Chiara Harrison Lambe is a PhD candidate in Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, co-supervised at the University of Limerick. Her dissertation, which has the working title ‘Stella Steyn (1907–1987): Figuration and Female Identity’, will be the first monograph on understudied Irish-Jewish painter and printmaker Stella Steyn, notable for being the only Irish artist to have studied at the Bauhaus in Germany. This project explores how multiple types of marginalization—against her pluralization of style, migrant status, ethnicity, and gender—worked together to ensure Steyn’s posthumous omission from the conventional art historical canon, with a focus on her post-war self-portraits and images of women. In 2022, Chiara was awarded the National Gallery of Ireland’s inaugural Sarah Cecilia Harrison Essay Prize for her essay ‘Stella Steyn – A Name to Remember’.
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