Dr M.A. Michael FSA
BA (University of East Anglia, Norwich), PhD (Westfield College, University of London), FSA
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; mmichael@christies.com
An expert in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art, Michael read History of Art and Architecture at the University of East Anglia and gained his Doctorate at Westfield College, University of London. He lectured at St. Andrews University before joining Christie’s Education in 1987. He has written widely on Renaissance and Medieval art including the Arezzo frescoes of Piero della Francesca, the iconography of the apocalypse, and English illuminated manuscripts of the 13th and 14th century. His most recent book is The Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, Scala, 2004.
Read Michael's latest article from the Art Newspaper, Dec 2009 issue, page 43, here.
Research
Arts of the Middle Ages including: Illuminated Manuscripts, (especially in the British Isles and England), Stained Glass, Metalwork, Embroidery, Ivory, Panel and Wall Painting. Greek Art, Roman Art and Byzantine Art and their appropriation and survival in Islam and the West.
• Illuminated Manuscripts
• Stained Glass
• Panel Painting
• Metalwork
• Opus Anglicanum
Current research interests include investigation of the following:
• Hermeneutics of Style in the Middle Ages
• Theory of Transnationality and Medieval Europe
Teaching
Michael teaches Method and Theory of the History of Art in an MLitt seminar and lecture on the Arts of Europe Master’s and Diploma programmes at Christie’s Education in London. He hastaught seminars in the past on English Illuminated Manuscripts, Stained Glass, ‘International Gothic Art’, and Byzantine Art
Administration
• Joint Board of University of Glasgow and Christie’s Education
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
• Honorary Member of Staff History Of Art Depatment University of Glasgow
Publications
Books
The Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, London, Scala, 2004
Images in Light: Stained Glass 1200-1550, Sam Fogg, London, 2002
The Apocalypse and the Shape of things to Come, Edited by Frances Carey, London, 1999; joint curator and author of catalogue entries on Illuminated Apocalypse Manuscripts.
Piero Della Francesca: Eglise d'Arezzo, Editions Assouline, Paris, 1995 and (in English) Thames and Hudson, London, 1996.
Denis de Caires - Recent Paintings and Prints, Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Barbados, 1991.
Forthcoming
Contexts of Medieval Art: Images, Objects and Ideas. Tributes to Nigel Morgan, Harvey Miller Publishers, Editor and contributor with J. Luxford.
Articles in Journals and Books since 2000
The Paintings in the Church of the Π α ν α γ ι α Χ ρ υ σ ο σ π η λ ι ω τ ι σ σ α at Kato Devtera [Nicosia], Bulletin of British Byzantine Studies, 27, 2001, 110-112.
‘Jean le Bon’ and ‘Richard II’ in Portraiture in the Western Tradition 1300-1939, edited by Martin Bailey, London, the Folio Society, 2003.
‘Matthew Paris, Brother William, and St. Marcella: comments on the added leaf of the Apocalyptic Man in British Library MS Cotton Nero D. I*’ in Proceedings of the 2000 Harlaxton Symposium, Harlaxton Medieval Studies XII, edited by Nigel Morgan, Donnington, 2004, 239-249.
‘Introduction’ Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass 1200-1550, London, 2004, pp. 5-13.
‘The birth of non-authorship; interpreting the Lindisfarne Gospels St. Matthew and the Codex Amiatinus Ezra’ in Pen in Hand, Medieval Scribal Portraits, Colophos and Tools, Edited by Michael Gullick, Walkern, 2007, 174-185
‘Towards a Hermeneutics of the Manuscript: the Physical and Metaphysical Journeys of Paris BNF, MS Fr 571’ in Freedom of Movement in the Middle Ages, Edited by Pregrine Horden, Harlaxton Medieval Studies, XV, Donington, 2007, 305-317
'Seeing-in: the Macclesfield Psalter’ in The Cambridge Illuminations Conference Papers, edited by Stella Panayotova, London and Turnhout, 2007, 114 -128
'Urban Production and the Universities’, in The Cambridge History of the Book, vol. 2, 1200-1400, edited by Rodney Thompson, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 168-196
‘Planning for style: a preliminary reading of the De Lisle Psalter Virgin and Child’ Lucy Feeman Sandler: a Festschrift, edited by Katherine Smith, New York, 2008
Forthcoming
‘Transnationality the Wilton Diptych as Text’ in Tributes to Nigel Morgan, ed J. Luxford and M.A Michael, Harvey Miller
‘Re-Orienting the Westminster Retable’ in The Westminster Retable, ed. P. Binski and A. Massing, Cambridge, 2010
Conference Papers
2005 Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, The Cambridge Illuminations: The Macclesfield Psalter
2007 St. Louis, Manuscripta Conference, Pope Pius II Memorial Library: The Luttrell Psalter
2009 BAA Canterbury Cathedral Conference: Vere hortus noster deliciarum est Anglia: John of Thanet, the Madonna Master and a Fragment of English Medieval Embroidery
Forthcoming
2010 Re-orienting the West Minster Retable AAH Glasgow 2010
Michael serves concurrently as Honorary Fellow at the University of Glasgow.
