Past Events

Spring 2013: Research Lunches

Research Lunch – Jonny Yarker

Paul Mellon Centre

Pocket-book imagery in the paper collections of Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818)

Research Lunch – Arlene Leis

Paul Mellon Centre

Redressing William Etty (1787-1849)

Research Lunch – Beatrice Bertram

Paul Mellon Centre

Quacks, Peddlars and Pastellists: Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) in London

Research Lunch – Francesca Whitlum-Cooper

Paul Mellon Centre

Spring 2014: Research Lunches

Research Lunch

Paul Mellon Centre

James Hakewill and the Politics of Slavery

Research Lunch – Sarah Thomas

Paul Mellon Centre

Art World Dissidents and their Alternative Identities: Art & Language, Bob and Roberta Smith, Spartacus Chetwynd and Lucky PDF

Research Lunch – Nicola McCartney

Paul Mellon Centre

Summer 2014 Research Lunches

Research Lunch

Paul Mellon Centre

Copying Gainsborough: Paul Sandby and the refashioning of his artistic identity

Research Lunch – Rosie Razzall

Paul Mellon Centre

Dialectics of Liberation: Kinetic Theatre and Strategies of Resistance

Research Lunch – Sylvie Simonds

Paul Mellon Centre

‘To Illustrate the Beautiful and Noble’: The Drawings of George Frederic Watts

Research Lunch – Chloe Kroeter

Paul Mellon Centre

Nicholas Hawksmoor, Oxford, and Eighteenth-Century Europe

Research Lunch – Eleonora Pistis

Paul Mellon Centre

Heads and Hands: Josiah Wedgwood's Jasper Portrait Medallions

Research Lunch – Brigid von Preussen

Paul Mellon Centre

Statements of artistic identity in Vanessa Bell’s self-portraits

Research Lunch – Hana Leaper

Paul Mellon Centre

The Scougall Family, Scottish Portraiture of the Restoration Period

Research Lunch – Carla van de Puttelaar

Paul Mellon Centre

Cross Paths and Currents: Cubist and Constructive work in wartime St Ives

Research Lunch – Rachel Rose Smith

Paul Mellon Centre

Primitive forms and prospects: geological landscapes in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain

Research Lunch – Allison Ksiazkiewicz

Paul Mellon Centre

Peaks and Pencils: Victorian Illustrations and Paintings of the Dolomite Mountains

Research Lunch – William Bainbridge

Paul Mellon Centre

Screening and discussion of ‘Trewyn Studio’, a new film on Barbara Hepworth’s studio-museum

Research Lunch – Helena Bonett, Jonathan Law

Paul Mellon Centre

With dots and rays: Autochrome photography and artistic expression in Britain

Research Lunch – Caroline Fuchs

Paul Mellon Centre

Ambitious Architecture: Rethinking the meanings of Blenheim Palace

Research Lunch – James Legard

Paul Mellon Centre

Inquisitive Eyes: Recovering a Lost Chapter in British Art

Research Lunch – Gwen Yarker

Paul Mellon Centre

Philip Alexius de László: A Catalogue Raisonné in Progress

Research Lunch – Katherine Field

Paul Mellon Centre

Collecting watercolours: questions of landscape and Englishness, c. 1890-1914

Research Lunch – Jessica Feather

Paul Mellon Centre

"Curiously Engraven from the Life": Animating the Body in Late Seventeenth-Century London

Research Lunch – Sophie Morris

Paul Mellon Centre

Breaking down the South London Art Group's A Woman's Place (1974)

Research Lunch – Amy Tobin

Paul Mellon Centre

Private View: 'A particularly soft English hardback'

Research Lunch – Lisa Tickner

Paul Mellon Centre

‘Did Babel e’er rise faster?’: the changing image of Brighton, 1820–50

Research Lunch – Amy Concannon

Paul Mellon Centre

Promoting Pastel: exhibitions of the pastel medium in late nineteenth century Britain

Research Lunch – Freya Spoor

Paul Mellon Centre

The Work of Artists

Research Lunch – Thomas Crow, Helena Bonett, Vid Simoniti, Alexander Massouras, Elena Crippa

Paul Mellon Centre

The Great British Gatehouse: Ready, Get Set, Build!

