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
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My doctoral research considers depictions of the land, landscapes, and geographies of early modern Ireland, as reflections and constructions of transcultural colonial encounters, ideologies, identities, and processes. Particularly, I focus on cartography produced of Ireland in the ‘long’ seventeenth century and the intensifying early modern culture of mapping in which Ireland can be situated. My research aims to challenge a lingering narrative of exceptionalism through which Irish art history has historically been told, and to reconsider the global networks in which Ireland was positioned; looking both eastward toward Europe, and westward toward the Atlantic world.
Education
2025 – present: PhD, Courtauld Institute of Art
2022 – 2023: MA, Courtauld Institute 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
‘Performing Britain in John Speed’s The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine‘ inÌýImagining Britain: Postgraduate and Early Career Research in British and Irish Art, symposium at 91Ó°ÊÓ Institute of Art supported by The Manton Centre for British Art, 2026
‘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