Nixi Cura
Course Director, Arts of China
MA (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), PhD in progress (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; ncura@christies.edu
Nixi Cura graduated with a BA in East Asian Studies from Yale University, then specialised in Chinese painting and Buddhist art, with a minor in Romanesque art, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her current research interests include art of the Qing Dynasty, especially during the Qianlong reign (1736-1795), collecting and antiquarian practices during the Republican and Manchukuo periods, and contemporary Chinese visual culture. She has published a cultural biography of the Admonitions scroll during the Qianlong reign and is currently working on an edited volume for the University of California Press entitled Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists, and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture.
Research Interests
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911) painting and material culture
- Qing bannerman and Manchu cultural history
- The tomb of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-1795)
- Collecting and antiquarian practices during the Republican (1911-1949) and Manchukuo (1932-1945) periods
- Ceramics of the Republican period (1911-1949)
- Contemporary Chinese visual culture
Teaching
Arts of China (MLitt and Certificate programmes)
Administration
- Course Director, Arts of China, Christie's Education London
- Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Glasgow
- Secretary, Arts of China Consortium
Publications
Cura, N. and C. Yang (eds). Forthcoming. Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists, and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture, Berkeley, CA.
Cura, N. 2003. 'A "cultural biography" of the Admonitions scroll: the Qianlong reign, 1735-1795' in S. McCausland (ed), Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll: Ideals of Etiquette, Art & Empire from Early China, London.
Cura, N. 2003. 'High art, Luo art' in Luo Brothers: Welcome the World Famous Brand, Schenectady, NY.
Cura, N. (ed). 1996-present. Arts of China Consortium virtual library
Recent Conference Papers
Martial values in painting: Chinese bannerman painters at the Qing court, 2009. In 'War and Devastation in the Qing and Ottoman Empires', University of the Bosporus, Istanbul.
Locating Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940). 2009. In 'Collectors, Collections and Collecting the Arts of China: Histories and Challenges', Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida.
Luo Zhenyu, Li Fang, and Qing loyalist values. 2008. In 'Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture', School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Christie's Education London (organiser and presenter).
The tomb of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-1796). 2008. In 'Reigning beyond Death: Tombs and World Rulers', British Museum, London.
Colophon-paintings as paratexts. 2008. In 'Paratexts in Late Imperial China', Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Nixi serves concurrently as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and co-founded the Arts of China Consortium.
Lizzie Perrotte
Course Director, Modern and Contemporary Art
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; lperrotte@christies.com
Lizzie read History of Art at University College, London. She worked as a Higher Education Officer at the National Gallery and then worked for the Tate Gallery and at the Education Department at the Tate St Ives. Before coming to Christie’s Education in 1996, she also worked as Head of Education at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
Teaching
Lizzie leads a seminar in Method and Theory as Course Director on the MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Art-world Practice.
Publications
Articles:
‘The Primitive Within’, Jacob Epstein : Sculpture & Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1987
‘New Light on Epstein’s Early Career’, The Burlington Magazine, Dec 1988
‘Modern Old Masters: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, Van Gogh to Picasso: The Berggruen Collection at the National Gallery, London 1991
‘Impressionism in the Making’, Apollo, August 1991
Catalogues
‘The Primitive Within’, Jacob Epstein: Sculpture and Drawings (Exhibition Catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London)
Joumana Mourad (Exhibition Catalogue, Boukamel Contemporary Art, London)
Francis West (Exhibition Catalogue, Orleans House Gallery, London).
Other Media
Video Production -
Manet: The Hero of Modern Life, (National Gallery, London)
Sound Guides -
The Berggruen Collection at the (National Gallery, London)
Gary Hume at the ICA in collaboration with Jamie Murray Jackson, (ICA, London)
John Currin (ICA, London)
Dr Richard Plant
Course Director, Arts of Europe
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; rplant@christies.com
Richard studied English Literature at Cambridge before going on to do his MA and then PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art specialising in English Romanesque Architecture and the Holy Roman Empire. He has taught at the Courtauld Institute, University College and Queen Mary College. His publications include articles on the Romanesque fabric of Carlisle Cathedral, architectural developments in the Empire north of the Alps, Winchester Cathedral and architecture in Normandy and England 1050-1200.
Listen to Richard's appearances on BBC Radio 4:
Church Spires
BBC Radio 4's Making History consulted Richard who explained that the church spire was more of a technological innovation of the French gothic than a cultural or spiritual introduction. Click here for more information.
Winchester Cathedral
Listen to Richard's comments on the background to the Norman Cathedral, how in 1070 a Norman Bishop replaced the Saxon one and the existing Saxon Cathedral was demolished to make way for a building that was to be the biggest in Europe for over 1,000 years. Click here for more information.
