Gill Hedley worked as a museum curator in three regional museums before organising major exhibitions world-wide for the British Council including Francis Bacon in Moscow, 1988, and Richard Hamilton in Venice, 1993. From 1993-2006 she was Director of the Contemporary Art Society, initiating, amongst many other projects, two groundbreaking Lottery-funded Special Collection Schemes to purchase or commission works of contemporary art and craft for 25 UK collections and provide international research and development programmes for curators.
Freelance, she worked as an exhibition curator, museum consultant and advisor to a number of individual artists and to The John Deakin Archive.
Now writing full time her history of church building post-Waterloo, Free Seats for All, was published in 2018 by Umbria Press. Her biography of Arthur Jeffress (1905-1961), art dealer and collector – A Life in Art – was published in April 2020 by Bloomsbury; The Ingenious Mr. Flitcroft, Palladian Architect, Lund Humphries, November 2023, was awarded the Architecture Biography of 2024 by the Worshipful Company of Architecture and WAF. A biography of Lady Norton, founder of the London Gallery, will follow one of these days…
She is a trustee of the Art Monthly Foundation which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2026..