Flora Clark

PhD Student

Working thesis title: Painted with glass and fire: Limoges enamelling from the local to the global, c. 1470-1530

Supervisor: Professor Susie NashÌý

Advisor: Dr Robert Brennan

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Education

2025-present: PhD History of Art, The Âé¶¹TVÍøÕ¾ of Art

2021-2022: MA History of Art (Distinction), The Âé¶¹TVÍøÕ¾ of Art (Special option: Reinterpreting the Object: Late Medieval and Renaissance Art in Northern Europe, c.1360-1520)

2017-2020: BA History (First Class), The University of Oxford

Professional Experience

2026-present: Collection Assistant, The Wyvern Research Institute, London

2025-2026: Research Assistant: The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, V&A, London

2024-2025: IMAF Project Curator: Netherlandish Drawings, The British Museum, London

2023: Collection and Curation Intern, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

2023: Visiting Researcher, The Belgian Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Brussels

2021-2022: Research Associate (Painting Pairs), The Âé¶¹TVÍøÕ¾ of Art, London

Publications

Contributor to: Olenka Horbatsch and Charlotte Wytema, Early Netherlandish Drawings, 1400-1600 (British Museum Press, 2026)

Papers and Talks

‘Defining the Edge: Picture Frames at the Barber Institute’, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham (2023)

‘Interthreaded histories: Late medieval embroidery between England and Brabant’, The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Belgium and Fondation Périer D’Ieteren, Brussels (2023)

‘A View of Jamaica’, Painting Pairs 2021-22: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History, The Courtauld Research Forum, London (2022)

Grants and Awards

CHASE/AHRC Doctoral Studentship (2025)

Southern Netherlandish Art Program Summer School (2025)

Caroline Kellett FHS Prize in History, Wadham College (2020)

 

 

 

Research Interests

Northern European art c. 1350-1550

Artistic exchange and transfer between media (especially drawing, painting, metalwork)

Medievalisms and remaking the medieval past

Practice-based research

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