Research Interests
European Architecture of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Urbanism in Medieval Europe
Architectural iconography
Teaching
Architecture of the ancient world
Medieval Architecture, metalwork and painting
Early Renaissance Architecture
Cataloguing Skills
Theory and Methodology
Administration
Member of the committee of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
Member of Council and Publicity Officer for the British Archaeological Association
Co-organiser of the Conference 'Romanesque and the Past: Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe', to be held in London, April 2010
Publications
• ‘Romanesque and Early Gothic Coventry Cathedral’ British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, Medieval Art and Architecture in Coventry (in press)
• ‘Durham Cathedral’ in T. Ayers (ed), The History of British Art 600-1500, London, 2008
• ‘Gundulf’s Cathedral’ British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, Medieval Art and Architecture at Rochester Cathedral, Leeds, 2006
• ‘The Romanesque Fabric of Carlisle Cathedral’, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions, Medieval Art and Architecture at Carlisle Cathedral Leeds, 2004
• ‘Architectural Developments In The Empire North Of The Alps: The Patronage of the Imperial Court’ in N. Hiscock (ed), The White Mantle of Churches, Turnhout, 2003
• ‘Architecture in Normandy and England, 1050-1200’ in C. Harper Bill (ed), The Companion to Anglo-Norman Studies, Woodbridge, 2003
• ‘La cathédrale de Winchester: ses sources et son influence’, in M.Meade, W. Szambien and S Talenti (eds), L’architecture normande en Europe: identités et échanges Marseille, 2002
• ‘English Romanesque and the Empire’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 24 2002
Conference Papers
2010 Romanesque East Anglia and the Empire, East Anglia and its North Sea World, University of East Anglia
2010 Lindisfarne Priory British Archaeological Association Summer Conference, Newcastle
2007 Romanesque and Early Gothic Coventry Cathedral, British Archaeological Association Summer Conference, Coventry
2007 Sacred Space in the Medieval German City, Urban Mentalities: Becoming a Town-Dweller, University of East Anglia
2006 Symbolism of Churches in Town Planning, Signs and Symbols, Harlaxton Conference
2003 English Romanesque Architecture and Flanders, France/Angleterre: les relations artistiques de la Conquête à la Renaissance, University of Paris I
2003 Romanesque Architecture in Christina’s World, Christina of Markyate and the St Albans Psalter, St Albans
2003 Bishops’ Chapels in England and Germany, British Archaeological Association Summer Conference, Mainz
Andrew Spira
Course Director, Art, Style and Design
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; aspira@christies.com
Andrew graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art before completing a MA degree in Museum and Gallery Management at City University, London. He worked at the Temple Gallery, London (specialist in Byzantine and Russian icons), and as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum where he specialised in 18th century British Art and Design, and Metalwork. He also specialises in Russian art, publishing The Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition in 2008. For 20 years he has been taking tours to cultural sites in western Europe, Russia, Armenia and Georgia. He has been Course Director at Christie’s Education since 2004. He is currently working on a book on personal identity and the way it is reflected in the material culture of western Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day.
His latest book is on the modern Russian icon: The Avant-Garde Icon, Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition (October 2008). To purchase a copy online, please click here.
To read a review of The Avant-Garde Icon, Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition, that was written by Christina Lodder and featured in the Burlington Magazine, Vol. CLI No. 1281 Dec 2009 issue, please click here.
Research Interests
• Interiors and Lifestyles, 15th-21st Century
• Material Culture and Personal Identity
• Russian Art
Teaching
Undregraduate and p[ostgraducate courses in Art, Style and Design (Deorative and Fine Arts) including:
• Lectures on furniture, silver, design history
• Art and objects, and their historical contexts
• Art and objects in a contemporary professional context (curating, dealing, marketing, legislating)
• ‘Object-based’ seminars and workshops: expertise and cataloguing
• Tutorials and Thesis supervision
Selected Publications
The Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition, Lund Humphries, September 2008
Christianity: The Complete Guide, ed. John Bowden, Continuum, 2005
'The Influence of Russian Icons on Kasimir Malevich', in Kresy (Polish journal), Warsaw, 2001
1000 Symbols, Thames & Hudson, 2002
'Ars Sacra' in The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Art, ed. Martin Kemp, Oxford U. P., 2000
‘Ecclesiastical Pewter’ in Pewter at the Victoria & Albert Museum, V&A Publications, 1999
‘Ceremonial Silver’ in Silver, (ed. Philippa Glanville), V&A Publications, London, 1996
Early Christian and Byzantine Art, (ed. R.C.C. Temple), London, 1990
Icons: A Sacred Art, (ed. R.C.C.Temple), London, 1989
Patrick Bade
Senior Lecturer/Tutor
MA (Courtauld Institute)
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; pbade@christies.com
Read History of Art at UCL and completed his MA at the Courtauld Institute in 1974. Apart from his classic work, the Femme Fatale: Images of Evil and Fascinating Women (1978), he has written books on Renoir, Degas, Ingres, Courbet, Toulouse Lautrec, Beardsley, Burne-Jones, Monet, Mucha and Tamara de Lempicka. A major collector of early opera recordings, he also runs the Opera Course at Christie’s Education.