Research Lunch – Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez

Paul Mellon Centre

Concealment & Deception: The Art of the Camoufleurs of Leamington Spa, 1939-1945

Research Lunch – Chloe Johnson, Jeff Watkin

Paul Mellon Centre

Italy revisited – Nino Costa (1826-1903) and the Etruscan School of Art

Research Lunch – Arnika Groenewald-Schmidt

Paul Mellon Centre

Samuel Wale's book illustrations: Designing Historical Panoramas in Georgian London

Research Lunch – Isabelle Baudino

Paul Mellon Centre

‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’: Art at Court in the Aftermath of the Barons’ War, 1258-1266

Research Lunch – Laura Slater

Paul Mellon Centre

Iconography on the Edge/s: constructing space and the sacred in Anglo-Saxon England

Research Lunch – Meg Boulton

Paul Mellon Centre

'An intense consciousness of the present': Ruskin, Pater and the drawing of modern life

Research Lunch – Thomas Hughes

Paul Mellon Centre

Catholic emancipation, Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847) and the Catholic Association in print: Satirical Printmaking in Dublin in the late 1820s

Research Lunch – Carly Hegenbarth

Paul Mellon Centre

Talks by Greg Salter and Sophie Hatchwell

Research Lunch – Gregory Salter, Sophie Hatchwell

Paul Mellon Centre

Forming a Community: Siegfried Charoux’s Maquette for The Neighbours (1957–59)

Research Lunch – Melanie Veasey

Paul Mellon Centre

Frederick Walker and the Idyllists – Unsung Masters of Victorian Art

Research Lunch

'Your Beautiful and Hopeful Family’: Dynasty, Duff House And the House of Duff

Research Lunch – Helen Whiting

Paul Mellon Centre

‘The Last Sad Testimony of Affection’: Portraiture as Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Research Lunch – Emily Knight

Paul Mellon Centre

Re-assessing ‘liveliness’ in Post-Reformation English visual culture

Research Lunch – Christina Faraday

Paul Mellon Centre

The Commonwealth Institute: Contexts, Collaborations, Contestations

Research Lunch

Paul Mellon Centre

‘Nor is the figure a mere theatrical portrait’: Exhibiting and Reproducing Theatrical Portraits in London, 1830 – 1860

Research Lunch – Tessa Kilgarriff

Public Art and its Publics in Post-War Britain

Research Lunch – Robert Sutton

Paul Mellon Centre

Cruikshank's Alcoholics and The Addict in Austerity

Research Lunch – Susannah Walker

Paul Mellon Centre

AS in DS: The World of Alison Smithson

Research Lunch – Giulia Smith

Art History From Below: The Demotic Portraits of a Journeyman Facemaker

Research Lunch – David Hansen

Perceiving Prints in 18th Print Rooms: Commerce, Play and Display

Research Lunch – Louise Voll Box

Travellers and Translators: The Returning Indian Turban as East India Company Uniform, c.1760-1810

Research Lunch – Beth Richards

The Lost Collection: Charles I and Whitehall Palace, A Digital Initiative

Research Lunch – Niko Munz

Ancient Sculpture & the Narratives of Collecting: (Re)Contextualising the Collection & Display of Classical Art in Britain

Research Lunch – Nicole Cochrane

Paul Mellon Centre

Neo-classical Display in the Suburbs: Recreating a Lost Adam Garden Temple Built for George Bubb Dodington

Research Lunch – Clare Hornsby, Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez

Paul Mellon Centre

From London to Paris: Defining the British School Through Printmaking

Research Lunch – Alice Ottazzi

The Central School of Arts and Crafts: An ‘informal nucleus’ of Collaborative Practices in Post-War London

Research Lunch – Rosie Ram

Paul Mellon Centre

**CANCELLED** The Earl, his heir and their psalter: the patrons and artist of the Ormesby Psalter and East Anglian medieval painting

