Director West Yorkshire Print Workshop
Natalie Rudd is Director of West Yorkshire Print Workshop, a dynamic arts organisation supporting artists working in printmaking. She is leading the organisation through an ambitious next chapter.
An art historian, curator and writer specialising in modern and contemporary art, Natalie brings over 25 years of expertise in strategic leadership, public engagement, and inclusive programming. As Senior Curator of the Arts Council Collection (2003–2021), she led the UK’s largest loan collection of British sculpture, managing the centre for sculpture at Longside, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and producing many touring exhibitions and learning programmes. She has also held curatorial positions at Tate Liverpool and the University of Manchester.
With doctorate-level expertise in recent sculpture by women, Natalie develops sector-shaping projects that foreground underrepresented artists and narratives. She is a highly skilled writer and editor with an extensive portfolio of published work, and as an experienced public speaker she regularly delivers lectures and chairs conversations at galleries, museums and universities across the UK. She studied History of Art at King’s College, Cambridge, graduating with a First Class degree, and recently completed a PhD in Art History at the University of Birmingham, funded by Midlands4Cities.