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
Hew Locke, Huan Tian Xi Di, 2016, acrylic paint on C-TYPE photograph, 124.5 × 174 cm.
Digital image courtesy of DACS/Artimage 2022 (all rights reserved).
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Issue 21 – November 2021
Redefining the British Decorative Arts
Michelle Erickson, Shell Dish and Helios Dish, 2021, 3D scanned printed, molded and slipcast porcelain with lifecast lobster and antler and ceramic transfer prints, width: 8 in. 3D scanning and printing done in collaboration with Dr Bernard Means at the Virtual Curation Lab, Virginia Commonwealth University. Collection of the artist.
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
Angela Chan, Moss Rain Paradox (project preview), video still, 2020.
Digital image courtesy of Angela Chan (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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Issue 17 – September 2020
Elizabethan and Jacobean Miniature Paintings in Context
Isaac Oliver, Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and Duke of Richmond (photo-micrograph), circa 1603, 4.9 × 4 cm. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (FM 3869).
Digital image courtesy of Fitzwilliam Museum.
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Issue 16 – June 2020
Bill Brandt, Family Supper (recto), 1937, printed circa 1943, 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
Bettina Fung, Circle Loop, 2019.
Digital image courtesy of Bettina Fung.
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Issue 12 – May 2019
Margaret Mellis, Red Flower (detail), 1958, oil on board, 39.4 × 39.1 cm. Collection of Museums Sheffield (VIS.4951).
Digital image courtesy of the estate of Margaret Mellis. Photo courtesy of Museums Sheffied (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, Drawings in Time (Engineers Carpet) (detail), 9 –12 February 2018 at 4.30 pm, series of 4 aerial photograph of site-specific drawing, archival gicleé print on hahnemuhle photo rag paper, 40.5 × 61 cm sheet size.
Digital image courtesy of Pioneer Art Residency (2018) Khushab, in collaboration with Canvas Gallery, Karachi.
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Issue 9 – August 2018
Jonathan Law, The Boy-Narcissus, excerpt 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, “Lt. Aertz, Gypsy and Dr Lejeune”, Elsie Knocker and two Belgian soldiers, Pervyse, 1917.
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
Pilgrim souvenirs and secular badges, from the collection of the British Museum, London.
Digital image courtesy of Trustees of the British Museum.
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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, Installation of New Lord Mayor, Fiona Woolf, Silent Ceremony, Guildhall, City of London, England, UK, 2013
Digital image courtesy of Martin Parr / © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos (LON156681)
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Issue 3 – July 2016
British Sculpture Abroad, 1945 – 2000
Simon Starling, Infestation Piece (Musselled Moore), 2006–8, steel and mussels, 162.6 × 76.2 × 76.2 cm
Digital image courtesy of the artist
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Issue 2 – April 2016
David Lewis, Gallery Shutters, 2016
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Issue 1 – November 2015
Patrick Staff, The Foundation (video still), 2015, Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London; Spike Island, Bristol; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Co-produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Spike Island, Bristol