Lunchtime Talk | Dr Maddie Hewitson
Wednesday 15 January, 1 – 1.30pm
Lady Barber Gallery
Free, Booking Essential
Our Lunchtime Talks are delivered by staff, students, academics and researchers at the Barber and our wider University of Birmingham community. Focused on key works in our exhibitions and collection, the talks take place in the gallery and are an informal and interesting way of looking closely at artwork.
In this talk, researcher Maddie Hewitson will explore Simeon Solomon’s A Saint of the Eastern Church. In this painting, the artist approaches Orthodox Christianity as a multi-sensory engagement with faith and displays of belief. The talk will reveal Solomon’s approach to representing religion in Victorian art and the sensorial splendour of this particular painting.
Dr Maddie Hewitson is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow within the Art History Department at the University of Birmingham. Their Leverhulme fellowship project, titled ‘The First Covenant: understanding the role of the Hebrew Bible in Victorian art’ offers the first sustained analysis of the role the Old Testament played in British visual culture.
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