Grace Johnston

Curatorial Archivist

Grace Johnston

Grace works as Curatorial Archivist in the moving image curatorial department, working across analogue collections. She previously worked as Screencraft Archivist, where she helped to develop digital archival practice. Grace has worked across analogue moving image, filmmakers’ paper archives and digital document and visual arts archives at the BFI. She served as Co-Chair of the Digital Film-Related Documentation Taskforce (2024-2026) and was co-curator of the BFI season Beyond the Frame: Women Filmmakers and Their Archives (January 2026).

Before joining the BFI, Grace worked in various roles at the British Library, primarily within the Sound Archive. She contributed to the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project as an Audio Cataloguer and was responsible for cataloguing the Tony Benn Audio Visual Archive, the British Library’s largest multi-format collection.