Advisory Board
Sir Paul Ruddock FSA (Chair).
Victoria and Albert Museum, Chair 2007-15, Trustee 2002-2015, Honorary Senior Research Fellow; British Museum, Trustee 2016-2024, Honorary Senior Research Fellow; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Trustee 2011 -, Co-Chair International Council, Chair of the visiting Committee of Medieval Art and the Cloisters; Oxford University Endowment Management, Chair 2014 -2025.
Dr Marco Aimone FSA, Independent Academic and Senior Advisory Curator of Byzantine and Sasanian Objects, the Wyvern Collection UK. Societe Nationale des Antiquaires de France Foreign Fellow, Italian Society of Byzantine Studies Fellow and former Dumbarton Oaks Fellow.
Dr Barbara Drake Boehm, Curator Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, formerly Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator for the Met Cloisters.
Professor Alixe Bovey FSA FRHistS, Professor of Medieval Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and Editor-in-Chief of British Art Studies.
Kevin Conru, Curator, Researcher and Writer specialising in African and Oceanic Art.
Professor Susie Nash, Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Professor Stephen Perkinson, Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College, USA, and President of the International Center of Medieval Art.
Lady Jill Shaw Ruddock CBE, Author and Philanthropist.
Dr Paul Williamson OBE FSA FRHistS, Keeper Emeritus and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Director
Dr Susannah Kingwill.
Susannah’s research focuses on the objects present at the courts of France during the reigns of the Valois kings Charles V and VI, with a secondary interest in panel paintings produced in the Burgundian Netherlands in the late 14th and early 15th century. Her PhD thesis examined the numerous metalwork crosses owned by Charles V and his brothers, the Dukes of Anjou, Berry, and Burgundy. Between 2021 and 2024 Susannah was an Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She has been working with the Wyvern Collection since April 2021 and was appointed the inaugural Director of the Institute in June 2024. Her research has been published in the Burlington Magazine.
Team
Flora Clark, Collection Assistant
Flora is a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she researches Limoges painted enamelling at the turn of the sixteenth century. Prior to joining the Wyvern Institute, Flora held positions as Research Assistant at the V&A, Project Curator at the British Museum, and Visiting Researcher at The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels. Her research has been published in the British Museum’s catalogue of Netherlandish Drawings (2026).
Chloë Sisson, Executive Assistant
Chloë supports the day-to-day running of the Institute, working with Sir Paul Ruddock and Dr Susannah Kingwill on correspondence, scheduling, and administration. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London.