Her first role, shortly after graduating from art college, was as Gallery Co-ordinator at the then newly opened artist-led Spacex Gallery in Exeter in the early 1980s. She later went on to become Gallery Manager at the also newly opened Watershed in Bristol which, based in a large dockside warehouse, was at the time a major national centre for photography and film.

In 1989 she founded the Harewood Contemporary programme and opened the Terrace Gallery in Harewood House, the first designated contemporary art gallery to open in an English country house. Harewood Contemporary continues the Lascelles family’s historic commitment to commissioning new work and supporting creativity, showing emerging and established artists and makers alongside Harewood’s collections. She has continued to work closely with Harewood’s curatorial team in developing a changing programme of exhibitions and projects in Harewood House, gardens and landscape.

In 2005 she curated and produced Appearance, a large scale pop-up exhibition over the entire disused ground floor of an apartment block in Leeds city centre. In the following year this led to her, together with Kerry Harker and Pippa Hale, founding PSL (Project Space Leeds) and presenting an ongoing programme of exhibitions and projects in this same space until 2012. Over this time PSL gained support and regular funding becoming an ACE National Portfolio Organisation and in 2012 moved to its new home The Tetley.

She is actively engaged with the arts nationally and specifically in Yorkshire. She is Chair and was one of the key founders of the Geraldine Connor Foundation, Trustee of the Hepworth Wakefield, Patron of SI Leeds Literary Prize and Patron of the Yorkshire Gardens Trust amongst others.

As an artist her work has been shown in many exhibitions and is in a number of public and private collections. She has also worked collaboratively with other artists and curators on a wide range of different projects and often seeks unusual or unconventional spaces to show her own and other artists’ work. In 2019 she set up her own company Lawn, based at Harewood Yard, to further develop these activities. Mostly recently her paintings and drawings were included in Psychotropics curated by Iwona Blazwick at the New Art Centre, Roche Court.

Following the death of her father-in-law in 2011, she became Countess of Harewood. She has been a trustee of the Harewood House Trust since 1990.