Dr Nicola Baird
Art Historian, Researcher and Curator

Dr Nicola Baird Art Historian, Researcher and CuratorDr Nicola Baird Art Historian, Researcher and CuratorDr Nicola Baird Art Historian, Researcher and Curator

Dr Nicola Baird
Art Historian, Researcher and Curator

Dr Nicola Baird Art Historian, Researcher and CuratorDr Nicola Baird Art Historian, Researcher and CuratorDr Nicola Baird Art Historian, Researcher and Curator
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    • Research/Projects
    • Exhibitions
    • Publications
    • Conferences and Talks
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  • Research/Projects
  • Exhibitions
  • Publications
  • Conferences and Talks
  • Funding

Publications

Book cover of 'Becoming Gustav Metzger' with abstract art.

Monographs

Coming soon...

Edited Books

Nicola Baird ed., Fred Uhlman (London: Burgh House, 2018) - purchased by Croft Castle, The National Trust and The Pallant House Gallery Bookshop.


Nicola Baird ed., Czech Routes to Britain (London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 2019)

  

Nicola Baird ed., Becoming Gustav Metzger (London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, 2021) - available to buy online at  https://benuri.org/publications/50-becoming-gustav-metzger-uncovering-the-early-years-1945-59/and and previously sold in the Barbican Gallery shop.


Nicola Baird ed. - more details coming soon....

Book Chapters

Co-authored chapter about Sidney Hunt's little magazine Ray to be included in a publication about Gesamtkunstwerke edited by Professor Sascha Bru to be published by Manchester University Press.


Nicola Baird, 'Reframing Folk Art as Participatory Art: Agency, Change and Emancipation in the Work of Tereza Buskova,'  Umění/Art (Masaryk University, 2026) https://kramerius.lib.cas.cz/view/uuid:d9acbbbd-4e43-484c-b706-2c43f45b346c?page=uuid:d9acbbbd-4e43-484c-b706-2c43f45b346c_410


 Nicola Baird, '“Act or Perish”: Gustav Metzger on war, pollution and waste,' The Art of Activism, ed. by Jitka Hlaváčková  (Prague: Prague City Gallery, 2026)

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Nicola Baird, ‘“in itself a work of art”: Word-Image Encounters in Ray: Art Miscellany’, Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022)


Nicola Baird. "“Who’s Sidney Hunt? … He Was a Homosexual”: Artist, Editor, and Forgotten Pioneer of Queer Art and of the European Avant-Garde in Britain", Journal of Avant-Garde Studies 3, 1-2 (2023): 201-228 


Nicola Baird,  'Heritage and Identity, Museums and Memory: The Case of David Bomberg and the Sarah Rose Collection at London South Bank University',  AMPS Conference Proceedings Journal Series, ISSN 2398-9467 (2024)


Nicola Baird, 'Sid Treeby’s Caricature of the Futurist Exhibition at the Sackville Gallery in London (1912),' The International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (De Gruyter, 2024)


Nicola Baird, 'Claude Flight: the "Only True Futurist" in Britain?,' The International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (De Gruyter, 2026) 

Essays and Book Reviews

Nicola Baird, 'Introduction', Nicola Baird and James Hyman, Jo Spence: Gypsies and Travellers 1970s (Café Royal Books, 2017)


Nicola Baird, ‘Opening up and reaching out, my hopes for the future of modernist studies: the case of David Bomberg, the Ben Uri Gallery, and the Sarah Rose collections’, The Modernist Review, 41 (June-July 2022)


Nicola Baird,  One Who Hears the Cries of the World: Tereza Bušková, Stryx Gallery, July 2023


Nicola Baird, 'Woman’s Weeklyand Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918—1958,' The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Pennsylvania University Press, 2024)

Auction Catalogue Essays and Exhibition Reviews

Christie’s London and Paris sale catalogues- Modern British and Irish Art, Impressionist and Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Departments


British Czech and Slovak Association Newsletter


Canvas Magazine


Harper’s Bazaar Art


Ocula


Photomonitor


Sorbet Magazine


Times Literary Supplement 

Editorial Work

Peer-reviewer for Networking Knowledge, MeCCSA Journal, 2020-present


Editorial Assistant, International Yearbook of Futurism Studies (De Gruyter), 2022-present


Section Editor, Open Cultural Studies (De Gruyter), 2024-present

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