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Author: Miriam Al Jamil

Miriam al Jamil has a B.Ed. in English and Education from Wolfson College, Cambridge, and MAs from The University of Kent, Canterbury, and King's College, London. She is now researching towards a PhD at Birkbeck College, London. Her current research is on women’s engagement with Classical sculpture in the eighteenth century, a subject which was inspired by her earlier work on the Townley collection of Grand Tour sculpture at the British Museum. Miriam has given conference papers at BSECS Oxford, King’s College, London, the British Museum and the V&A. She is part of the Burney Society UK, the Johnson Society of London and is a key member of The Women’s Studies Group, 1558-1837; she regularly gives talks, papers and chairs panels for all three academic groups. She has contributed a chapter to Antiquity and Enlightenment, a forthcoming Brill Publication, regularly writes reviews for London Student and is fine arts review editor for BSECS Criticks online. She can be contacted on mstock05@mail.bbk.ac.uk or via twitter @MiriamJamil

Alice: Curioser & Curioser at the V&A, London

31st August 202131st August 2021  Miriam Al Jamil

Miriam Al Jamil goes down the rabbit hole at the V&A’s latest exhibition, Alice: Curioser and Curioser, and discovers how Lewis Carroll’s books inspired generations of artists, designers, illustrators and film-makers.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Alice Curioser and Curioser, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Liddell, Ellen Terry, exhibition, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, V&A

Artemisia at the National Gallery, London

1st November 20201st November 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition celebrates the professional ingenuity, self-confidence and skilful proto-feminist paintings of one of Italy’s best Early Modern women artists, Artemisia Gentileschi.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Alexandra Lapierre, Art History, Artemisia, Artemisia Gentileschi, Baroque, exhibition, Italian Baroque Art, Italian painting, Letizia Treves, Mary Garrard, National Gallery, Nina Houle, painting, Renaissance, Simon Vouet, Sistine Chapel

Alice McCabe, Fieldworks at the Glass Cloud Gallery

5th October 20205th October 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Alice McCabe’s beautiful tapestries weave millet, flowers, paper and wire together as a timely reminder of our dependency on nature and its residual energy to heal, writes Miriam Al Jamil.

Read More “Alice McCabe, Fieldworks at the Glass Cloud Gallery”
Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Alice McCabe, Camden Peoples Theatre Windows, Flowers, Glass Cloud Gallery, Hannah Luxton, installation, Masanobu Fukuoka, millet, Tapestry, window galleries

Postcards in Isolation 14: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1782

12th July 202012th July 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Delving into the rich traditions of gothic literature, sentimental fiction and old folk tales, Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare, 1782, appears from another world. But not so, says Miriam Al Jamil, who recognises in the painting an awareness of human psychology foreshadowing that found in modern psycho-analysis, dream theory and psychiatry.

Read More “Postcards in Isolation 14: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1782”
Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Covid-19, Dreaming, dreams, eighteenth-century, Freud, Gothic Fiction, Henri Fuseli, Lockdown Living, Miriam Al Jamil, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Psycho-analysis, Psychology, Rochelle Roberts, Romantics, Sigmund Freud, The Nightmare

Interview with award-winning novelist, Kim Sherwood – ‘There is a boldness now in women’s writing, a refusal to apologise’

10th June 202011th June 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Kim Sherwood, award-winning author of Testament, talks to Miriam Al Jamil about her debut novel and its origins, her creative process and her exciting second novel.

Read More “Interview with award-winning novelist, Kim Sherwood – ‘There is a boldness now in women’s writing, a refusal to apologise’”
Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Agatha Christie, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ali Smith, Anne Michael, Art Speigelman, Beyond Boxes, Deborah Levy, Fugitive Pieces, George Baker, holocaust, Kim Sherwood, Laurent Binet, Mark Rothko, Mass Observation Archive, Maus, Novel, Paul Klee, Riverrun, Testament, Zadie Smith

Interview with writer Julie Peakman: ‘I want to find women’s voices in history but also expose how badly we and marginalised men have been treated’

6th February 20206th February 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Author of a number of books relating to the history of sexuality, Julie Peakman’s new work, Licentious Worlds, offers a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire building around the world. Here, she talks to our arts contributor, Miriam Al Jamil, about her book and the research behind it.

