Evelyn Ann Silber (born 22 May 1949) is an English art historian and an acknowledged specialist on 20th century British sculpture.
[4] During this time she was a Leverhulme Research Fellow undertaking research for her doctoral thesis into the origins of the illuminations of the medieval manuscripts Speculum Humanae Salvationis[5] and published a paper ‘The Reconstructed Toledo Speculum Humanae Salvationis: The Italian Connection in the Early Fourteenth Century’ in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes in 1980.
In 1995, Silber became Director of Leeds Museums and Gallery, where she was responsible for 7 sites,[7] all of whom benefitted from Lottery funding during her six year tenure.
The value of the treasure to the nation was acknowledged by Dr Evelyn Silber, in her capacity as Chair of SAFAP, to the BBC in a news report dated 12 May 2017; "The panel is grateful to the finder for reporting these stunning artefacts which include decorative glass beads, silver bracelets and brooches, a gold ring, a bird-shaped gold pin and a highly-decorated gilt vessel recognised as being one of only three known examples.
"[18]Silber took up the position with SAFAP in January 2012 after retiring as Chair of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, a post she had held for 6 years.
For example, she was Chair of the Victoria Forum[20] that was formed so that local people could have their say on the future of the Victoria Infirmary site[21] and Chair of the Queens Park Arena; a project, as Silber explained in a quote for Glasgow Live, to regenerate the fire damaged and derelict site into a “community-led venue attracting a wide variety of performance from music and dance to food and sports activities”.