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Lecturer @UoBrisArtHist / @libarts_bristol | Writing on Houses, Collage + Bodies | Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage, out 2024 w @PrincetonUPress .
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Cover reveal time! I’m completely delighted to be able to finally share the absolutely gorgeous front cover for my forthcoming book Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage. Out September 10th with
@PrincetonUPress
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Now that the contract is signed, I’m thrilled to share that I have been appointed as Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol. This is truly my dream job, and after several years of precarity, it means the world to me. I’m utterly delighted 🎉🥂
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If anyone has a spare $5000, you should use it to buy this spectacularly good portrait of Marie Antoinette’s beloved tiny poodle, “Pompon,” by Jacques Barthélémy Delamarre.
On sale at
@Sothebys
:
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100,000 words (and more years than I'd care to admit) later, and I have just SUBMITTED THE BOOK for the final time!! Out early next year from Bloomsbury. Not a terrible start to the week.
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Just submitted a revised version of a book chapter on fatness and late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century visual and material culture, focusing on representations Daniel Lambert, so I thought I'd do a wee thread on it.
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My book, Domestic Space in Britain 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion is out TODAY from
@BloomsburyAcad
. I couldn’t be more thrilled/terrified to see it out in the world, & I’m so incredibly grateful to everyone who gave feedback or provided support as I wrote it ❤️
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Look what arrived!! (And are you even an author if you don’t take a selfie holding your book??)
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Watching the Anthony Blunt documentary and all I can think about is the lost golden age of academia, when you had time to be both an art historian AND a spy
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Now that everything is finally signed, I am exceptionally delighted to announce that my book, Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage, is now under contract with
@PrincetonUPress
! I couldn't be more excited to be a part of Princeton's brilliant Art and Architecture list.
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I finally went to The Pineapple (built 1761) and it was everything I dreamed it would be and more 🍍🍍🍍
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Now that I've got my contract, I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining
@UoDHistory
as Post Doctoral Fellow in History in June! I'll be finishing The Book, and developing both the collage & fatness projects over the two years of the Fellowship. Can't wait to get started!
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Book cover proofs are in and I honestly couldn’t be more delighted ❤️🎉
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PALS. VERY exciting news - my book cover options are in (AHHHHH)!!
Both show Plas Newydd at different stages of adornment. I like both - the first is truer to the eclecticism of the material I look at, but the second is more sophisticated and clean. What do you all think?
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OMG PALS, I just got my final reader's reports back for The Book and they are so good and positive and I barely have any work to do on final revisions and I'm completely shocked lol.
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Well the cat’s out of the bag: I’m delighted to have signed with
@PrincetonUPress
for my trade book Unseemly: A Visual History of the Fat Body 🌟🥂
.
@PrincetonUPress
has signed Unseemly: A Visual History of the Fat Body by
@Freya_Gowrley
(£)
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Now the government is claiming to have such an interest in 'preserving history' and culture this surely means we're going to get much more arts & humanities investment, right?
Right...?
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Growing up, I didn’t realise what an immense privilege it was to have a garden that is this beautiful, but every time I come home as an adult I’m blown away by the tranquil splendour of the space that my father has cultivated over the years.
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maybe, just maybe, Kim Kardashian and Shakespeare are not mutually exclusive interests?
.
@bryan_caplan
considers tangible benefits, inconvenient truths and wonders whether Latin and poetry are worth the effort when ‘Kardashian’ trumps ‘Shakespeare’ in Google search results
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And that's the full MS done!!! 🥳🥂
Obviously it'll need to pass through its second round of reader's reports, but Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion is very much on it's way to being done & dusted! 🏰🏠🏚️
Doing some final finessing on Chapter 2 today. If I can get this done, I can submit the whole MS tonight (!!)🤞🤞
also, drinking all the coffee, doing some chores, packing for travel to Derby
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I was today years old when I learned that Mussolini claimed the Loch Ness Monster as the victim of a successful Italian air strike during World War II.
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So my book is up on the
@BloomsburyBooks
website, which feels extremely surreal:
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion (Material Culture of Art and Design) Freya Gowrley: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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Absolutely delighted (& slightly overwhelmed) to have just signed the contract for my book Domestic Space in Late Georgian Britain: Materiality, Sociability, and Emotion, 1750-1840 with
@BloomsburyAcad
!
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Yes hi I am a dork and got the print out of my book chapters made up to look like the final thing 🤣 Really looking forward to marking this baby up and doing final checks and edits this month 💪✍️
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Hey pals can we not shit on new work by ecrs publicly on twitter thanks
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I have now received 4 separate emails about Bristol's REF, a thing in which I am not eligible to participate in because of the nature of my contract, and can I just say, what better way to make me feel that I exist outwith the university's research community.
