Jonathan Benington has been Manager of Bath’s Victoria Art Gallery since 1996. After completing an MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, he embarked on a career in museums that took him to Leeds, Glasgow and Cheltenham. Specialising in the modernist movement, he has added many works to the Victoria Art Gallery’s permanent collection by 20th-century artists, including Paul Klee, Walter Sickert, William Scott, Howard Hodgkin and Grayson Perry, as well as devoting exhibitions to luminaries from the Bath Academy of Art such as Kenneth Armitage and Peter Lanyon.