Research Interests
19th Century painting
Performing arts
Current research project: Music in World War II
Teaching
Fine Arts 1600-1950
19th and 20th century decorative arts
Administration
Short courses committee
Publications
Books
1978 Femme Fatale: Images of Evil and Fascinating Women. Ash and Grant
1985 Icons of corruption. Degeneration; the Dark side of Progress. Columbia University Press
1989 Painting and Sculpture in England, The English Tourist Board
1989 Renoir, Studio Editions
1989 Degas, Studio Editions
1998 Puccini’s Manon Lescaut Glyndebourne Opera Bites
1998-2002 titles in the Parkstone “Reveries” series
Ingres
Courbet
Degas
Toulouse-Lautrec
Beardsley
Renoir
Rops
Burne-Jones
2003 Monet and the Impressionists, Fog City Press
2004 Mucha, Parkstone Press
2005 Tamara de Lempicka, Parkstone Press
Articles
1993 Hogarth, Strauss and Hofmannsthal, The Art Quaterly
1995 Musical Impressions from Manet to Gauguin, Royal Academy of Arts
2009 Degas, Intimität und Pose. Bühne – Bordell – Boudoir, Hamburg Kunsthalle Exhibition Catalogue
Dr. Cecily Hennessy
Lecturer/Tutor
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; chennessy@christies.com
Dr Cecily Hennessy studied for her BA and MA in History of Art at the University of Washington in Seattle and gained a PhD in Byzantine art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2001. She has taught at universities in the USA and the UK and was Head of Short Courses and Adult Learning at the Courtauld Institute before joining Christie’s Education as a lecturer in 2006. Her book Images of Children in Byzantium was published by Ashgate in 2008. She has also published articles on late Byzantine manuscripts and a section on the topography of Constantinople in The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (2008).
Research Interests
Representation of children in Byzantine art
Middle and late Byzantine manuscript illumination
Late Byzantine wall painting
Art and architecture of Constantinople
Teaching
Lectures in ancient, early Christian, Byzantine and Renaissance art with an emphasis on early Christian and Byzantine
Undergraduate seminar, Art and Text
Graduate diploma seminar, Sources in Context
Master’s seminar, Culture and Ideology
Administration
Short courses committee
Alumni committee
Publications
Books
Images of Children in Byzantium, Ashgate, 2008
Articles
‘The Stepmum and the Servant: The stepson and the Sacred Vessel in the Illustrated Homilies of John Kokkinobaphos’, Proceedings of SPBS Symposium, March 2009, Ashgate, 2010
‘Young people in Byzantium, Blackwell Companion to Byzantium, ed. L. James, Blackwell, forthcoming 2009
‘The Lincoln College Typikon: The Influences of Church and Family’, Under the Influence: The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts, ed. A. Bovey, Brepols, 2008
‘The Topography of Constantinople’, Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, ed. E. Jeffreys, with R. Cormack and J. Haldon, Oxford University Press, 2008
The Early Christian and Byzantine entries, 30,000 years of art, Phaidon, 2008
‘A Child Bride and her Representation in the Vatican Epithalamion, cod. gr. 1851’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 30 (2006), 115-150
‘Children on Display’, Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London 21-26 August, 2006, ed. F.K. Haarer and E. Jeffreys with J. Gilliland, Ashgate, 2006, vol. III, 128
‘Children as Iconic Images in S. Demetrios, Thessaloniki’, Icon and Word: The Power of Images in Byzantium, eds. A. Eastmond and L. James, Ashgate, 2003
‘A Child Bride and Her Representation in Vatican, cod. gr. 1851’, Byzantine Studies Conference: Abstracts of Papers, Notre Dame 2001
Conference Papers
March 2010: ‘The Chapel of Saint Jacob at the Church of the Theotokos Chalkoprateia in Istanbul’: Icaane Conference, London
March 2009: ‘The Stepmum and the Servant: The stepson and the Sacred Vessel’: Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium, Courtauld Institute of Art
March 2009: ‘Children and the Young at the Byzantine Court: Pawns or Protagonists?’: New research on medieval childhood: an interdisciplinary workshop, University of Sheffield
May 2008: ‘The Virgin and child in the apse of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul’, Symposium on the composition of Byzantine mosaics, British Museum (for the Leverhulme Network of the Composition of Byzantine Mosaic Glass Tesserae)
April 2006: ‘The Representation of Children in Byzantium’: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium, Washington, D.C.
February 2006: ‘Toys for Boys’: Sussex University Research Seminar
July 2005: ‘Children in Byzantine Art’: International Medieval Congress, Leeds University
February 2004: ‘Girls at Church and Court’ in session ‘Female Relations: Images of Women and Girls in Old and New Rome’ (Joint Chair of Session): College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle
June 2003: ‘The Lincoln College Typikon: The Influences of Church and Family’: 'Under the Influence’ The Concept of Influence and the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts, Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts, Courtauld Institute of Art
March 2003: ‘Quality Time at the Dinner Table: Calm or Calamity?’: Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Spring Symposium, Birmingham
November 2002: ‘The Imagery of Youthful Saints in Byzantium’: Byzantium in Belfast, AHRB Centre for Cultural History, Queen’s University, Belfast
November 2002: ‘Politics and Girlhood in Byzantium’: Sussex University Research Seminar
May 2002: ‘Girlhood to Womanhood in Byzantium’: Work in Progress Seminar, Courtauld Institute of Art
April 2002: ‘Christ’s Infancy at S. Maria Maggiore, Rome’: Canadian Conference of Medieval Historians, Herstmonceux Castle
January 2002: ‘Visibility/Invisibility: Young Male Byzantine Martyrs’: Colloquium: Seeing Gender, Kings College, London
November 2001: ‘A Child Bride and Her Representation in Vatican, cod. gr. 1851’: Byzantine Studies Conference, Notre Dame
February 2001: ‘Children and the Family in Byzantium’: Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Courtauld Institute of Art
February 2000: ‘Imperial Children in Byzantium: Public and Private Identities’: 5th Annual Medieval Research Colloquium, Courtauld Institute of Art
Awards
Courtauld Institute of Art Research Grant, 2003-4
Arts and Humanities Research Board Studentship, 1998-2001
SPBS Fieldwork and Research Grant, 2001, 2000
University of London Central Research Fund Grant, 2000, 1999
University of Washington, School of Art Scholarships, 1993-1997
University Bookstore Scholarship, 1994-1995
Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship, 1993-1994
Dr Catherine James
Lecturer/Tutor
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; cejames@christies.com
Catherine received her BA Hons in English and German at UEA and then went on to study for a BSc in Music at City University (and Guildhall School of Music). She gained her doctorate at the London Consortium (Tate, ICA and AA), focusing on the theme of gravity in art. She has worked throughout BBC Network Radio for many years and been an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts since 1999. She has been Book Reviews Editor for Contemporary magazine since 2005.
