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