by Eamonn Boylan | Nov 11, 2024 | Essays
A long-read for royalacademy.org.uk, drawing on research in the RA archive and thinking about the relationship between fine art, design, and the objects we want to take home. ‘…A 1993 visit to Terry Frost in Cornwall produced a particularly long list of...
by Eamonn Boylan | Apr 4, 2024 | Essays
Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, Spring 2024. “Her name was heard in the coffee houses and parlours of London before she arrived. Angelica Kauffman: a young painter in Italy who was coming to England. Prodigiously talented, it was said. She was Swiss, apparently,...
by Eamonn Boylan | Oct 5, 2023 | Essays
A chapter in The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger, ed. Nathalie Morris and Claire Smith, Bloomsbury, 2023 “…Chaucer doesn’t seem to have been fussed about getting his pilgrims to Canterbury; he left off his book and left them all still on the road, walking...
by Eamonn Boylan | Apr 3, 2023 | Essays
An essay in What Is It That Will Last? The Land and Tidal Art of Julie Brook, Lund Humphries, 2023. https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/what-is-it-that-will-last “…She gets as close as possible to living with, even living in, the materials she wants to...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jan 1, 2023 | Essays
Birmingham.ac.uk, January 2023 “…Presents were given at New Year in early modern England, a custom that continued until 25 December became the firm focus for Victorian celebrations. New Year poems were often composed as gifts, especially to patrons:...
