Grace Johnston

Curatorial Archivist

Grace Johnston

Grace works as Curatorial Archivist within the moving image team at the BFI National Archive. Previously, she worked as Screencraft Archivist, during which she archived the BFI’s first digital document and visual arts archive. Whilst at the BFI, Grace has worked across analogue moving image materials and filmmakers’ paper and digital archives. 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 (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 Audio Cataloguer and was Cataloguer of the Tony Benn Audio Visual Archive, the Library’s largest multi-format collection.