Research
Currently working on the theme of Gravity in Art. Her recent paper for the international conference, Dwelling, Walking, Falling at the University of Manchester (13th-14th February 2009) is due to be published in the online journal, Papers of Surrealism.
Teaching
Lectures on the MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Art-world Practice
Administration
Book Reviews Editor, Contemporary magazine, since 2005
Publications
‘Swings & Roundabouts’, (Ed. N. Pearlman) Arcade, Issue 2, Lawrence & Wishart, 2001
Cicada, exhibition catalogue, 2007
Public Lectures and Conferences
Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester, Subversive Spaces, Paper: ‘Fantasy and Vertigo’
Tate Modern Public Programmes: Frieda Kahlo
Tate Modern Teacher’s Day: New Ideas in Contemporary Art
London Jewish Cultural Centre: Arts & Crafts
Dr. Marika Leino
Lecturer/Tutor
PhD (Warburg Institute, Italian Renaissance Plaquettes in Context)
MA (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; mleino@christies.com
Marika studied art history at Christie’s Education and the Courtauld Institute (MA) and gained a PhD from the Warburg Institute. She was a Henry Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History of Art Department at the University of Oxford and has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes. She is currently working on a book ‘Fashion Accessories to Collectors’ Curiosities: The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes’ (Peter Lang, forthcoming, 2010). She co-edited Depth of Field: Relief Sculpture in Renaissance Italy (Peter Lang, 2007) and has published on various aspects of renaissance relief sculpture.
Research Interests
• Italian Early Modern sculpture
• The classical tradition
• The History of Collecting
• Current research project: Real or Imagined?: Art objects in Pre-Modern Portraiture and the Construction of Status
Teaching
• 15th and 16th Century Italy
• Sculpture, Renaissance to Neoclassicism
• The Grand Tour
• Patronage and subject matter
Administration
• Chair of the AAH Museums and Exhibitions Members’ Group
• Co-convenor and co-organiser of the M&E Group’s session ‘Objects, Art History and Display’, at the AAH conference Glasgow 2010
• Christie’s Education Short Course committee
• Co-organised (with Greg Sullivan, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) an international symposium ‘The Place of Sculpture’ held at the History of Art Department, Oxford, on 27 March 2009. Funded by the Henry Moore Institute, John Fell Foundation (Oxford University) and the Zilkha Fund (Lincoln College).
Publications
Edited Volumes and Books
Fashion Accessories to Collectors’ Curiosities – the Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes (working title), under contract with Peter Lang, Oxford (forthcoming - 2010)
Depth of Field: Relief Sculpture in Renaissance Italy, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2007, co-editor with Donal Cooper, University of Warwick
Articles, Essays and Catalogue Contributions
‘The production, collection and display of plaquette reliefs in Renaissance Italy’, in Depth of Field: Relief Sculpture in Renaissance Italy, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2007
‘Italian Renaissance plaquettes and Lombard architectural monuments’, Arte Lombarda, no. 146, 147, 148, 2006, 1-3
‘Myth and Astronomy in the Frescoes at Sant’Abbondio in Cremona’, (with Charles Burnett), the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXVI, 2003 (out 2005)
Assisted with section on Italian plaquettes for the Ashmolean Museum ‘Medieval and Early Modern Sculpture’ catalogue (with Jeremy Warren) (forthcoming - 2011)
Reviews
Review for Renaissance Studies, Volume 23 Issue 5 (November 2009), of the exhibition and catalogue ‘Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian’, National Gallery, London
Review for the Sculpture Journal, vol. 17.2, 2008, of Images en Relief: La Collection de Plaquettes du Musée National de la Renaissance by Bertrand Bergbauer and Catherine Chédeau, Paris 2006
Review for Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 19, no. 1, 2007, Lorenzo de Medici: Collector and Antiquarian, by Laurie Fusco and Gino Corti, Cambridge, 2006
Review for Art History, 29:1, 2006, of Art of the Renaissance Bronze 1500-1650. The Robert H. Smith Collection by Anthony Radcliffe and Nicholas Penny, London, 2004
Review for the Burlington Magazine, vol. CXLVIII, September 2006, of the exhibition and catalogue ‘From Vulcan’s Forge: Bronzes from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1450-1800’
Review for the Sculpture Journal, vol. XIV, 2005, of the exhibition ‘Depth of Field: the place of relief in the time of Donatello’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Review for Renaissance Studies, vol. 19, no. 4, September 2005, of the exhibition ‘Depth of Field: the place of relief in the time of Donatello’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Conference Papers
