Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner

BA Hons (Cantab), MA (Yale), PhD (London)

Research Assistant - IRCHSS Reconstructions of the Gothic Past
Provost’s House Stables
Irish Art Research Centre
Dept. of the History of Art,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2

E-mail: olivia.horsfallturner@tcd.ie

Memberships

• Conference Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
• Minutes Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (external)
• Member of the Irish Georgian Society
• Member of the Georgian Society
• Member of the Society of Architectural Historians

Research Interests:

• Architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain
• Revivalism and historicism in architecture, particularly medievalism
• The historiography of architectural history
• Architectural drawings and representations
• Historical landscape painting.

Academic Awards/Fellowships:

• Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting Fellowship 2008.
• British Federation of Women Graduates Doctoral Fellowship 2007-8.
• Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Fellow, November-December 2007.
• Art and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Research Award 2004-2007.
• Clare-Yale Mellon Fellow 2002-2004.

Academic Teaching:

• Supervisor for ‘The Meaning of Architecture’, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Cambridge University, 2006; 2007.
• Course Lecturer for ‘Architecture in London, Twelfth to Nineteenth Centuries’, Department of History of Art, University College London, 2006.

Research Programmes:

Participant in the Writing Art History Seminar Group at the Courtauld Institute of Art (external), investigating the changing narratives of art history, and the role of the art historian, writer and critic. My research for this seminar is entitled Reading History and Writing Architectural History and examines the writing of architectural history within the framework of writing art history. Examining material from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England, I am investigating the narration of architecture within the arts as a whole.

Selected Conference Papers & Public Lectures:

• ‘My Survey of the Churches Fabricke: reading architectural representations from mid-seventeenth-century England’, Society of Architectural Historians 61st Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 2008.
• ‘I will begin with the Fabricke of this Church: Using buildings as historical evidence in seventeenth-century England’, British Federation of Women Graduates Meeting, February 2008.
• ‘That new kinde of Architecture: Perceptions of Norman architecture in seventeenth-century Britain’, Oxford University Architectural History Seminar, April, 2007.
• ‘Forging Historical Landscape Painting in England, 1760-1850’, Yale Center for British Art, February 2005.
• ‘Portrait of a Property: Wollaton Hall by Jan Siberechts’, Yale Center for British Art, May 2004.
• ‘Medieval Materialism: Gothic Furniture and Tableware in the YUAG collection’, Yale University Art Gallery, May 2004.
• ‘Medieval Margins for Modern Meanings: Architectural Ornament at Yale University’, 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2003.

Selected Publications:

• ‘“A notable gift to the nation”: The Ingram Collection’, in Geoff Quilley, ed, Art for the Nation: The Oil Paintings Collections of the National Maritime Museum, (London, 2006), pp. 71-83.
• ‘Mapping Space, Mapping Time: The Thirteenth-Century Painted Ceiling at Salisbury Cathedral’, Antiquaries Journal, 85, 2005, pp. 57-102. (with M. Reeve).
• ‘Nobleness and Grandeur: Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760-1850’ (Exhibition Pamphlet, Yale Center for British Art, 2005).

Curatorial:

• Curator, Nobleness and Grandeur: Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760-1850, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, 2005.