SPAB Ireland Vernacular Buildings Campaign 2021

Wallpaper in Irish rural buildings

Pre-recorded Lecture 8 - Wallpaper in Irish rural buildings

Date: 
27/03/2022 - 30/06/2022
Audience: 
General interest,
Location: 
Online
Ireland
Price: 

£5 - Members (€5.95)

£6 - Non-members (€7.15)

Event details

Lecture 8: Wallpaper in Irish rural buildings

Lecture description:

Wallpaper has been made in Ireland since the early eighteenth century. Its use in the country mansions and city houses of the wealthy classes has been the subject of study and is well documented. But beyond the demesne wall and the city suburbs, the history of wallpaper in small towns and farmhouses of Ireland is less well understood.  Using recent case studies, this talk will look at the evidence for wallpaper use in rural buildings, linking its demographic spread to the development of the industry, from hand block printing to the establishment of the Kildare Wallpaper Factory in the 1930s. Ways of identifying and dating wallpapers will be explained, and issues which arise in the conservation and reproduction of wallpapers will be examined.

 

About the speaker:

David Skinner

David Skinner is a wallpaper maker, conservator and researcher living in County Leitrim. He is the author of ‘Wallpaper in Ireland, 1700-1900’, published in 2014 by Churchill House Press.

David Skinner Wallpapers, established in 1990, makes hand screen-printed wallpapers based on historic examples, supplying customers in Ireland, the U.K., Europe and the U.S.A. Recent wallpaper installations include Carton House, Co. Kildare, Morris Jumel  Mansion, Manhattan, Jane Austen House, Alton, Hampshire, The Dublin Tenement Museum, Henrietta Street. 

David’s work over the past thirty years has been informed by continuous research into the history of the Irish wallpaper trade and the use of wallpaper in this country. Surveying historic buildings, retrieving and archiving examples of historic paper and undertaking conservation of historic papers where they survive have been a major component of the studio’s practice.

In 2020 David donated his personal archive of over 250 examples of historic wallpapers from Ireland the Office of Public Works. A permanent exhibition of a selection of these opened in Kilkenny Castle in 2021.

 

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About SPAB Ireland

SPAB Ireland was established in 2017 as the inaugural Irish branch of the SPAB. Following the return of several recent Irish SPAB Fellows and Scholars to live and work in Ireland, the lack of an SPAB presence has been acutely felt. After a successful open meeting in February 2017, we have established a committee and have started planning how we will bring the SPAB philosophy and ethos to Ireland.

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