Northumbria University

Senior Research Assistant, Arts and Humanities

About

Sally-Anne Huxtable joined Northumbria University as Senior Research Assistant in Design History in October 2010 to work with Professor Cheryl Buckley on the project ‘Fashion and Everyday Life‘ and will take up a permanent position as Lecturer in Design History in August 2011. She previously worked as the Research Associate for the 2010/11 exhibition and catalogue Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts at Dallas Museum of Art. Sally has also undertaken work for a number of museums including Tate Britain, The Courtauld Institute of Art, The Museo Naçional del Prado, The Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico and the De Morgan Centre as well as working as a lecturer at the University of Bristol. Sally recently completed her PhD entitled ‘Inward Worlds: Aestheticism and Its Interiors, 1848 to 1900’ at the University of Bristol where she was supervised by Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn.   

Research Interests

My research interests focus upon the visual, material and literary cultures of Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau and early Modernism in Britain and the often complex interweaving of ideas and artistic practices espoused by artists, designers, writers and reformers in Britain, Europe and America during the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century. I am especially interested in notions of interiors and interiority, including the relationship between visual and material culture and spiritual and sensory experience. Other research interests include revivals and receptions in art, fashion and design in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, Orientalism in British design, and the graphic work of the American architect, artist and designer Harvey Ellis. 

Teaching interests

Art and Design History, Cultural History, Museology. 

Publications

[Forthcoming] Catalogue of the British 18th and 19th Century Art in the Museo de Arte  de Ponce, Puerto Rico. Museo de Arte de Ponce, 2011. (Co-authored with Alison Smith) 

[Forthcoming] Object entries in Dallas Museum of Art Collection Handbook. Dallas Museum of Art, 2011 

‘Order and Disarray: Two Watercolours by Frederick Walker’ essay in Life, Legend Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Institute, February 2011. 

Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement , Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University Press, September 2010 

‘Re-Reading the Green Dining Room’ in Jason Edwards and Imogen Hart eds. Rethinking the Interior c. 1867-1896,  Aldershot: Ashgate, April 2010. 

La Bella Durmiente: Pintura Victoriana del Museo de Arte de Ponce/ The Sleeping Beauty: Victorian Paintings from the Museo de Arte de Ponce . Milan: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2009 (Co-authored with: Cheryl Hartup, Richard Aste, Heather Birchall and Alison Smith) 

‘The Seduction of Liberty’ (A feminist exploration of Liberty & Co and Aestheticism) in MAKE: the Magazine of Women’s Art: 73. December 1996/ January 1997, pp.6-9.   

Selected Conference Papers, Lectures and Gallery Talks 

‘’To These Belong the World and the Future’ : Harvey Ellis, Illustration and the Craftsman Magazine, 1903.’ Craftsman Farms 1st Annual Symposium, 15 April 2011. 

‘Gustav Stickley and American Arts and Crafts Design’ Dallas International Art, Antiques and Jewellery Show, 7th November 2009. 

‘”The Melting Pot of the Future”’: Nineteenth Century British Metalwork and Design Reform.’ Dallas Museum of Art, Gallery Talk, 30th September 2009. 

‘“Love’s Pilgrimage”: Edward Burne-Jones’ The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness, Dallas Museum of Art, Gallery Talk, February 2009. 

‘“Beautiful and Useful:” Dress, Aestheticism and Artistic Identity 1831-1890.’ Artistry and Industry,University of Exeter, 20th July 2008. 

‘Pleasurable Sensations: Aestheticism and the Notion of Synaesthesia’ Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Leeds, April 2006. 

‘Re-reading the Green Dining Room.’ The Aesthetic Interior, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of London, September 2005. 

‘Tripping the Light Fantastic: Transcendence, Ecstasy and Aestheticism.’ Association of Art Historians Summer School, University of Plymouth, July 2004. 

Conferences Organised

Artistry and Industry: Representations of Creative Labour in Literature and the Visual Arts c. 1830-1900. University of Exeter 18-20 July 2008.

(Co-organised with Dr. Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Dr. Sunie Fletcher and Dr. Patricia Zakreski)                                                                         

 

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