Revealing Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Makers and Markets 1100-1600, International Conference, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, February 2010 – ‘Agents of diffusion: the role of Italian Renaissance plaquettes in disseminating designs’
Robert H. Smith Renaissance Sculpture in Context Research Seminar, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, May 2009 – ‘Antique influences and all’antica creations – Italian Renaissance plaquettes in context’. The day included a two-hour seminar and handling session for MA students
Core Research Seminar in the History of Art, History of Art Department, University of Oxford, May 2009 – ‘The Relationship between Italian Renaissance plaquettes and Lombard architectural monuments’
Helsinki Renaissance Conference, Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2007 – ‘A physician and his museo: the diverse curiosità of Giacomo Francesco Arpino (1607-1684)’
Collecting and Display (100BC to AD1700) seminar, IHR, University of London, 2006 – ‘The Gabinetto of Giacomo Francesco Arpino (1607-1684)’
Study Day on ‘Treasures of the Italian Renaissance in the Wallace Collection’, Wallace Collection, London, 2006 – ‘Italian Renaissance Plaquettes and their Uses: From Personal Adornment to Collectors’ Curiosities’
Renaissance Seminar, Modern History Faculty, University of Oxford, 2006 – ‘A physician and his museo: the diverse curiosità of Giacomo Francesco Arpino (1607-1684)’
Core Research Seminar in the History of Art, History of Art Department, University of Oxford, 2006 – ‘The status and functions of Italian Plaquettes’
Seminar on the History of Collecting, Wallace Collection, London, 2005 – ‘The Gabinetto of Giacomo Francesco Arpino (1607-1684)’
University of Oxford /Ashmolean Museum/Brookes Art History Seminar, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2005 – ‘Italian Renaissance Plaquettes: the origins and functions of the small relief in the 15th and 16th centuries’
‘Making, selling, seeing: The production and experience of relief in the Renaissance’, International Conference, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2005 – ‘Ownership, display and production of small reliefs in the 15th and early 16th centuries’
Research Seminar, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2003 – ‘Italian Renaissance Plaquettes – forms and functions’
Awards
Henry Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Oxford, 2005 – 2008
Francis Haskell Memorial Fund scholarship (for archival research in Turin, Italy), 2005
Warburg Institute, Research Travel Fund, 2002 and 2003
Suomalainen Konkordia-liitto (a Finnish charitable foundation), grant for undertaking full-time research, 2001
Rebecca Lyons
Lecturer/Tutor
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; rlyons@christies.com
Rebecca studied French and German at Oxford before going on to take her MA in 19th century art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She was an Education Officer at the National Gallery, London and has contributed to a range of publications on the History of Art. She has made several films for the National Gallery and consulted on two BBC documentaries and with the ENO, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Concordia Early Music Group and Complicité theatre.
Teaching
Rebecca teaches on the Art, Style and Design MLitt in History of Art and Art-world Practice
Administration
She is Director of a Charitable Trust
Publications
Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained, Chapter on Genre Painting, Mitchell Beazley 2000
Catalogues
St George and the Dragon, curated exhibition and wrote exhibition catalogue for the National Gallery, 1999
Families Co-curated exhibition and co-wrote exhibition catalogue for the National Gallery, 2001
Other Media
St George and the Dragon (National Gallery, London) DVD
Vermeer and the Delft School (National Gallery, London) DVD
Aelbert Cuyp (National Gallery, London) DVD
Dutch Portraits in the Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals (National Glallery, London) DVD(Selected for the Montreal International Art Film Festival 2008)
Love (National Gallery, London) DVD
BBC Painting the Weather (Website)
Mike Ricketts
Senior Lecturer
B.A. (Hons) History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London
Ph.D. (ongoing), Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; mricketts@christies.com
Mike read History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and also graduated in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design where he is currently a PhD candidate working on contemporary art and urbanism. He is an artist and writer. Exhibitions have included 'Building, Dwelling, Thinking', Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, and ‘Reverse Consultation (Old New Town)’, Harlow, Essex, 2008. He has contributed articles and artists' projects to journals including Photo Works, Camera Austria, and Inventory.
