Saunders joined the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in 1979 and became the Senior Curator of Prints in 2006. Her expertise is mainly in 20th century and contemporary prints, drawings and paintings. In 2010 she co-curated Walls Are Talking, an exhibition of
wallpapers by contemporary artists, at the
Whitworth Art Gallery,
Manchester, and in 2011 Surface Noise, a show of innovative contemporary
printmaking at the
Jerwood Space in
London. In 2012, for the
British Council, she curated a loan exhibition of
street art prints, which toured in Libya. For the V&A she has devised a number of UK touring exhibitions, including Modern Masters in Print:
Matisse,
Picasso,
Dali and
Warhol (2015–17), Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture (2015–16), and Pop Art in Print (2017–18). She is an Honorary Member of the
Printmakers Council and wrote an essay on
Emma Stibbon for the book
Territories of Print 1994–2019 which accompanied her retrospective at the Rabbley Drawing Centre Gallery. == Publications ==