Ananda Rutherford

Ananda Rutherford is an experienced researcher and museum collections manager. Her research and professional practice focus is on ethical and equitable collections information, the history and role of collections documentation and the digitisation of collections. Her recent work addresses structural racism in cataloguing, the potential applications for machine learning with object information, and ethics in practice at the intersection of research, collections and technological innovation.

Ananda has worked in collections and documentation roles in a number of museums including the Museum of the Home, Crafts Council, Sir John Soane’s Museum and the V&A. More recently, she was research associate on the AHRC/Towards a National Collection Foundation Project Provisional Semantics at Tate. She is currently a research fellow on the Transforming
Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage project and based at University of Arts London, with the Decolonising Arts Institute.