Tate
In December 2009, the Department signed a partnership agreement with Tate Britain.
For the first three years of the partnership, from 2009-2012,
- a Tate Britain curator or member of Tate's Research Department taught a full MA module each spring term. Karen Hearn, Curator of 16th and 17th Century British Art at Tate Britain, was the first visiting curator to come to York on this scheme.
- an art historian from York spent an equivalent amount of time working on research and exhibition projects at Tate Britain. Jason Edwards visited Tate Britain in 2010 to work on Tate's collection of sculpture by Alfred Gilbert.
The partnership reinforces the department's close relationship with the Tate, which was already expressed in the Arts and Humanities Research Council-supported three-year research project, ', led by Liz Prettejohn and two colleagues from Tate Britain, Professor Nigel Llewellyn and Dr Martin Myrone. This in turn led to the ongoing collaborative project The Art World in Britain 1660 to 1735.
For more information about our links with the Tate, email Liz Prettejohn.