Thesis working title: An Atlantic Frontier: Re-Situating Ireland and its Landscapes in the Early Modern Circum-Atlantic World
Supervised by Dr Esther Chadwick and Dr Kyle Leyden
My research focuses on land, landscapes, and geographies of early modern Ireland within the wider imperial Atlantic world, across a range of media, as reflections and constructions of transcultural colonial encounters, ideologies, identities, and processes. I am interested in resituating early modern Irish (art) history within a wider Atlantic context, while analysing visual culture as a means of conceiving and enacting colonial processes and conditions.
Education
2025 – present: PhD, Â鶹TVÍøÕ¾ of Art
2022 – 2023: MA, Â鶹TVÍøÕ¾ of Art – Special Option: Circum-Atlantic Visual Culture c. 1770 – 1830 (Distinction)
2018 – 2022: BA, Trinity College Dublin, History of Art and Architecture and English Literature (First Class)
Professional Experience
2025 – present: Print Room Assistant, Courtauld Gallery, London
2025: Assistant Curator of Ceramics and Glass, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2023 – 2025: Curatorial Assistant, Chitra Collection, London
Papers and talks
‘Turning outward to look inward: transcultural encounter and national identity in English delftware’, 2026 Association of Art History Conference, University of Cambridge
‘Acquiring Pugin: An Ongoing Project’ in Seeking Antiquity: A.W.N. Pugin and John Hardman Jr, Makers of Modern Gothic, V&A study day 2025
Publications
‘, V&A website, September, 2025.
‘Britannia triumphant, her ships sweep the sea: The performance of imperial-maritime British identity’,ÌýImmediations No. 21, 2024.
, ed. Charlotte Dew, Evelyn Earl, Grace Fannon, Gregory Parsons, The Goldsmiths’ Centre, 2024.
Research Interests
Early modern Irish and British art
The early modern Atlantic World
Transcultural exchange and global art history
Material culture: ceramics and glass
Decolonial art histories