The National College
of Art & Design
The National College
of Art & Design
Research
Areas of research expertise include the material culture of eighteenth-century Ireland, the practices and spaces of consumer culture, the history of collecting and twentieth-century Irish craft and design.
She is particularly interested in the material culture of shops and shopping, the relationship between people and objects, and issues surrounding gender, politics and consumption. She is currently in the final stages of a PhD focused on the production and consumption of Irish glass and its place in the consumer culture of Georgian Dublin.
Forthcoming publications include an essay on the promotion of Irish design, particularly the visual and verbal language used in the representation of objects designed by the Kilkenny Design Workshops in American department stores during the period 1967-76. This will be included in Negotiations: Design, Modernity and Visual Culture in Ireland 1922-92 (ed. Linda King and Elaine Sisson, to be published by Cork University Press in 2010). She is an advisor to the Heritage Council-funded Kilkenny Design Workshops Photographic Image Management Project and is currently co-editing a collection of essays entitled Love Objects: engaging material culture, arising from a conference which she co-organised on the same theme.
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