Artefact

Artefact is published by the Irish Association of Art Historians. We aim to provide an outlet for publication for new and emerging scholarship in Ireland, by Irish scholars living abroad or on topics relating to Irish visual and material culture. We welcome submissions on all periods and aspects of art and architectural history, design history and material and visual culture studies.

We will shortly be accepting submissions of articles and reviews for Issue 11. Artefact CFP 2024

Submissions, following the Artefact Submission and Style Guidelines, should be emailed to artefactjournal@gmail.com

  • Articles should be between 3,000 – 5,000 words long.
  • Exhibition and book reviews should be between 1,000 -2,000 words long,

Artefact is a peer reviewed journal published by the Irish Association of Art Historians .

The journal aims to demonstrate the range and diversity of new and emerging graduate and postgraduate research undertaken in Ireland, by Irish scholars living abroad or on topics related to Irish visual and material culture.  It is the only peer-reviewed journal in Ireland committed to publishing contemporary research in the areas of art history, design history, material culture and visual culture studies on Irish and internationally focused subjects.

We welcome submissions on topics related to Irish art history, design history, material and visual culture studies. We will also consider more internationally-focused subjects from Irish-based scholars.

For more information please email Artefact [artefactjournal@gmail.com].

Artefact CoverContributions to Issue 10 edition include:

Jessica O’Donnell. ‘Dublin should certainly see Bacon’s work’: The 1965 Francis Bacon exhibition at the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art

Larissa Vilhena. The Symbolic Setting and the Masculine/Feminine Dualism in Tennyson’s ‘Mariana’ (1830) and Millais’ Mariana (1851)

Meabh Delaney. Constance Markievicz’s Holloway Prison Watercolours and the Influence of the Celtic Revival

Eva SztabholzMaria Spilsbury Taylor (1776-1820): An Evolving Woman Artist

Shannon Carroll. Art in the Anthropocene: Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis

Reviews by Kathryn Milligan, Paul Donnelly, and Billy Shortall.

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Contributions to Issue 9 edition include:

Corrinna Ricasoli. Some New Evidence on the Tomb of the Cavalier d’ Arpino in San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome Corrinna Ricasoli

Aoife Frances Brady. A Copper Copy after Guido Reni

Tara Kelly. Purchasing the Past: Consumers of Irish Facsimile Jewellery 1840–1940

Kayla Rose. Reviving Illumination, Revealing Identity: The Illuminated Presentation Address in Ireland’s Celtic Revival

Billy Shortall. Hilary Heron: A Pioneering Modernist

Reviews