and she was the lead curator for the Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World (2018). Her publications include her mother’s autobiography Thea Porter’s scrapbook (Unicorn Press 2019) and most recently, Artists making books: poetry to politics (British Museum Press 2023).