Lithography and Britain 1900-1920
Supervised by Tom Young
Advised by David Peters Corbett
Exploring the initiatives of the Senefelder Club for the Advancement of Artistic Lithography and its members, my doctoral dissertation traces the development of the revival of artistic lithography from the restructuring of lithographic teaching at the turn of the century through the revival’s zenith during the First World War.
The paper seeks to reconstruct artistic and social networks and a lithographic rhetoric integral to the revival’s success, linking the revival to the period’s wider reform movements and collective experiences.
Ultimately, the study demonstrates lithography as an under-researched yet fruitful lens to view early 20th century Britain’s cultural landscape.
Education:
2021-2022: MA, History of Art (Distinction); The Courtauld Institute of Art; Thesis: “A New Calligraphy of War:” Authenticity and Autography in Paul Nash’s World War One Lithographs
2016-2020: BA, Art History with a minor in Museum Studies (Magna Cum Laude); Honors Thesis: A Modern Dance with Death: Percy Delf Smith’s Etchings and the Aesthetic of Direct Experience
Awards and Research Grants:
Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2026
D.F. McKenzie New Scholar, Bibliographic Society of America, 2026
Research England Grant, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2024
Conferences and Publications:
Conference co-organiser: Imagining Britain: Postgraduate and Early Career Research in British and Irish Art, 9 June, 2026, Courtauld Institute of Art
Presenter: ‘Between Tradition and Modernity: The Revival of Artistic Lithography in Britain’, the Association for Art History Annual Conference, 8 April 2026, University of Cambridge.
Presenter: ‘Printing for the People: The Neolith a Lithographic Magazine 1907-1908’, Bibliographical Society of America annual meeting, 23 January, 2026, New York.
Chair: Art Inc. The Corporation in Art History, 5 December, 2026, Courtauld Institute of Art
Review: ‘Collective Labour and Women Artists in Britain from 1875-1945: Alexis Goodin’s A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945’, in Visual Culture in Britain, 30 September, 2025.
Presenter: ‘Authenticity and Autography in Paul Nash’s World War One Lithographs’, the Association for Art History Annual Conference, 10 April 2025, University of York.
Professional Affiliations:
British Art Network, Association of Print Scholars, Association of Art History, Victorian Society in America , Bibliographic Society of America, and International Council of Museums.
Research Interests:
- Early 20th-century lithography
- Works on paper/ printmaking histories
- Artistic networks
- Materiality
- Revivals
- Social art history
- The First World War
