Kirsty Stonell Walker

LATEST ARTICLES ( 598 )

• Review: Marie Spartali Stillman at the Watts Gallery

  

  The last review of this week comes from one of the most eagerly awaited exhibitions of this year. Although I obviously relish the chance to go to large-scale... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2016 CULTURE

• Review: The Rise and Fall of the English Switzerland

  

  Second review of the week, and I've been out and about visiting a new exhibition on the English Switzerland, something I did not know about before. Not only... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2016 CULTURE

• Review: Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy Subjects'

  

  This is the first of three reviews I'll be posting this week, and I'm starting with a weighty, intelligent new book on Julia Margaret Cameron... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2016 CULTURE

• Blind Mary Gilbert (or Life After Julia Margaret Cameron)

  

  One of the most complicated things to work out when writing a biography of a model is what happens to your subject after they stop modelling. Paull F. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2016 CULTURE

• Six Degrees of Agnes Mangles

  

  As I have said before, I have a particular fondness for this photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron...Vivien and Merlin (1874)It seems very apparent from... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2016 CULTURE

• World Poetry Day 2016: Portrait of Sophie Gray

  

  Here we are on World Poetry Day again and I have written a poem inspired by the famous and wonderful portrait of Sophie Gray, painted by her brother-in-law, Joh... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2016 CULTURE

• Book Review: The Testament of Sophie Dawes

  

  I've been very lucky with books to review of late and have had the pleasure of bringing you some marvellous non-fiction books, with yet more to come. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2016 CULTURE

• Book Review: Pre-Raphaelites, Beauty and Rebellion

  

  You probably know that Liverpool have a massive Pre-Raphaelite exhibition on at present. Pre-Raphaelites: Beauty and Rebellion is currently running at the Walke... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2016 CULTURE

• Lewis Carroll: Photography on the Move Q&A with Lindsay Smith

  

  I had the pleasure of meeting Lindsay Smith last year at the Julia Margaret Cameron conference in Portsmouth. She was the chair of the panel I was on and then... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2016 CULTURE

• Fanny Cornforth: The Style Edition

  

  Here we are at the end of our first Fanny-versary and after all the reading and stuff we've had this week I thought I'd end on a post to do with the visual. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2016 CULTURE

• Seeing Through Time (and Much Scraping)

  

  So, we come to the penultimate post of this first Fanny-versary week and I am going to talk about Rossetti and his scraping. He obviously isn't the only... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2016 CULTURE

• Finding and Forgetting Fanny

  

  Today marks the anniversary of the death of Fanny Cornforth. No doubt on social media I will get to chat to fellow Fanny fans, not to mention museums and... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2016 CULTURE

• Fanny/Sarah Cornforth/Cox/Hughes/Schott

  

  What's in a name? When approaching the thorny issue of Fanny Cornforth,then quite a bit as she had a number of names, or so it seems. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2016 CULTURE

• Is Fanny Cornforth the Model for Monna Vanna?

  

  Welcome to a week of posts about Fanny Cornforth. Me and Fanny have quite a long history together, over twenty years now, but this is the first year I can mark... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2016 CULTURE

• Review: Pre-Raphaelites on Paper at Leighton House

  

  I love having an excuse to visit Leighton House. It is a wonderful setting for exhibitions, with its jewel-blue walls and peacock feathers, wide open rooms and... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2016 CULTURE

• Review:The Romantic Thread in British Art

  

  A complaint I often hear about museums is that so much of their collection is never seen, hidden away in stores, never to see the light of day. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2016 CULTURE

• Love to Lose Your Head Over...

  

  You know you are a proper historian when you are Prit-Sticking down a big picture of Henry VII to a roll of paper while trying to explain Martin Luther to a... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2016 CULTURE

• The Man in High Collars

  

  There is a distinct difference between Mr Walker and myself in matters of musical taste and more specifically the way we load up an MP3. Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2016 CULTURE

• A Short Post About a Nice Grave

  

  Just a tiny post about a wonderful grave I saw this afternoon...I was in Chesterton Cemetery in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, looking for an entirely different... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2016 CULTURE

• Go Fish!

  

  Whilst madly researching a piece for next week (or the week after, depends how I get on) I was looking for something lovely to amuse you during this cold,... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2016 CULTURE