Our Trustees

The Trustees of the Lund Humphries Foundation for Visual Arts, registered charity 1211237:

Imogen Abed has worked in academic and professional publishing, as Sales and Marketing Director at Jessica Kingsley Publishers, and at Ashgate Publishing, and has been an executive director at Lund Humphries. She has a degree in English and American Literature, and a masters in Creative Writing, and has worked as a freelance script reader. 

Dr Catherine Manning read History at St Hugh’s College, Oxford and subsequently completed a doctorate at King’s College London in 18th-century economic history.  Her career has included time teaching both in the UK and in India and she has also published five novels writing as Elizabeth Ironside. She is married to David, a former diplomat, whom she accompanied on postings to Warsaw, New Delhi, Paris, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Brussels and the United States. She is a Trustee of the American Museum & Gardens, Bath. 

Lucy Myers is Managing Director of Lund Humphries, an imprint which she has led for over 20 years, overseeing its expansion into new subject-areas and publishing formats, developing partnerships with art and educational institutions, and building a new programme of publishing on the art market, museums and curating. She has a background in Modern Languages with a Degree in French and German from Trinity College, Cambridge. She is also a classically trained singer and pianist with a Diploma in Music Performance, is a former Trustee and current singing member of Londinium chamber choir, and co-directs as a volunteer the community singing group The Hackney Songbirds.

Professor Alan Short is an architect and the 9th President of Clare Hall, Cambridge, the graduate-research college. He was appointed the 5th Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge in 2001, succeeding Sir Leslie Martin and Sir Colin St John Wilson. At Cambridge, he leads a highly interdisciplinary group working on how to deliver very low-carbon buildings and cities, and as an architect of important sustainable buildings he has won the Green Building of the Year Prize, the RIBA President's Research Award and numerous other prizes. In China he is a Distinguished Professor of the People’s Republic, co-directing the national research centre in green buildings, and is a Guest Professor at Zhejiang University. He sits on the Cambridge University Council and the General Board and will be Chair of the Colleges’ Committee for 2026-8.

Alice Strang is an independent art historian and curator. She is also an Associate Director at Lyon & Turnbull fine art auctioneers, where she is a Senior Specialist in Modern & Contemporary Art. She was previously a Senior Curator at the National Galleries of Scotland. She lectures and writes widely across Modern British and Modern Scottish art. She is a Saltire Society Outstanding Woman of Scotland and a BBC Expert Woman. She is also a Lund Humphries author, having contributed an essay to the 2024 title Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: The Glaciers, edited by Rob Airey.