Courtauld Special Exhibitions

Following the success of the Courtauld’s Permanent Galleries tour, I’ve continued collaborating with their team to create ultra-high-resolution virtual tours of their special exhibitions. These temporary shows, hosted in the Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries, offer a rare opportunity to experience curated works brought together from across the globe. Once they conclude, they cannot be experienced again in person in the same way.

These virtual tours are designed to preserve the spatial narrative and curatorial atmosphere of each exhibition, creating a long-term digital record that is both immersive and accessible to global audiences.

Explore the Tours below:

Since early 2022, I’ve captured tours for the following exhibitions:

• Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection (Feb – May 2025)
• Monet and London: Views of the Thames (Sept 2024 – Jan 2025)
• Claudette Johnson: Presence (Sept 2023 – Jan 2024)
• Frank Auerbach: Charcoal Heads (Feb – May 2024)
• Peter Doig (Feb – May 2023)
• Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen (May – Sept 2022)
• Van Gogh: Self-Portraits (Feb – May 2022)

Each tour typically consists of three to four meticulously captured panoramas that showcase the layout, lighting, and interpretive context of the exhibition at a moment in time.

All these tours are hosted on The Courtauld’s official website, helping to make their exhibitions more accessible to audiences worldwide.

While smaller in scale compared to the Permanent Galleries tour, these special exhibition tours retain the same ultra-high-resolution capture and production standards.

• Captured with a robotic pano head, scripted for consistent sequencing and focus control
• Each panorama comprises dozens of overlapping images stitched to a gigapixel scale
• Branded interface tailored to the Courtauld’s design guidelines
• Hotspot text and object labels dynamically loaded via WordPress REST API

Due to the limited access windows, sometimes just hours between exhibition install and opening, I’ve refined my approach over time. Capture efficiency has improved by 25–35% while maintaining full resolution and quality, allowing me to work quickly and confidently in tightly scheduled environments.

Despite a compact format, these virtual tours offer a rich and professional experience across all devices:

• Ultra-high-resolution deep zoom panoramas
• Clear navigation between exhibition rooms
• Informative hotspots for wall texts and featured artworks
• Clean, branded interface consistent with the Courtauld’s digital identity
• Fully responsive design optimised for desktop, tablet, and mobile

Each tour becomes a digital twin of the exhibition, a valuable tool for public engagement, institutional reference, and scholarly access.

This ongoing series has taught me how to work responsively within narrow timeframes while respecting the creative vision of curators, exhibition designers, and technical teams. I’ve deepened my skill in shooting high-resolution panoramic imagery under tight constraints and further streamlined my end-to-end workflow.

These projects have also shown me the importance of agility and preparation, being able to adapt quickly when faced with lighting changes or evolving access conditions.

These special exhibition tours have been widely used by the Courtauld for post-exhibition engagement, education, and archival purposes. They serve not only as a legacy of past shows, but also as a reference and resource for future planning.

As I continue to work with the Courtauld, more of these unique tours are in development. This case study will be updated with new exhibitions as they are completed — so please check back for the latest.