Background
Henry was born in Sheffield in England.
Henry was born in Sheffield in England.
She attended Queen Elizabeth"s Academy which is in Nottinghamshire. And graduated in Fine Art from Reading University.
She was the The Glasgow Herald"s chief art critic. In 2000 she reviewed art exhibitions in North America for the Financial Times. She worked as a researcher for the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Artist
During the 1970s she was involved with the Glasgow Print Studio, latterly as Chairman.
Henry was chief art critic for The Herald from 1980 to 2000. During this perios she would write on average four articles per week with an emphasis on Scottish art
From 2000 she was chief American art critic for the Financial Times until 2008, based in New New York In 1983 Henry curated an exhibition for the United Kingdom arts festival, Britain Salutes New New York
This led to a series of curatorial projects including one at London"s Serpentine in 1985, Edinburgh Festival in 1986, selecting "The Vigorous Imagination" exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1987, which culminated in 1990 when she was curator for Scotland at the 44th Venice Biennale.
In 2013 Henry donated her 30-year archive of original drafts to Glasgow School of Artist Henry has donated a large collection of papers, ephemera and photographs covering the period from 1981 to 1999 to the archives of the Glasgow School of Artist
