Ailsa McTernan

Ailsa is an MPhil Art History student at the University of Cambridge, where she focuses on the intersections between music and the visual arts in Modernist Germany. She graduated with Double- Starred First Class Honours in Art History at the same institution in 2024, and received a number of academic awards, including the Winifred Georgina Holgate Pollard Memorial Prize for outstanding Tripos results, the Kilby Prize for best undergraduate performance, and the Lander Prize for History of Art.
As an alumna of the Royal Academy of Music in London, she has worked as a Student Programmer for the Music Committee at Kettle’s Yard House and Gallery, and performed a recital of early opera at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
During her curatorial internship at Althorp House, she contributed to the conservation and cataloguing of historic furniture and textiles, and conducted research on musical portraiture within the collection.
Ailsa currently works as a Teaching Assistant and EPQ Mentor at Art History Link-Up alongside her studies.