Introductory essay for major international exhibition catalogue on a key issue within the Aesthetic Movement culture in late nineteenth century Britain: the role of religion and ritual in the period.

Protestant Nonconformity has, since the establishment of the denominations and permanent places of worship, adapted and adopted religious artefacts as aids to evangelism, teaching, church and domestic decoration, commemoration ...

Baron Clark of Saltwood is generally accredited with bringing the work of Sidney Nolan before the British public and helping to establish his career in London. In his autobiography, Clark describes his surprise ‘discovery’ ...

Rummaging the ‘queer’ smelling attic of his parental home, a space filled with ‘big trunks, broken furniture, old books, old clothes, and odds and ends of all sorts,’ fifteen-year-old Forrest Reid hit upon a treasure that ...

A long-serving member of the Royal Academy of Arts and a founder of the Society of Wood Engravers, Sydney Lee is one of Britain’s most underrated painter-printmakers. Over a period of four decades, he travelled widely ...