Rachael Cummings-Naylor
Crafting Kingship: Hellenistic Royal Portraiture
"A standardised visual vocabulary of royal ideology represented by statues and coinage"
Is art a form of political propaganda?
Art has been employed throughout history as a political tool to propagate ideas of power and ideology and challenge them. However, art is a...
Yevonde: The woman who revolutionised colour photography
“Portrait photography without women would be a sorry business.” (Yevonde Middleton, 1921)
I walked into the Yevonde: Life and Colour exhibition at the National Portrait...
A Summer as a Volunteer at the National Portrait Gallery
The ‘Long Vac’ is called ‘long’ for a reason and I did not want to waste a second of it. When I saw...
“A Must-See”: Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean
I did not know what to expect when I arrived at the Ashmolean to preview their newest exhibition, Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion &...