Read More “Interview with writer Julie Peakman: ‘I want to find women’s voices in history but also expose how badly we and marginalised men have been treated’”
Posted in Books, Interviews, PoliticsTagged: colonialism, Empire, Feminism, history, Julie Peakman, Kathleen Wilson, Philippa Levine, Queer Studies, Reaktion Books, Robert Aldrich, Roy Porter, Sex, Sexuality and Eighteenth Century Culture, Shraddha Chatterjee

Eurydice Among the Shades

29th December 201929th January 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Throughout history Eurydice has been portrayed as a voiceless cypher next to the vocal brilliance of her husband Orpheus. But does the ENO’s 2019 programme of Gluck, Offenbach and Glass alter this? asks our writer Miriam Al Jamil.

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Posted in Arts, Dance, MusicTagged: Albrecht Dürer, Carol Ann Duffy, Decadence, English National Opera, Eurydice, Gluck, H. D., Hilda Doolittle, Jean Cocteau, Night / Shift, Offenbach, Orpheus, Ovid, Paris, Philip Glass, Studio Wayne McGregor, Virgil, Wayne McGregor

Women in the Arts: A Panel Discussion at Dulwich Picture Gallery

18th November 201918th November 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Sarah Crompton chairs a panel of curators, artists and the director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery to discuss the future of women in the art world, as reported by Arts writer Miriam Al Jamil.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World, Berthe Morisot, Black British Art, Carla van de Puttelaar, Dora Maar, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Edna Manley, Eric Gill, Jennifer Scott, Leonora Carrington, Linda Nochlin, Lisa Anderson, Lubaina Himid, Picasso, Rembrandt, Sarah Crompton, Turner Prize, Women in the Arts

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s Staging Schiele at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

8th November 20199th November 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

In Staging Schiele, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance brilliantly captures the work and life of Austrian artist Egon Schiele, and reframes the stories of his female models.

Read More “Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s Staging Schiele at the Queen Elizabeth Hall”
Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Contemporary dance, Dane Hurst, Egon Schiele, Erwin Osen, Fin de Siecle Vienna, Foteini Christofilopoulou, Moa Mandu, Nathan J. Timpano, Orlando Gough, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Southbank Centre, Staging Schiele, Vienna

Starting at the tail end of the snake: Islamic art, British Orientalism and contemporary responses at the British Museum and Watts Gallery

3rd November 20196th February 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Two exhibitions at the British Museum and Watts Gallery strive to re-contextualise European Orientalism and emphasise artistic relationships between east and west, but do they succeed? asks our arts writer Miriam Al Jamil.

Read More “Starting at the tail end of the snake: Islamic art, British Orientalism and contemporary responses at the British Museum and Watts Gallery”
Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Art Workers' Guild, British Museum, Edward Said, Ince Eviner, Ingres, Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, John Frederick Lewis, Marina Warner, Orientalism, Ottoman Empire, Picasso, Read Saadeh, The octagon Project, Watts Gallery

The Renaissance Nude at the Royal Academy, London

2nd June 20193rd June 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Renowned works by Titian, da Vinci, Dürer and Raphael feature in the Royal Academy’s recent exhibition, The Renaissance Nude, all of which throw light on the female as well as male gaze, observes our contributor Miriam al Jamil.

Read More “The Renaissance Nude at the Royal Academy, London”
Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Bronzino, Christianity, da Vinci, Dürer, Female Gaze, Isabella d'Este, John Berger, Kenneth Clark, Male gaze, Michelangelo, Raphael, Royal Academy, Samuel Johnson, The Renaissance Nude, Titian, Ways of Seeing

Edvard Munch: Love and Angst at The British Museum

15th May 201915th May 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Dangerous women, failed relationships, melancholic landscapes and the death of loved ones all haunt the work of artist Edvard Munch, as seen in the British Museum’s latest exhibition.

Read More “Edvard Munch: Love and Angst at The British Museum”
Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Artist, British Museum, Edvard Grieg, Edvard Munch, Expressionism, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Henrik Ibsen, James McNeil Whistler, Klimt, Max Klinger, Modernism, Norway, painting, Paul Gaugin, Printing, Schiele, Symbolists, The Scream, Wood Block Prints

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