Miriam Gill has a long association with the Institute of Continuing Education and is currently teaching on medieval art on the Certificate programmes. She obtained a doctorate from the Conservation of Wall Paintings Department of the Courtauld Institute of Art. A native of Leicester, she read modern history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Late medieval wall paintings are her field of study and she adopts a contextual approach, seeking to relate this large and relatively neglected corpus of paintings to late medieval theology, liturgy, literature and drama and society.
Miriam is an experienced Adult Education lecturer, teaching for Oxford University Department of Continuing Education and teaching non-accredited courses at the Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, Pro Artium and the WEA. She relishes researching and delivering courses on all areas of Art History.
Miriam knows first hand the life-enhancing and life-changing power of adult education. She is a founder member of Leicester Vaughan College, a community benefit society created to continue the provision of part-time, accessible Higher Education in Leicester. This fuels her deep commitment to continue to look more closely and think creatively about visual culture in the inspiring company of adult students.
Dr Gill's teaching style is focused on images, interactive and multi-disciplinary. She enjoys the opportunity to introduce students to art in its original context, particularly wall paintings, and to help students to 'get their eye in'. She also enjoys the wealth of illuminating comparisons and iconographic detail which can be 'unpicked' through the comparative study of projected images.
Over past years, Miriam has co-edited two CD ROMs for Christianity and Culture, University of York. She wrote about painted churches as part of a web project for the Churches Conservation Trust. Dr Gill is currently writing a chapter on the representation of women in medieval Christian Art for Routledge, a Bibliography for OUP and an article on the Three Living and Three Dead with her colleague, Dr Ellie Pridgeon. She examined the recently discovered wall paintings in the north transept at Ely Cathedral and these and their manuscript context will be part of a paper to be published by the Ecclesiological Society. She has worked with the Medieval Coventry organisation in the context of the 2021 City of Culture celebrations and will work with the Guild Chapel Stratford on conservation and interpretation works associated with their mural ostensibly portraying the Whore of Babylon.