Research Interests
Contemporary art and urban spatial politics
• Site-oriented and socially-engaged art practice
• Public space
• conceptualism and the city
Teaching
Master’s, Post Graduate Diploma courses in Modern & Contemporary Art, including:
• Lectures on surrealism, conceptual art, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco
• Master’s critical art history seminar ‘Culture & Ideology’
• Contemporary art and curating seminars and workshops
• ‘Object-based’ seminars and workshops
• Tutorials and Master’s Thesis supervision
Administration
Learning Resources Committee
Selected Recent Exhibitions
2009 ‘Subject:Matter’, Cass Sculpture, Goodwood, Sussex
2009 ‘Ouagadougou Rendez-vous’, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
2008 ‘Reverse Consultation (Old New Town)’, Art and the New Town, Harlow, Essex
2008 ‘Building, Dwelling, Thinking’, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
2007 ‘Someone Else’s House’, 6 Hillsleigh Rd, London
2006 'Picnic Area (Dumb Interior)', Scenery, ROOM, Bristol
Selected Publications
2006 ‘Documentary at the End of History’, Photoworks, Issue 6 (co-authored with Hope Kingsley)
2002 ‘Subplot’, Subplot, Exh. Cat. Mafuji Gallery, London
2002 ‘Anne Hardy’, Camera Austria, Issue 77
2001 ‘Abstraction’, Understanding Paintings, ed. A. Sturgis, publ. Mitchell Beazley (Contributing Editor)
1997 'Harlow', Inventory, Vol. 1, No. 2
Conference Papers
2009 ‘Ali G, Amma, Asbestos: Towards a New Glossary for Crystal Palace Park’, Association of Art Historians
2009 Conference: Intersections, Manchester Metropolitan University
John Slyce
Lecturer/Tutor
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351
Read modern history and politics at the University of Florida, languages and history at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and at Jagiellonian in Krakow, Poland and history and critical theory at the University of Michigan.
Research Interests
He is the author of numerous catalogue essays and monographs on the work of contemporary artists and contributes articles, reviews and interviews to the major art magazines.
Teaching
John Teaches on the MLitt in Modern and Contemporary Art-world Practice and teaches a seminar in Method and Theory
Publications
Books
Parallel Lines: a primer on Artlab, in ISBN 0-9540377-1-5, London: Praline, 2003
Jemima Stehli: A Writer’s Notes, in Jemima Stehli, Birmingham: ARTicle Press, 2002
Nick Waplington: Truth or Consequences, London: Phaidon, 2001
The americans. new art, London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2001
10-16, or life under the conditions of art, focus in Gillian Wearing, London: Phaidon, Contemporary Artists Series, 1999
Patrick Hughes: Perverspective, London: momentum, 1998 (new edition printed August 2005)
Catalogues
The Photography Prize 1996-2006: A First Decade Account, catalogue essay for the 2006 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, The Photographers’ Gallery, February 2006
Welcome to the Occupation: Peter Kennard and the allegorical emblem, Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow, October 2004
Temporary Monumental: visibility, labour, value, and procedue in the projects of Michael Landy, Tate Publishing, August 2004
School is a Factory, Royal College of Art, School of Fine Art Degree Show catalogue June 2004, Forward essay
We Prefer to Resist, Artlab, Britania Works, The Breeder and British Council, Athens, Greece, April 2004
Markus Muntean/Adi Rosenblum: Precision Ambiguity, Sao Paolo Biennale, April 2004
Darren Almond, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2004
Jemima Stehli: Caught Looking, Sidewinder, various venues in India, January, 2002
Artlab: Squaring the Circle, GYMNASION, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Austria, July, 2001
Brian Griffiths, Civic past and futurama, ICA Beck's Futures 2, London, March 2001
Carey Young, Nothing Ventured, Fig-1 catalogue, London 2001
'Look Out! Art-Society-Politics', curated by Peter Kennard, UK travelling Aug 2000-Mar 2001
Anthony Earnshaw, 1978-2000: The Boxed Earnshaw, Flowers East, London July 2000
Gillian Wearing, catalogue essay, Biennale of Sydney, May-July 2000
Sarah Dobai, Scenarios nurtured in the everyday: The photographs, film, and video of Sarah Dobai, Centro de Fotografía, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, October 2000
Thérèse Oulton, Stillness Follows, Marlborough Gallery, London, April 2000
David Shrigley, ICA Beck's Futures 1, London, March 2000
Adam Chodzko, re: Looking for Adam Chodzko in the Lost and Found, 'Let's Get Lost'
curated by Jerome Sans, Central Saint Martins, London, 2000
Sarah Jones, On Time, Narration, and Performative Realism; The Photographs of Sarah Jones, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Austria December 1999
Susan Baker 1968-1982, Escaping the traps of art and life with Susan Baker, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts, USA 1998
Gillian Wearing, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, British Council Publications, 1998
Sarah Sze, The Imagined Communities of Sarah Sze, ICA, London, 1998
Dr. Minna Törmä
Lecturer/Tutor
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; mtorma@christies.com
Minna studied art history and theatre history at University of Helsinki (Institute for Art Research) and received her Ph.D. in 2002 with a thesis on Northern Song landscape handscrolls: Landscape Experience as Visual Narrative. She complemented her studies with courses on Chinese art at University of California, Berkeley (1993-1994) and School of Oriental and African Studies, London (1998). She is also Adjunct Professor of Art History at University of Helsinki and her current project focuses on Osvald Siren and the scholarship and collecting of East Asian art. Visit Minna's blog here.
