Kirsty Stonell Walker

LATEST ARTICLES ( 627 )

• Sing!

  

  As you have all witnessed, I love to sing. Even on these otherwise silent pages there is no escape, as I proved in this post. Good Lord, the horror, imagine... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 CULTURE

• A Highly Remunerative Notoriety

  

  Whilst researching many and varied things, I came across a very modern literary affair that is all but forgotten now. I expect some of you clever lot have read... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 CULTURE

• When Oscar Met Julia

  

  You may have read recently that the National Portrait Gallery have acquired an album of Oscar Gustave Rejlander’s work and it will be unveiled to the public in... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2016 CULTURE

• The Holy Busker

  

  Mr Walker and I often joke that if you legitimately want to show boobs in a painting, you can always call it 'Andromeda'. By hanging a classical or biblical... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2016 CULTURE

• The Song of the Trousers

  

  While pottering about with research, I came across an interesting little story which I shall share with you. It concerns Ann and Emily Lockyer, mother and... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2016 CULTURE

• Kiss Me, I'm 5!

  

  Well, look, this is getting ridiculous! This nonsense has been going on now for five years and for some reason you lovely people have been good enough to... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2016 CULTURE

• Charlotte Brontë, 21st April 1816

  

  Happy Charlotte Brontë day! Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the author of Jane Eyreand to celebrate I bring you a bit of a mystery…Charlotte... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2016 CULTURE

• Splendid Lecture at Leighton House - Special Offer!

  

  You will remember that a month or so ago I reviewed the gorgeous exhibition that is currently on at Leighton House. Well, the splendid people at Leighton House... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2016 CULTURE

• Movie Night: Les Sœurs Brontë

  

  Are you looking for suggestions for a film for this evening? Looking for something to curl up in front of with some chocolate, a positive mental attitude and... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2016 CULTURE

• 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