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 25 – December 2023
Charwei Tsai, Ancient Desires, 2023, ceramic offering vessels, dimensions variable, commissioned by Kettle's Yard and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, during a residency at Wysing Arts Centre. Made with the support of artists Lawrence Epps and Isobel Meredith-Hardy at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, and Marie Saint Bris, Paris.
Digital image courtesy of Charwei Tsai / Photo: Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner.
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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
Jacqueline Bishop, The Market Woman's Story – 11, 2022, vitrified porcelain, 23.5 × 30 cm. Fabricated by Emma Price.
Digital image courtesy of Jacqueline Bishop / Photograph by Jenny Harper (all rights reserved).
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Issue 22 – April 2022
Thames River Works
Lizzie Malcolm | Rectangle, Visualisation of the River Thames, 2022.
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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, Stonehenge Under Snow (recto), 1947, printed later, 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, Server Farms Pines, 2019.
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
Nicholas Tee Performing "Yellow Peril" at Manchester Art Gallery, 6 March 2019.
Digital image courtesy of Nicholas Tee.
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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, Unter den Linden, 2010, horticultural intervention, public art project, terminalia arjuna seeds (sterilized) yellow paint.
Digital image courtesy of David Alesworth.
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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, “Winkie Spaight”, Irene “Winkie” Gartside-Spaight in No Man's Land, ca.1916.
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
Gerard Byrne, 1984 and Beyond (production still), 2005–07, part of a multimedia installation featuring video, photography and text
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
Mikhail Karikis, Children of Unquiet (video still), 2013–14
Digital image courtesy of the artist