Kathleen Hale: Before the illustrations of Orlando
For her placement module, 3rd Year History Student, Holly Whapshott has been researching some of our most recent acquisitions by artist Kathleen Hale In March 2022, the University Art Collection bought […]
Top Five Fears: The Darker Side of the Collection
This blog is an adaptation of our Museum Studies placement student, Shona Amer’s recent Twitter thread, where she delved into the scarier parts of our collection for Halloween. Art is […]
Women by Women
For International Women’s Month, Georgie Hollands-Gray, a second year Museum Studies student on placement with the University Art Collection, highlights women artists and looks to promote their work “In actuality, […]
Portraiture and the Art Collection
Cerys Cartwright, a third-year art student on placement with the University Art Collection explores portraiture in the University Art Collection I have been fortunate enough to spend several weeks working […]
Curating during Covid-19: A volunteer art student’s experience curating accessible art
Laura Rozamunda Allsopp-Huddle shares her experience volunteering with the University Art Collection during COVID-19. Earlier this year, from January to April, I worked for the University of Reading’s Art Collection […]
Going Global: A Student Exhibition
Our outgoing placement student, Laura May Bailey, describes her experience at the Art Collection, and curation of a new Ladybird Gallery exhibition. Somehow, I find myself in the eighth and […]
Elemental: Realism in the Art Collections
Museum Studies Placement Student, Laura May Bailey, explores Realism in the Art Collection, comparing the work of Walter Richard Sickert and Diane Ibbotson. Walter Richard Sickert’s frank drawings of urban life in the early twentieth […]
Art, Artists and Mental Health
3rd Year Museum Studies Student and volunteer, Freya, has been investigating the University Art Collection for links between art and mental health. There is a connection between the rise in […]
One Giant Leap: A Student Exhibition
Our outgoing placement student, Morgan Woodhouse, reveals what goes into creating a Ladybird Books exhibition Since the beginning of July, I have been working as a placement student in the […]