Issue Index
British Art Studies provides an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art, architecture, and visual culture in their most diverse and international contexts. It is co-published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and reflects their dynamic research cultures.
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Issue 24 – March 2023
Installation view, Jala Wahid: Conflagration, 22 October–30 April 2023, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
Digital image courtesy of Jala Wahid. Photo: Rob Harris © 2022 BALTIC (all rights reserved).
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Issue 23 – August 2022
The Market Woman’s Story: Contemporary Ceramics by Jacqueline Bishop (film still), 2022.
Digital image courtesy of Shelbourne Films, produced by Lucy Andia for British Art Studies (CC BY NC 4.0).
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Issue 22 – April 2022
Thames River Works
James McNeill Whistler, Brown and Silver: Old Battersea Bridge (detail), 1862–1865, oil on canvas mounted on masonite, 63.8 × 76 cm. Collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art (1928.55).
Digital image courtesy of the Addison Gallery of American Art / Bridgeman Images (all rights reserved).
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Issue 21 – November 2021
Redefining the British Decorative Arts
Michelle Erickson, Remember, from the MADE IN USA series, 2020, commercial Starbucks “MADE IN USA” mug with artist’s ceramic transfer designs and gold and pink luster enamel, height: 4.5 in. Collection of the Chipstone Foundation.
Digital image courtesy of the artist / Photograph by Robert Hunter (all rights reserved).
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Issue 20 – July 2021
Rita Duffy, Soften the Border, 2017, installation on Blacklion-Belcoo bridge, dimensions variable.
Digital image courtesy of Rita Duffy (all rights reserved).
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Issue 19 – February 2021
Victor Ehikhamenor, I Am Ogiso, The King from Heaven (detail), 2017, rosary beads and thread on lace textile, 103 × 69 in.
Digital image courtesy of Victor Ehikhamenor (all rights reserved).
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Issue 18 – November 2020
Michael Leung, Mr. Lam turning the bone-setter illuminated sign on and off for the last time at the front entrance of his home, Yeung UK San Village, Wang Chau, 17 October 2020.
Digital image courtesy of Michel Leung.
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Issue 17 – September 2020
Elizabethan and Jacobean Miniature Paintings in Context
Left portrait: Isaac Oliver, Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, later Duke of Richmond, circa 1605, watercolour on vellum, laid onto table-book leaf, 5.7 × 4.4 cm. Collection of National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 3063); Right portrait: Isaac Oliver, Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, later Duke of Richmond, circa 1603, watercolour on vellum, laid on card, 4.9 × 4 cm. Collection of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (FM 3869).
Digital image courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London (All rights reserved); Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (All rights reserved).
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Issue 16 – June 2020
Bill Brandt, A Group of Coal Searchers near Heworth, Tyneside, Pithead Train in the Distance (recto), 1937, printed circa 1966, photographic print.
Digital image courtesy of Bill Brandt and the Bill Brandt Archive Ltd. Photography by Richard Caspole and Robert Hixon.
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Issue 15 – February 2020
Laura Grace Ford, Alpha, Isis, Eden, installation photograph, 1 February – 18 March 2017, multi-media installation made in collaboration with sound engineer Jack Latham.
Digital image courtesy of Laura Grace Ford.
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Issue 14 – November 2019
James Richards, on the side of the disease and not the cure, 2019.
Digital image courtesy of James Richards.
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Issue 13 – September 2019
London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories
Ada Hao, Still from "like a flower paddle my teeth" (5:30), 2019.
Digital image courtesy of Ada Hao.
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Issue 12 – May 2019
Mary Potter, End of Daylight, 1954, oil on canvas, 74.2 × 99.6 cm. Collection of Museums Sheffield (VIS.2584).
Digital image courtesy of the estate of Mary Potter, DACS 2019. Photo courtesy of Museums Sheffield (All rights reserved).
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Issue 11 – March 2019
Theatres of War: Experimental Performance in London, 1914–1918 and Beyond
Film still, The Ballet of the Nations, 2018.
Digital image courtesy of Impermanence.
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Issue 10 – November 2018
Landscape Now
David Alesworth and Shakila Haider, Gardens of England, Bryant's Hill, 2017, watercolour on wasli paper, 30 × 34 cm.
Digital image courtesy of David Alesworth and Shakila Haider.
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Issue 9 – August 2018
Jonathan Law, The Boy-Narcissus, still from film, 2018.
Digital image courtesy of Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art with support from the staff of Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Issue 8 – June 2018
Mairi Chisholm, “Gypsy”, Chisholm's nickname for Elsie Knocker, Pervyse, 1915.
Digital image courtesy of National Library of Scotland.
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Issue 7 – November 2017
Clare Twomey, Made in China, ceramic vessels, 2016. Installed at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017.
Digital image courtesy of Yale Center for British Art | Photo: Richard Caspole
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Issue 6 – June 2017
Invention and Imagination in British Art and Architecture, 600–1500
Unknown maker, MS 8932, depicting the Zodiac Man, circa 1415–20, England, paint and ink on parchment, 13 × 12 cm. Collection of the Wellcome Library, London.
Digital image courtesy of Wellcome Library.
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Issue 5 – April 2017
Francis Alexander Skidmore and Sir George Gilbert Scott, The Hereford Screen (detail), 1862, painted wrought and cast iron, brass, copper, timber, mosaics, and hardstones. Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Given by Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry (M.251:1 to 316-1984).
Digital image courtesy of Justin Underhill
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Issue 4 – November 2016
Martin Parr, Gourock Lido, Scotland, UK, 2004
Digital image courtesy of Martin Parr / © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos (LON65518)
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Issue 3 – July 2016
British Sculpture Abroad, 1945 – 2000
Simon Starling, Project for a Masquerade (Hiroshima) (film still), 2010–11. 16 mm film transferred to digital (25 minutes, 45 seconds), wooden masks, cast bronze masks, bowler hat, metals stands, suspended mirror, suspended screen, HD projector, media player, and speakers. Dimensions variable
Digital image courtesy of the artist
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Issue 2 – April 2016
David Lewis, Library Light, 2016
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Issue 1 – November 2015
Bedwyr Williams, Century Egg (video still), 2015, Commissioned by the University of Cambridge North West Cambridge Development through the Habitation Artist in Residency Programme managed by Contemporary Art Society and Insite Arts
Digital image courtesy of the artist and Limoncello Gallery