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So, the exhibition I've been working on has just been announced, so I can *finally* share it on here! It's a
@NatGalleriesSco
show on collage from the sixteenth century to the present day:
Cut and Paste | 400 years of Collage
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This is such a misguided decision -closing the Wallace Collection Library and Archive would be a huge loss to both the heritage sector, and art history as a discipline in the UK
Save the Wallace Collection Library and Archive - Sign the Petition!
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I have fallen down a George Romney-portrait rabbit-hole this evening, and I’d forgotten just how startlingly lovely they are. Delicate while saturated, precise while suggestive. Definitely would have been my chosen portraitist as a fancy eighteenth-century lady…
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Honestly can’t stop watching this
Thinking about the guy that put cheese in a chocolate fountain
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Everyone must look at my Kimchi and Coconut Girl with a Pearl Earring earrings which will allow me to live my best meta art history life
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Writing about men's domestic craft pursuits today, and I'm forever entertained by the fact that Lord Byron, Beau Brummell, Charles Dickens, and Hans Christian Anderson ALL made scrap screens. Here's a panel of Dickens's screen, made at Sherborne House.
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I know it’s ridiculous but any time I see someone say they’re not interested in the eighteenth century I feel personally affronted and try desperately to restrain myself from being like sentimentalism! the novel! revolutions! giant hair! satirical prints! rococo!
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Today is for making headway on the syllabus for my absolute dream course, Collage and Its Histories. It’s period non-specific, and historiographically focused, with archival visits and lots of experimental making & remaking. Deliriously excited to start teaching it next semester.
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I have an awful headache today, but I just had an article accepted for publication (subject to some relatively minor revisions) and it has cheered me right up 🎉🎉
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Why be a boring serving bowl when you could be a tureen shaped like a cheeky little eighteenth-century crab munching his dinner?
(Now at the Peabody Essex Museum)
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1 week till I’m back at home in Chester with A PUPPY
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Just to confirm: when current ECRs complain about the State of Things, that’s not an attack on how hard things were for you in say, the 70s. Performatively outdoing each other is not solidarity.
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Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded a Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on my project Collage before Modernism!
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Thrilled to have been awarded an Émilie Du Châtelet Award from
@ASECSWomen
to conduct research for my Collage before Modernism project. Off to London to look at eighteenth-century women’s collage in its various forms
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I kind of just couldn’t disagree more with this
Ok academics, real talk - let's not have edited volumes anymore. No one wants a single book with a bunch of tangentially related papers. And they take forever to produce and come out.
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Happy Halloween!
Here’s my favourite spooky image from the eighteenth century, Daniel Gardner’s portrait of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Anne Seymour Damer in the guise of The Three Witches from Macbeth from 1775.
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Just got my book proofs (!!) and I’m having heart palpitations
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1st September and this will be my vibe for the next three months
Moscow-based photographer Anastasiya Dobrovolskaya decoded to capture the diverse beauty of the mystical forest creatures in a recent image, titled Autumn Equinox, featuring three women holding three different colored foxes.
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Thrilled that my article 'The Sister Arts: Textile Crafts between Paint, Print and Practice' has now been published by
@JECSjournal
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So sad to learn of Faith Ringgold’s passing. I thought with her work a lot for Fragmentary Forms, particularly her piece In Picasso’s Studio (1991), a powerful piece of art historical thinking and reimagination
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I'm absolutely heartbroken to see the news that A la Ronde may be closed to help recoup losses from COVID-19. Below is a little thread about the house and why it is just so important that it stays open to the public:
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Annndddd that’s the book fully redrafted!!! Have just put it all into one massive pdf file so I can send it to be printed. Then April is a month of final checks and edits 🌟💪
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Well this evening I was chopping up a peach and the stone cracked in two and two live earwigs emerged and it was maybe the worst thing that’s ever happened to me?
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I SUBMITTED MY APPLICATION! All 12,160 words of it (okay, so some of that is a CV but STILL). Now if you could all please cross everything until February I would greatly appreciate it.
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I feel like this advice is sooo out of touch! I don’t want to follow academic robots I want to follow people pls. Am I wrong? Apologies if you follow me solely for my history history takes and not photos of my dinner but 🤷♀️
lol, thanks y’all for following me anyway
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Twitter. I'm doing my first EVER lecture today. Feeling rather petrified. Send good vibes please!
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To be clear: your feminism must be intersectional to be meaningful. To launch this assault during Pride month, and during protests reacting to the painful loss of so many Black lives (including MANY Black trans women) is despicable.
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Is it me, or does March feel like both 2 weeks *and* 28 months ago?
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Today I got asked to give a lecture at the Courtauld, so life goal achieved I guess.
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It’s my birthday today, and my parents ordered a sticky toffee pudding cake for me. It is the best thing I have ever eaten.
