Nigel Llewellyn

About:

Trained as an art historian at Universities of East Anglia and Cambridge and by Baxandall and Gombrich at the Warburg Institute.  Taught art history for many years at University of Sussex before moving to Arts and Humanities Research Council to direct their Research Centres programme and then to Tate in 2007 to establish the Research Department.  Areas of teaching and research interest are early modern British and European art and architecture; historiography and methodology and monumental and commemorative art.  I have curated exhibitions at the V&A London on "The Art of Death" (1991-2) and "Baroque" (2009).  A major antiquarian study of the "Church Monuments of East Sussex" will be published next month.  Alongside my current responsibilities, leading and supporting scholarly research across Tate's four gallery sites, I am currently managing a research team working at the art museum on the history of the London art schools, c.1960-2010 and participating in another project, "Court, Country, City", which is about British art c.1700 in relation to which I have particular responsibility for an experimental lexical project called "Art Words".  As I came to understand many years later, I first became interested in interdisciplinarity, aged about 17, when I realised that the lute music of John Dowland was of "The Renaissance", which I had previously understood to be a movement in the visual arts.