The 2016 IAAH/Artefact Study Day was held on Saturday, 12 March at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Study Day Participants:
- Dr Colleen M. Thomas – The Evangelists’ Shoes and Monastic Fashion– The 9th Century Edit
- Laura McCloskey – Pre-Christian Stylistic Motifs and Symbolism in the Book of Durrow and the Book of Kells
- Katherine Sedovic – Naïve Youth or Enlightened Knight? Depictions of Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval in Parchment and Ivory
- Killian Downing and Nicola O’Shea – The Sir Denis Mahon Library and Archive: An Introduction
- Aoife Brady – Guido Reni: Workshop Practices and Painting Techniques
- Geraldine Canavan – Queen Victoria’s Sun-Pictures: Photographic Portraits after 1861
- Rosemarie Devereux – An examination of the illustrations in the magazine A Celtic Christmas (1897-1910)
- William Shortall – Hilary Heron: A Pioneering Modernist
- Jan Frohburg – “…with more Picassos than anyone else in America” Mary Callery –artist, collector, benefactor
The 2015 IAAH/Artefact Study Day was held on Saturday, 21 March at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Study Day Participants:
- Rachel Healy – A Venetian Double Portrait in the National Gallery of Ireland: A Question of Identity
- Elaine Hoysted – Art in the Service of the Ideal – Depicting the Maternal Bond in Ghirlandaio’s Birth of the Virgin, Tornabuoni Chapel, Santa Maria Novella
- Laura Fitzachary – Reviewing the Reliquary Shrine: The Effects of Pilgrimage Culture and Growing Papal Authority on Administering Relic and Saint Cults in Ireland
- Paul Donnelly – The Rise and Fall of Harry Clarke Stained Glass Limited
- Kerstina Mortensen – Photo/Memory: Recovering Memory and Identity through Photographs in Post-1945 Art and Literature
- Julie Daunt – Breaking Down the Walls: A Reassessment of the Belfast Murals
- Jacqueline Wylie – A New Canvas? How are Visual Artists Exploiting the Emergent Potential of Social Media and the Internet; and How do the Hybrid Methodologies Required to Work in this Medium Impact on Material (Post-Digital) Practice?
The 2014 IAAH/Artefact Study Day was held on Saturday, 12 April at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Study Day Participants:
- Dr Sinéad Furlong-Clancy –Fashion and the Painting of Parisian Modernity: New Academic and Curatorial Perspectives
- Anusia Grennell –The Designer-Agent: Jan van Toorn at Van Abbemuseum, 1964-1973
- Robin Fuller – Lissitzky’s Ambiguous Spaces
- Małgorzata Dynak – Saint Demetrius’ Equestrian Iconography and the Icons from the Natasha Allen Collection (NGI)
- Padraig Edwards – Italian Form, Irish Function: An Analysis of the Fresco Cycle Decorating the Interior of the Aula Teologica in the Franciscan Convent of San Isidoro, Rome
- Emer Lynch – The Production of Irish Penal Crucifixes: Commodity or Concealment?
- Dr Louise Kelly – Pieter Codde and his manipulation of the 17thCentury Amsterdam Art Market
- Aleksandra Jaśniewicz – Beyond the Courtier`s Mask: Portraits in Gdańsk in the 2nd half of the 17th Century
- Michael O’Sullivan – A Formal Seventeenth-Century Elite Garden at Doneraile, Co. Cork
- Bengü Aydin – Turkish Artists in the Quest of “New Art”: The Repercussions of Modernism in the Nation-Building Process of the 1930s with a Comparative Perspective to European and non-European Modernists
- Seana Farrington – Turning Information into Data: Taking the Bantry Papers Archive Online
- Alexandra Murphy – Artist/Administrator/Entrepreneur: Individual Roles and Organisational Forms in Irish Artist-Run Galleries
- Kathryn O’Regan – ‘The Highly Significant Fragment’: Allegory, Enigma and Politics in Rosemarie Trockel’s Collages since 2004
The 2013 IAAH/Artefact Study Day was held on Saturday, 20 April at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Study Day Participants:
- Emma Mahony – The Deviant Art Institution and the Public Sphere
- Mark O’Brien – ‘Rock, Paper Scissors: The DIY Punk Zine and its Influence in Contemporary Visual Culture’
- Martina Hynan – Visions of Reproduction: The Anatomical Venus in Victorian Dublin
- Nina Holmes – Prescribing Ideologies: Symptoms of Modernism and Modernity in Irish Government Health Campaigns (1950-1964)
- Jennifer Keane – A Room with a View: The Virgin and Child attributed to Botticelli at the Stibbert Museum, Florence
- Jessica Fahy- ‘For Her Eyes Only’: Bronzino’s Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo
- Deirdre Kelly – The Irish at the Armory 1913
- Sarah Kelleher – Coming Close to Touch: Trauma, Empathy and Affect in the Site-Specific Installations of Rebecca Horn
- Donncha MacGabhann – Turning the Tables – an alternative hypothesis for understanding the canon tables in the Book of Kells
- Leslie O’Connor Turner – Sacred Text, Secular Artist: Mapping the Geographies of Bordone’s illumination of the Evangeliary of Santa Giustina
- Mary Jane Boland – A moment from a story or the story of a moment? The literary construction of paintings of everyday life from early-nineteenth-century Ireland
- Sue Rainsford – Inscriptive Thorns: Textuality as Artwork, Writing as Visual Presence
The 2012 IAAH/Artefact Study Day was held on Saturday, 14 April at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
2012 Study Day Participants:
- Sarah Maguire – Syphilis, Spots, Succour and Spirit: the bunter in Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress
- Emma O’Toole– Sketching Modern Motherhood: The Drawings of Maria Spilsbury
- Geraldine Canavan – Notions of old and the older woman
- Holly Brennan – Beauty in the Streets: the legacy of the Atelier Populaire
- Sean Dunne – Colour Commentary- Tracing Racial Formations from European Art to American Sport
- Liza Foley – ‘Instruments of Inducement’ – Limerick Gloves and Gift Exchange in the Late Eighteenth-Century
- Darragh O’Donoghue – ‘Naive’ or ‘Primitive’ portraiture in Irish art
- Kalya Rose – The Art of Illumination in Ulster During the Victorian Period: Marcus Ward and Co., John Vinycomb, & the Celtic Revival
- Rebecca Campion – Viewing the display: using visitor accounts to explore the lost art collections of the Earl Bishop (1780s-1820s)
- Eimir O’Brien – Designing for God
- Sarah Wilson – Themes of Death and Rebirth in Roman Funerary Art
The 2011 IAAH/Artefact Study Day was held on Saturday, 9 April at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
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
The 2010 IAAH/Artefact Study Day was held on Saturday, 10 April at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.
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
The 2009 IAAH/Artefact Study Day was held on Saturday, 4 April at Newman House.
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
The 2008 IAAH/Artefact Study Day was held on Saturday, 1 March at Newman House.
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
