LITERARY FESTIVAL TALK 20 March 2024 - Owen Jones and the V&A

Oxford Literary Festival event
'Owen Jones and the V&A: Ornament for a Modern Age'
Wednesday 20 March, 12.00PM, Weston Lecture Theatre

Join curator and Lund Humphries author Olivia Horsfall Turner for a talk about the 19th-century architect, designer, illustrator and printer Owen Jones and his influence on art and design and on the early years of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Horsfall Turner looks at Jones’s relationship with the South Kensington Museum, which later became the V&A, from its inception in the 1850s until his death in 1874.

For more information and to book tickets visit the Oxford Literary Festival website.

Find out more about the book HERE.