The Irish Association of Art Historians sponsors an annual study day which highlights new and in-progress research currently being undertaken throughout the country in art & architectural history, design history, material and visual culture studies.
2012 IAAH/Artefact Study Day – Saturday, 14 April.
Venue: Board Room, Master’s Quarters, North Range, Irish Museum of Modern Art
10.00-10.15 – registration [Please be advised that IMMA does not open until 10.00]
- Syphilis, Spots, Succour and Spirit: the bunter in Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress – Sarah Maguire, University College Dublin
- Sketching Modern Motherhood: The Drawings of Maria Spilsbury – Emma O’Toole, National College of Art & Design
- Notions of old and the older woman – Geraldine Canavan, University College Dublin
- Beauty in the Streets: the legacy of the Atelier Populaire – Holly Brennan, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire
- Colour Commentary- Tracing Racial Formations from European Art to American Sport – Sean Dunne, Trinity College Dublin
- ‘Instruments of Inducement’ – Limerick Gloves and Gift Exchange in the Late Eighteenth-Century – Liza Foley, National College of Art & Design
- ‘Naive’ or ‘Primitive’ portraiture in Irish art – Darragh O’Donoghue, Trinity College Dublin
- The Art of Illumination in Ulster During the Victorian Period: Marcus Ward and Co., John Vinycomb, & the Celtic Revival – Kalya Rose, University of Ulster
- Viewing the display: using visitor accounts to explore the lost art collections of the Earl Bishop (1780s-1820s) – Rebecca Campion, NUI, Maynooth
- Designing for God – Eimir O’Brien, National College of Art & Design
- Themes of Death and Rebirth in Roman Funerary Art – Sarah Wilson, University College Dublin
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2011 Study Day Participants:
- Louis Weyhe Funder – Modern Danish Furniture and Finn Juhl
- Siobhán Enright – Gendering the Car: Automobile Advertising in Twentieth Century Ireland
- Jennifer Fitzgibbon – Cultures in Transit: Artistic mobility between Britain and Ireland since 1970
- Jessica Fahy - Engaging the Female Viewer in Sacred Spaces: Botticelli’s altarpiece The Holy Trinity with Saints (1491-94) for the nuns of Sant’Elisabetta dell Convertile
- Niamh A. O’Sullivan – Space and women art students in the early years of the Slade School of Art: an examination of Dorothy Tennant’s relationship with physical and emotional space in the Slade, 1873-1877 -
- Valerie Alexander – Anne Yeats (1919-2001)
- Karen Ralph – All Aboard: Iconographical Interpretation Problems in the Book of Ballymote Miniature
- Silvia Guglielmini – Designing Irish Identity on Posters: The Politics of Tourism Representations in An Tostal
- Kathryn Milligan – Dear Dirty Dublin: Harry Kernoff and the Modern City
- Jessica Cunningham – National Identity and the Visual Language of the Home Rule Movement
- Fiona Fullam – Art/Writing
2010 Study Day Participants:
- Rose Mary Cullen, Stitched with Devotion: The Agnus Dei and the Piety Case as Devotional Objects
- Ruth Musielak, Madame da Cunha prefers her own ‘Dunghill’ to a Palace: city lodging and country visiting in early eighteenth-century London
- Bláithín Hurley, The Display of Magnificence and Splendore as described by Giovanni Pontano in his I trattati delle Virtù sociali
- Caroline McGee, ‘A Lady Painting in a Glade’: reassessing the work of Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1941)
- Amanda Holloway, Insert Experience Here: Reframing the Self in Northern Ireland between Memory, Testimony and Belonging
- Rachel Warriner, A Hellish History: 1950s culture and massmedia in Rauschenberg’s XXXIV Drawings for Dante’s Inferno
- John P Hartnett, Derrida by Default: WolfgangWeingart & the Accidental Deconstruction of Swiss Typography
- Gemma Carroll, Encountering Merz: Face to Face
- Wendy Williams, If you are an Irishman… Recruiting posters, 1914 – c.1935
2009 Study Day Participants:
- Orla Fitzpatrick Victorian gallery: Louisa Tenison’s photographic and mixed media album, 1864-1874
- Mary Healy Women Orientalist Artist-Explorers of 19th Century France: uncovering the life narrative, artistic career and oeuvre of Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas Robiquet (1858-1959)
- Niamh NicGhabhann Reconstructions of the Gothic Past – Cultures of Conservation
- Muireann Charleton Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: a cocktail for consumer craving in a rural Irish department store, 1878-1930
- Anna Kadzik-Bartoszewska Uniforms of the earthly calling: studies of the Egyptian archaeological garments from the collection of the National Museum of Ireland
- Hannah Olivia Malone Private and public memory: the Staglieno Cemetery at Genoa
- Valerie Moffat Material Culture and Motherhood in late Eighteenth-Century Dublin: the case of Mrs. Meliora Adlercron
- Louise Kelly The Representation of Barrack Room Scenes (Kortegaardjes) by Pieter Codde in 17th Century Dutch Art
- Hilary Sexton Music or Sound as an Integral Element of Irish Contemporary Art Practice: A Focus on Vivienne Roche; Her Formal and Conceptual Use of Musical Instruments
- Kathleen Hamel Claudel translates Ovid
- Michael Waldron Much (and perhaps the best) of my writing is verbal painting: the Modernist Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen
2008 Study Day Participants:
- Jane Humphries From subversion to celebration: the emergence of a domestic avant-garde in contemporary Irish art
- Reidin McSweeney RE: PERFORMANCE – the role of the audience in the documentation of Marina Abramovic’s performances
- Simon Knowles Two-way traffic: the sister arts tradition and urban representations in nineteenth-century England
- Lucy Dawe-Lane Staring into space: an examination of two of Goya’s portraits as reflections upon artistic identity and process
- Fiona Loughnane Colin Middleton, Dalí and the originality of Irish art
- Liam Lenihan James Barry and Henry Fuseli: a partial view of fragment and fantasy
- Audrey Nicholls The representation of beauty and luxury in the Venetian narrative theme of Christ and the adulteress
