Concealed Interiors: 1850-1910 is a collaborative seminar series bringing together staff and lecturers from the Geffrye Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Gallery and The Courtauld Institute of Art. It will deliver seminars and site visits exploring topics ranging from cabinet interiors, sensory engagement with furniture, representations of gas lighting, Victorian gift books, scent and space, ephemeral fabrics, health and possessions, and hidden wall paintings.
By placing participants of this series in close contact with objects and asking important questions about the relationship between people, their possessions and surroundings, this seminar series will attempt to establish alternative methodological frameworks for studies of the interior.
Christina Bradstreet is Courses and Events Programmer at the National Gallery. She has taught 19th-century painting at Birkbeck College and Royal Holloway. Christina is working on her book manuscript Scented Visions: Smell in British Art 1850-1910.
Her PhD was awarded Birkbeck’s Anne Humphrey’s Prize for 19th-century studies. She was Acting Head of Art History at Godolphin and Latymer and Director of Careers at Sotheby’s Institute, and she serves as Honorary Secretary of the Association of Art Historians.