Clare Taylor

Historian of art & design. Professor of Art History and Material Cultures, Open University. My book on 18thC wallpaper is out now with Routledge

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Looking forward to exploring @AshmoleanMuseum with #A237 students @OU_ArtHistory

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Thanks to the lovely team at Great Chalfield Manor for their welcome during my visit this week #GiltLeatherRooms @nationaltrust

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Great to meet up with our fab team and celebrate Dr Emma Hardy's PhD: 'A Modern but Useful Art: William Morris, Jeffrey & Co and the Morris & Co Wallpapers 1864-c.1928' @OOCDTP

[OU Art History @OU_ArtHistory]

Celebrating Dr Emma Hardy’s award of her PhD on the Morris & Co Wallpapers with Susie West, Keren Protheroe and @_ClareTaylor @TwoTemplePlace. Congratulations Emma! 🎉

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Thanks so much to @Saschaloske for organising this study visit for me #giltleatherrooms

[Dr Alexandra Loske @Saschaloske]

Great day at Preston Manor @BrightonMuseums, learning from @_ClareTaylor, Professor of Art History and Material Culture at the Open University @OU_FASS about our 17th century gilt leather wallpaper. #giltleatherrooms #allthatglitters

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Thanks to all at @NTGreyfriars for their help during my visit to study the house's screens #GiltLeatherRooms

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

It's all things myth and mythmaking @HughendenNT later in April, but Medusa and Cyclops are already in the garden, and The Odyssey is on display in the library @OU_FASS #A112

[Dr Serena Dyer @Serena_Dyer]

✨Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress✨ has been published! It’s out with @CambridgeUP and you can access it 🔥for free🔥 until 12th April! https://t.co/4J2HCcfkha

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Delighted to meet up with Masters of Arts in Art History graduates at the Barbican Degree Ceremony- many congratulations! @OU_FASS #OUFamily

[OU Art History @OU_ArtHistory]

Many congratulations to all our graduating students, including Michael I. Ohajuru, who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at a recent London ceremony. L to R: @michael1952, @gemthetwit, Emma Barker, @msmorganp, @museumlynn, @CarlaBenzan, and @_ClareTaylor.

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Huge thanks to @HannahMawdsley and everyone at Ham for all their hard work during our filming for A237, Art and Life before 1800

[OU Art History @OU_ArtHistory]

Filming on location at @HamHouseNT, with huge thanks to @nationaltrust, especially @HannahMawdsley and Sophie. A bit chilly for the 8am shots outside, glad to get indoors for the Long Gallery, the unique Green Closet and the 1670s library room. 1/2 @_ClareTaylor

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Great time at the Barbican Degree Ceremony, seeing so many wonderful students graduating and @CarlaBenzan presenting Hon Graduand
@michael1952 @OU_FASS #OUFamily

[Michael I. Ohajuru DUniv, FRSA @michael1952]

From Open University Starter Pack in 2004 to Honorary Doctorate in 2024 thank all who have been on the journey with me.... https://t.co/gI1OuAz85O #OUFamily #OpenUniverstity #Humanities #HumanitesMatter #StayWoke

[OU Art History @OU_ArtHistory]

We have been busy in the OU recording studios, making recordings for A237 'Art and its worlds before 1800'. @_ClareTaylor, Susie & Robert are preparing for an audio discussion, enjoying the refurbished sound studio with Simon West on sound & Kiran Kaur our producer.

[TheJugaadProject @jugaad__project]

Clare Taylor, Prof of Art History & Material Cultures, @_ClareTaylor @OU_ArtHistory joined our book event on Jan 19.

“I found the attention to bodily techniques in the process of making especially interesting, and how this builds on the idea of a more ‘open-ended’ approach…

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Very grateful for the opportunities which have got me to this point @OpenUniversity @OU_FASS @OU_ArtHistory
as well as to @PaulMellonCentr and to curators and archivists across the four nations including @nationaltrust who have enabled my research #GiltLeatherRooms

[OU Art History @OU_ArtHistory]

Congratulations to Dr Bonnie Emmett who recently successfully defended her OOC-DTP funded PhD, 'Housing for Single Working Women in Inter-War London 1919-1939'. Her examiners were @_ClareTaylor & @ArchHistDarling. Project supervisors: Dr Susie West & Professor Elizabeth McKellar.

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

belated thanks to Eleanor Brooke-Peat and curatorial colleagues @CastleHowardEst for all their help with my research for #GiltLeatherRooms during my recent visit

[OU Arts & Social Sciences @OU_FASS]

"Her alert pose, gesture and expression also suggest listening, and that she is in conversation with an unseen audience."

Insight by @_ClareTaylor Sr Lecturer, @OU_ArtHistory.

Right Honourable Betty Boothroyd, 1929 – 2023. 6/

[OU Arts & Social Sciences @OU_FASS]

PUBLISHED📚‘Aristophanes: Lysistrata’ by Prof James Robson sets #Lysistrata in its social and historical context, looking at key themes such as politics, religion and its provocative portrayal of women. By @BloomsburyClass 6/8

https://t.co/907jAKnnjQ @OU_Classics

[Clare Taylor @_ClareTaylor]

Delighted to be part of @ConversationUK shining an icy spotlight on glass @V_and_A & prints @britishmuseum

[OU Arts & Social Sciences @OU_FASS]

6/7 IN PRINT 📰 “Makers and sellers of all manner of goods set up stall on the ice, including weavers with their looms and sellers of lottery tickets and toys.”❄️❄️❄️ Dr @_ClareTaylor on Frost Fairs for @ConversationUK

https://t.co/3BVoCt0aYx

#ArtHistory

[OU Arts & Social Sciences @OU_FASS]

#DeckTheWalls – a thread. 'Tis the season for homes to look a little more glitzy than usual, so we asked #ArtHistory academic @_ClareTaylor to share the most decadent and ornate walls she’s come across in her research…1/7
#Decor #AcademicTwitter @BatemansNT @OU_ArtHistory