Research Lunch – Dr Frederica Law Turner

Paul Mellon Centre

The Duchess of Portland’s Museum-Salon: Bluestocking Collecting, Craft and Conversation, c. 1770-1786

Research Lunch – Madeleine Pelling

Paul Mellon Centre

Sublime Symmetry: The Mathematics Behind William De Morgan’s Designs

Research Lunch – Sarah Hardy

Paul Mellon Centre

The Magic Hand of Chance: Reframing Modern Textiles in the Interwar Shop

Research Lunch – Lotte Crawford

Paul Mellon Centre

In Search of the Landscape Artists’ Studio: Database and Map of London 1780-1850

Research Lunch – Rhian Addison

Paul Mellon Centre

‘Mannered beauty and theatric grace’: Guido Reni and the Royal Academy

Research Lunch – Amy Parrish

Paul Mellon Centre

The Hearth and the Inferno: LCC Fire Safety Displays at the Ideal Home Exhibition, 1958-63

Research Lunch – Alistair Cartwright

Paul Mellon Centre

Audio Arts Archive: From Inventory Space to Imagined Space

Research Lunch – Lucia Farinati

Paul Mellon Centre

Between art and science: British and Chinese 'hybrid' botanic art in 18th century Canton

Research Lunch – Josepha Richard

Paul Mellon Centre

Brexit and the Occult: Gendered Ghosts of Empire

Research Lunch – Dr Edwin Coomasaru

Paul Mellon Centre

The Hayward Annual 1978: A Case Study in Combating Male 'Artocracy'

Research Lunch – Jennifer Dudley

Paul Mellon Centre

Merlyn Evans’ Vertical Suite in Black (1957) and the Trajectory of ‘Primitivism’ in British Art from Vorticism to the Independent Group

Research Lunch – Michael Clegg

Paul Mellon Centre

Narrating British Art: Robert de la Sizeranne’s Use of Insularity

Research Lunch – Julie Lageyre

Paul Mellon Centre

'A Liberation of Spirit': Transatlantic Seascapes by Winifred Nicholson and John Marin

Research Lunch – Samantha Niederman

Paul Mellon Centre

Performing Transnationalisms in the Works of Rasheed Araeen, Prafulla Mohanti and Sutapa Biswas

Research Lunch – Eva Bentcheva

Paul Mellon Centre

Bill Brandt & Henry Moore: Photography in Four Dimensions

Research Lunch – Martina Droth, Paul Messier

Paul Mellon Centre

Surface, Depth and Form: John Ruskin’s ‘The Nature of Gothic’

Research Lunch – Thomas Hughes

Paul Mellon Centre

Sculpting a Post-War Future: The Bombsite in Art School Education

Research Lunch – Isabelle Mooney

Paul Mellon Centre

Keith Arnatt’s Conceptualist Critique of Conceptual Art

Research Lunch – Christian Berger

Paul Mellon Centre

*Postponed* Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and Sir John Soane, 1793–1815

Research Lunch – Rebecca Tropp

Paul Mellon Centre

Uncertain Grounds and Absent Figures in Tina’s Keane’s Faded Wallpaper (1988)

Research Lunch – Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell

*Postponed* The Waitresses in Scotland, 1978

Research Lunch – Harry Weeks

'Dying a Very British Death: Ecstatic Antibodies and the Possibilities of Censorship of Queer Art in Britain, c.1990'

Research Lunch – Theo Gordon

'Black Art' and British Art History

Research Lunch – Elizabeth Robles

Contagion

Research Lunch – Jade Montserrat

Affective Proximities

Research Lunch – Dr Jessica Carden, Dr Tiffany Boyle

Rewriting the Script: Theatre Playwriting Practice and the Design of an Ecological, Sustainable Theatre

Research Lunch – Hamish Muir

Foto Studio Bluefields: Photography and Political Life on the Nicaraguan Caribbean

Research Lunch – Ileana L. Selejan