Winter Book Night

Please join us for Book Night at the Paul Mellon Centre, where we will celebrate our latest publications by asking authors to discuss their research and answer questions about their books.

Guests will be able to hear short presentations by each of our authors, which we hope will give a lively and engaging snapshot of the exciting new research that we have recently published.

The evening will finish with a drink's reception.

Confirmed authors taking part in PMC Book Night:

Esther Chadwick, author of The Radical Print: Arts and Politics in Late Eighteenth Centry Britain

Mark Laird, author of The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations (remoting in)

Ian Dudley, author of Aubrey Williams: Art, Histories, Futures

Author Biographies

Esther Chadwick is Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Chadwick is a specialist in eighteenth-century British art. She studied Art History at the University of Cambridge and completed her doctorate at Yale University in 2016. She has held fellowships at the Paul Mellon Centre in London, the Huntington Library, California, the Lewis Walpole Library, Connecticut, and in 2013-2016 was Paul Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington D.C. Before joining the Courtauld, she was a curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.

Mark Laird is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and former faculty member at Harvard University. He is the author of The Flowering of the Landscape Garden and A Natural History of English Gardening – recipient of an Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award. He has been historic planting consultant to Painshill Park Trust, English Heritage and Strawberry Hill Trust.

Ian Dudley is a visiting fellow in art history in the School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex.

Host or Publisher Paul Mellon Centre