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I’m on strike today. While I am lucky to have secured a ‘permanent’ job, like so many early career academics, I am completely emotionally and intellectually exhausted after multiple years on casual and short-term contracts.
#WhyImStriking
#UCUstrikesback
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Just had a delightful marketing meeting with the lovely folk over at
@PrincetonUPress
(including the delightful
@mfkomie
) and I’m feeling so excited that Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage will be out in a few months!!
link below👇
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The gasp I just let out upon seeing this (Boucher’s portrait of Madame de Pompadour) in the flesh
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reader: I was shortlisted 😬 Now let's all cross our fingers that they'll let me do a skype interview as I'll be in Austin 🤞🤞🤞
Uh-oh I have just seen my dream job advertised and I am simultaneously hugely excited and massively stressed at the prospect of this.
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Um yeah so this was some pretty exciting news to start the week...Completely thrilled to be the
@dns2020
ECR keynote! Australia here I come! 🇦🇺
The
#DNS2020
organising committee is delighted to announce
@Freya_Gowrley
as the conference ECR keynote lecturer! Freya will be presenting on 'The Aesthetics of Corpulence: The Visual and Material Cultures of the Fat Body in the Long 18thC." Congratulations Freya!
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👀 Bio update for my first day
@UoBrisArtHist
/
@libarts_bristol
!!
Working from home today, but flying (!) to Bristol tomorrow for Welcome Week
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Absolutely delighted & hugely grateful to have received two good bits of book-image funding news this week, with grants from
@forarthistory
&
@DerbyUni
! Together they mean that I can afford the £3000 it will cost me to secure image permissions and have some of them in colour.
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God, I am way too excited to be teaching feminist art history this coming semester. But also: YAY.
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Hey if you’re a public intellectual, with a large online following, how about not aggressively quote tweeting tweets from a junior female scholar?
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Happy
#WorldCollageDay
! I thought I'd celebrate by doing a quick post about some of my favourite collages - specifically the delicate and beautiful floral examples made by Mary Delany (1700-1788).
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Photos stolen from someone else, but VERY excitingly I'm in next month's BBC History Magazine, which was sent out today. The article explores how the Georgian fascination with bodyweight manifested in satirical prints
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Have long been trying to stop using ‘hey guys’ as it’s so gendered, so I am pleased to announce that my new greeting will be ‘hey all you cool cats and kittens’
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Ooft. Rejections at interview stage are just so painful. Almost more so when the feedback is good. God the job market is so tough.
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It’s my birthday and it will be one of puppy cuddles, good eats, lounging in the sun (when it emerges) and all the Prosecco.
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How dare u
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Thrilled to have been awarded a University of St Andrews Library Visiting Scholarship! I'll be using my time at
@StAndrewsUniLib
to think about the manuscript production of the Carmichael McIntosh family, such as this glorious scrapbook
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Today I will mostly be trying not to freak out about giving the biggest talk of my career. Also there will be coffee.
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Absolutely thrilled to say that from September 2017-June 2018 I'll be joining
@IASH_Edinburgh
as one of their Postdoctoral Research Fellows.
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I have been promoted! Just a little one, but I’m happy nonetheless 🎉✨
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I just wrote an email containing the words 'a joyous and empowered sisterhood of art historians and material culture specialists' and it made my actual day.
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So lovely to start the week with an invitation to submit a chapter for a Routledge History in one of my research areas 🥳 Stuff like this is so important when you're precarious!
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Just to say, it’s okay if you wanted to work over the holidays and did so. It’s okay if you didn’t want to and didn’t do any. It’s okay to try and take some pressure off January this weekend if you so wish. And it’s fine if you don’t. All of these things are fine.
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Absolutely thrilled that my article 'The Sister Arts: Textile Crafts between Paint, Print and Practice' has been accepted for publication in
@JECSjournal
!! 💃🥳
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❤️😭 As lots of you know, this is a topic super close to my heart. I’m delighted to do this work with PUP.
We’ve delighted to have landed world rights to an incredible new book from
@Freya_Gowrley
- Unseemly: A Visual History of the Fat Body, acquired by art & architecture publisher
@mfkomie
.
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Just to say, to anyone who gets a Big Rejection today: I was rejected THREE TIMES from that scheme (lol), and I am here to chat if you want an empathetic ear!
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When you’re being eaten but you’re enjoying it a little too much
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Current list of desires: a swim in the cool sea; an iced coffee; a full night’s sleep; a clear head; a refrigerated jade roller; a finished chapter draft.
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Over the moon to have been awarded a short-term fellowship at
@wolfsonian
. Unbelievably excited for a month in Miami Beach next summer. MIAMI FREAKING BEACH!!
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Happy to be heading back to Edinburgh today, but rather gutted to be leaving this sweet thing, who has rather won my heart in just a few days.
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