Ms Carla Briggs BA, MA.
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Biography:
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Following the completion of her post-graduate studies in 1994 Carla Briggs was a lecturer in the Department of History of Art & Design at Limerick School of Art until her appointment as Slide Curator at UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy in 1998. Since 2000 Briggs has also taught and co-ordinated the Purser Griffith Lectures and University Diploma in the History of European
Painting. Previously, she worked variously for the Education departments of the National Gallery of Ireland & Dublin City Gallery: the Hugh Lane as guide, researcher, summer course co-ordinator and lecturer. She also worked as a tutor on the Art History BA programme at UCD, and devised and taught a number of Art History courses for the Adult Education Centre from 1994-2004. In addition, she has worked as picture researcher for a number of books and exhibitions. This work included research for an exhibition of the paintings of Mary Herbert and the collation a catalogue of her work for the Trustees of Muckross House, Killarney, and acting as a picture editor for The Encyclopaedia of Ireland [B. Lalor (ed), Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2003]. Carla Briggs sits on the Editorial Committee of Artefact: the Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians. |
Research Interests
Book Chapters
| Carla Briggs; (2010) 'Margaret Clarke's history paintings' In: Eimear O'Connor (eds). Irish Women Artists 1800-2009 Familiar but Unknown. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Briggs, C.; (2005) 'The Landscape Painters' In: Larner, J (eds). Killarney - History & Heritage. Ireland: The Collins Press. [Details] |
Catalogue
| Butler, P. and McCoole, S. and Briggs, C.; (1999) Mary Herbert of Muckross House, 1817-1893. Catalogue [Details] |
Associations
| Association: Irish Association of Art Historians, Function/Role: Committee Member |
Conference Contributions
| Carla Briggs; (2009) Margaret Clarke (1884-1961) and the question of her 'history' paintings. [Oral Presentation], Familiar but Unknown – Irish Women Artists and Artisans: Methods and Methodologies of Remembering, Emmet Theatre, Trinity College Dublin , 17-OCT-09 - 17-OCT-09. |
Committees
| Committee : Irish Association of Art Historians |
| Committee : Artefact: Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians |