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Katie J. T. Herrington
Postdoctoral Researcher

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Biography

Katie Jane Tyreman Herrington is Curator at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University Library Galleries. She is also a Non-Stipend Postdoctoral Researcher affiliated with the Department of History of Art, University of York. In this role, she won funding for and has led the Tate British Art Specialist Network Sub Group 'British Women Artists 1750 to 1950' since 2015 (Herrington’s recent project was the co-curation, with Rebecca Milner (Curator of Fine Arts, Manchester Art Gallery), of the exhibitionAnnie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope, Manchester Art Gallery, 2018. Her edited collection Joanna Mary Boyce, George Price Boyce and Henry Tamworth Wells: British Painters in the Mid Nineteenth Century (forthcoming Boydell & Brewer, 2019) is also in progress.

In 2013 Herrington undertook an AHRC funded postdoctoral Cultural Engagement Fellowship entitled Three Graces: Victorian women, visual art and exchange which was a collaboration between the University of York and Victoria & Albert Museum. The chief outcome of that project was an online exhibition: http://hoaportal.york.ac.uk/hoaportal/threegraces.jsp. As Network Facilitator for the Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, Modernism and the Arts, c. 1875-1960Leverhulme Trust international network at the University of York (2012-15) she assisted with the mounting of two project exhibitions and the preparation of the book Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the arts and the American West (Fulgur Estoria, 2018), in which she has two chapters “Beatrice Wood: Theosophy, Krishnamurti and Enchanted Vessels” and “Artists Biographies.”

She is interested in nineteenth-century British and European art and particularly concerned with the material qualities of Victorian paintings. Her research focuses on artworks produced by a number of women artists who worked beyond predetermined categories and between disciplines and media and explores their formation of specific artistic identities through their art.

Publications

Selected publications

  • Three Graces: Victorian women, visual art and exchange, online exhibition (launched 5 February 2014)
  • ‘Catalogue entry for Edward Matthew Ward’s The Fall of Clarendon (1846)’ and ‘Biographical Note for Edward Matthew Ward’, in L'Invention du Passé, exh. cat. (Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, 19 Apr – 21 Jul 2014)
  • 'The Three Graces within their Familiar and Artistic Circles', Online Resource published on the Victorian women, visual art and exchange site, History of Art Research Portal, University of York
  • [Forthcoming] 'Beatrice Wood: Theosophy, Krishnamurti and Enchanted Vessels', in Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West (Fulgur Press, Summer 2016).

Book Reviews

  •  ‘Review: Genteel Mavericks: Professional Women Sculptors in Victorian Britain by Shannon Hunter Hurtado’, in The Sculpture Journal (Print and online: Dec, 2013)
  •  ‘Review: ‘What is in the Detail?’: The New Painting of the 1860s by Allen Staley (Yale University Press, 2011)’, Hope: The Life and Times of a Victorian Icon by Nicholas Tromans(Surrey, Watts Gallery, 2011), Watts Chapel: A Guide to the Symbols of Mary Watts’s Arts and Crafts Masterpiece by Mark Bills (London/ New York, Philip Wilson Ltd./ Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and An Artists’ Village: G.F. Watts and Mary Watts at Compton by Mark Bills (Surrey/ New York, Watts Gallery, Philip Wilson Ltd. & Palgrave Mcmillan, 2011), in Journal of Victorian Culture (Routledge, 26 Jun 2012) & Journal of Victorian Culture Online (Print and online: Routledge, 21 Jun 2012)
  • ‘Review: J. W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite, Royal Academy of Arts London, 27 June - 13 September 2009. J. W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite, exhibition catalogue with essays by Elizabeth Prettejohn, Peter Trippi, Robert Upstone and Patty Wageman (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2009)’, Visual Culture in Britain, vol. 10, November (Print and online: Routledge, 2009)

Contact details

Katie Tyreman Herrington
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of History of Art

External activities

Invited talks and conferences

  • Invited Position Paper - "Annie Louisa Swynnerton, A.R.A.": Overlooked Victorians, British Art Network Meeting, Manchester CAG (16 January 2014)
  • "Three Graces Project: Women Artists, Exchange and Visibility" - ATINER (Athens Institute for Education and Research), 4th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, Athens, Greece (4th May 2013)
  • Victorian Women: Inter-Disciplinary & Institutional Exchange, An In-Gallery Symposium, V&A Research Department (4 March 2013)
  • "Re-examining Joanna Mary Boyce Wells: A Penchant for the Small": University of York, Symposium, Victorian Women Artists Revisited (27 April 2011)
  • "Annie Louisa Swynnerton: Sculpting Paint": Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Graduate Symposium The Substance of Paint (26 February 2011)

 

Curatorial Work