Member Profile: Claudia Kinmonth
21 June 2018Dr Kinmonth author of two influential books 'Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950' and 'Irish Rural Interiors in Art' was admitted to the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.
Claudia Kinmonth, studied furniture and design history at the Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum and completed a PhD on Irish vernacular furniture. She is an independent scholar, and the guest curator of exhibitions in the Crawford Gallery, Cork and the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston. Her Irish country furniture 1700–1950 (1993) and Irish rural interiors in art (2006) are seminal works.