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British Art Studies is an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art.

Issue 1 – November 2015

Tapestry. Patterns in maroon, dusky pink, white, navy, sky blue, sage green, and pale yellow intermix in this close view of low-pile rug. Several eyes of different sizes are woven among the patterns. The shimmering gold back of the rug is visible where it flips over near the bottom right corner.
Linder, Diagrams of Love: Marriage of Eyes (dithered detail), 2015. Digital image courtesy of Linder Sterling / Dovecot Tapestry Studio, 2015. Photo credit, Michael Wolchover. Courtesy the artist, Stuart Shave/Modern Art and Dovecot Studios Ltd.
ARTICLE
Editorial
By *British Art Studies* Editorial Group
CONVERSATION PIECE
There’s No Such Thing as British Art
Coordinated by Richard Johns
ARTICLE
A beautiful assemblage of an interesting nature: Gainsborough’s Charity Relieving Distress and the Reconciliation of High and Low Art
By Georgina Cole
ARTICLE
Painting that Grows Back: Futures Past and the Ur-feminist Art of Magda Cordell McHale, 1955–1961
By Giulia Smith
ONE OBJECT
Haptic Blackness: The Double Life of an 18th-century Bust
By Cyra Levenson
and Chi-ming Yang
photo-essay by Ken Gonzales-Day
ARTICLE
Arts and Crafts Painting: The Political Agency of Things
By Morna O'Neill
LOOK FIRST
Deakin: Double Exposures
Discussion between Paul Rousseau
and James Boaden
with films by Jonathan Law
ARTICLE
Pregnant Wit: ingegno in Renaissance England
By Alexander Marr
ARTICLE
Varieties of Photographic Experience: Frederick H. Evans and the Lantern Slide
By Kara Fiedorek
ARTICLE
Abstraction’s Ecologies: Post-Industrialization, Waste and the Commodity Form in Prunella Clough’s Paintings of the 1980s and 1990s
By Catherine Spencer
ARTIST COLLABORATION
British Art Show 8
By Roger Malbert