Research Interests
- Chinese paintings from Six Dynasties (4th c. CE) to contemporary
- Landscape Art (in general)
- Song dynasty culture
- Chinese architecture and gardens (including interiors and furniture)
- Historiography of Chinese art, history of collecting
- East-West relationships
Current research focuses on Osvald Siren (1879-1966) and his scholarship on China, his collecting of Chinese art and travels in East Asia, to be completed in 2010. (Part of the research project “A Portrait of Art History: Critical Approaches to Finnish Art History and Art Historians”, University of Helsinki, funded by Academy of Finland)
Future research (2011) looks into the theme of “The Ten Kings of Purgatory” and their visual representations in the Qing dynasty.
PhD Supervision
Minna Valjakka, ”Many faces of Mao Zedong”, Institute for Art Research, Art History, University of Helsinki
Teaching
“Arts of China”, Lecturer/Tutor, Christie’s Education
Publications
Books
(Forthcoming): - New Horizons in East Asia: Osvald Siren’s Encounter with Chinese Art
- Landscape Experience as Visual Narrative: Northern Song Dynasty Landscape Handscrolls in the Li Cheng – Yan Wengui Tradition. Humaniora 318. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2002.
- Kirja teestä. Translation of Kakuzo Okakura’s Book of Tea with an introduction. Helsinki: Taide, 2000.
- Metsien ja virtojen ylevä viesti. Guo Xin (n. 1001 - n. 1090) ajatuksia maisemamaalauksesta. Translations from Chinese Linquan gaozhi [”The Lofty Message of Forests and Streams”] with an introduction and commentary. Helsinki: Taide, 1999.
Articles (selection of recent ones)
”Tour around the World of Art: An Art Historical Excursion to Berlin in 1919”, in Towards a Science of Art History: J.J. Tikkanen and Art Historical Scholarship in Europe, ed. by Johanna Vakkari. Art Historical Studies 38. Helsinki, 2009.
”Osvald Sirén: Tracing His Path in Art History”, in Zurich Studies in the History of Art, Georges Bloch Annual, vol. 13/14, ed. by Wolfgang F. Kersten ja R. Daniel Schneiter, 333-339. Zürich, 2009.
”Enchanted by Lohans in Boston: Tales of Osvald Sirén’s Encounter with Chinese Art” (in English and in Chinese), in The First China Contemporary Art Forum, Collection of Essays, vol. 1, 55-67. Beijing, 2009.
The Art Seminar: Landscape Theory. James Elkins, Racheal DeLue, Minna Törmä et al., 87-156. London: Routledge, 2008. (This is the publication born from the roundtable discussion held in Ballyvaughn, Ireland in 2006, my contribution is part of the transcript of the discussion which was taped and edited.)
”Decade of Change: 1920’s in the Life of Osvald Sirén”, in The Shaping of Art History in Finland, ed. by Renja Suominen-Kokkonen, 157-168. Art Historical Studies 36. Helsinki: The Society of Art History, 2007.
”Looking at Chinese Landscape Painting: Problems of Spatial Representation”, in Looking at Other Cultures: Works of Art as Icons of Memory, ed. by Anja Kervanto-Nevanlinna, 119-135. Art Historical Studies 22. Helsinki: The Society of Art History, 1999.
Conference Papers
Forthcoming 2010: February - College Art Association, Chicago: ”Playing All the Roles: Osvald Sirén as Curator, Collector, Dealer and Art Historian”
2009: Nordic conference of art historians, Jyväskylä, Finland: ”Auspicious Furnishings for the Dream Environment”
The First China Contemporary Art Forum, International Conference on Art Theory and Criticism, Beijing, invited speaker: ”Changing Perceptions of Chinese Art”
2007: Conference Towards a Science of Art History: J.J. Tikkanen and Art Historical Scholarship in Europe, Helsinki: ”In the Netherworld: Osvald Sirén’s Role in the Art Market” Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Boston: ”Enchanted by Lohans in Boston: A Turning Point in Osvald Sirén’s Career”
2006: Landscape Theory - roundtable, Ballyvaughan, Ireland: invited discussant
2005: Seminar of the the History of Art Historical Research in Finland, Helsinki: ”Osvald Sirén, analysis of style and the canon of Chinese painting.”
2003: Nordic conference of art historians, Aarhus, Denmark: "Ancient objects in a modern setting: The Didrichsen Art Museum."
2001: Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago: "Format, experience, and narrative structure in early Northern Song landscape painting."
Awards
University of Helsinki, The prize for teaching technology, honorary prize, 2002 ”Software for the organization and presentation of visual material: Easel” group: Ph.D. Minna Törmä, Phil.lic. Johanna Vakkari and photographer Tuomo Lehtinen
Natasha Held
Learning Resources Manager
Address for Correspondence: Christie's Education, 153 Great Titchfield Street, London W1W 5BD, UK
Tel. +44 (0)207 665 4350; Fax. +44 (0)207 665 4351; nheld@christies.com
Natasha Held is covering Christine Milne’s maternity leave until May 2010. Natasha has a breadth of experience working in some of London’s major art libraries, including the National Art Library (V&A Museum), Royal Academy of Arts, National Portrait Gallery, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London). She has also managed an archive project at the National Art Collections Fund and most recently worked as Business Manager for ARLIS/UK & Ireland (Arts Libraries Society).
Natasha has a BA in Art History & Theory from Essex University and PgDips in Museum Studies (Leicester University) and Library & Information Studies (University College London).