Dr Louise Hardiman

Dr Louise Hardiman has a PhD in Art History from the University of Cambridge (2013) and has taught at PACE since 2021. She researches late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art and the rise of modernism, women's art and design, the Arts and Crafts movement, northern landscape painting, and the history of British-Russian cultural exchange.

Louise works as an independent consultant, writer, and academic. She is developing her thesis and recent research into a monograph on women artists and a monograph on the history of British-Russian artistic exchange, both focused on the Russian imperial period (1712-1917).

Her roles beyond PACE include Visiting Research Fellow at Kingston University (2024-25) and Member-at-Large for the Society for Historians of East European and Russian Art (SHERA). She taught for the University of Cambridge Department of Art History between 2012 and 2021 and, since then, she has developed new undergraduate and short courses on Russian and Ukrainian art for PACE. Museum work includes cataloguing Russian decorative art for Dorich House Museum, Kingston University (2022-24, funded by ArtFund and the Decorative Arts Society) and lecturing for the National Portrait Gallery, Watts Gallery, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, among others.  

Louise has personal experience of career change, having previously worked as a commercial lawyer.