Interns from disciplines outside of the History of Art share their discoveries, as they chose and researched the objects for the displays.These blog posts were originally published on The Courtauld Gallery’s blog.
Selection Process We spent some time with various objects in the store room during the selection process. Each object provided a different perspective to view art therapy with and endless questions to explore. In the [...]
In writing this last blog post, I’m finally bringing my wonderfully long Illuminating Objects internship to a close; my second object, the pair of Zwischengoldglas beakers are now installed in The Courtauld Gallery and [...]
I had narrowed down my selection to the final two objects ready to be explored further, with thoughts on their display coming into vision now I could finally see them in the non virtual world. [...]
The whittling down has begun. As I found myself with four beautiful intriguing objects in the initial research I finally got myself down to two, with further insights leading me to think about these objects [...]
Having trained for 3 years in Bespoke Tailoring at London College of Fashion, followed by working for 3 years at different designers and now studying for my Masters in Design: Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths, I was thrilled [...]
Though museums and galleries are closed at the moment, our most recent McQueens Illuminating Objects Intern, Jack Monaghan, has still been hard at work. Later this year, one of our rarely seen artworks – Habitation, by [...]
In writing this last blog post, I’m bringing my Illuminating Objects internship to a close; the ivory box is now on display at the Science Museum! On 5th June before the Science Museum opened [...]
The Courtauld Gallery has been closed for Courtauld Connects since I started my Illuminating Objects internship. That means that picking an object for my project was quite a bit different for me than for past [...]
I’m Katrina, the current Illuminating Objects intern! Allow me to introduce myself, and explain a bit about what I’ve been up to at The Courtauld Gallery for the past few months. It’s [...]
As part of her Illuminating Objects internship, Natasha Gertler has written a series of blog posts for The Courtauld Gallery’s Blog. Read about her journey to the final display in the following blog posts. [...]
Well, my experience at The Courtauld has been fantastic — but it’s flown by so fast! Before I do anything else, I want to thank Dr. Alexandra Gerstein for her support and mentorship through these [...]
Hello and welcome to my first blog as part of the Illuminating Objects I’m a PhD student in theology and the arts at King’s College, London. My doctoral project is an interdisciplinary study [...]
After having spent several weeks researching my Illuminating Objects glass bowl, I got the chance to see it in the flesh again for a bit of a scientific investigation. I felt quite at home visiting [...]
The Courtauld’s newest instalment is finally ready and has now been sitting proudly on display for over a week. The Venetian bowl (I have become accustomed to calling it ‘my’ bowl) is small but [...]
It is now time to select my object to illuminate! Perhaps embedded with a genetic interest for ceramics, I had initially thought about selecting some albarelli, earthenware pharmacy jars, some of which are already on [...]
The Courtauld Gallery is one of the last places I would have guessed I would be working, if you had asked me a few years ago. At this time, a pharmaceutical or neurological laboratory would [...]
After weeks of research, proofreading, soliciting the opinions of experts in West African carving, textiles and craft and meetings with the web designer, marketing team and mount maker, the project has eventually come together with [...]
With a background in the anthropology of craft work in West Africa and having spent time in a weaving workshop in Ghana, choosing the Guro loom pulley as the focus of my research at The [...]
Three months ago, I stood in front of The Courtauld Institute of Art and said the magic phrase: Open Sesame! My heart beat got louder and louder. The little satan in my head went on: “[...]
In a series of blog posts, postgraduate intern Victoria Druce (MSc student at Imperial College London) looked behind the scenes to give an insight into how she researched the filigree glasses. It was an early [...]
9 July 2013 The shelves of the V&A’s study collection are full to bursting with glass upon glass sitting silently on the shelves. They make for a dazzling display. My research for the glasses [...]
Curating the the Küslins’ Bible was an attractive prospect for me as I have an academic background in Prints and printmaking and my current PhD is in Theology and the Arts. Delving into the [...]
Posted on 30 October 2012 by Dr Eleni Dimitriadou. Illuminating Objects is a new series of displays that shines a light on unexpected objects from the decorative arts and sculpture collection. All these objects have interesting stories [...]
