Bibliography

My publications are also listed on my ORCiD: 0000-0003-2219-109, and some of my author manuscripts and other outputs are available via the British Library Research Repository.

Book

The Visionary Art of William Blake: Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018; T&T Clark, 2019). ISBN (hardback): 9780567694171

Digital projects and publications

‘“Most Sacred Things​”: A Museum of Relationships‘ – advisor to pilot digital edition of the correspondence of William Hayley at the Fitzwilliam Museum (2021).

‘V is for Visionary‘ – mini talk  for the Whitworth’s A–Z of Creativity series (2020).

‘The Macklin Bible‘ – curator of virtual exhibition using the ArtUK Curations tool (2020).

‘Bible Illustrations‘ – editor and author of TEI metadata for Manchester Digital Collections (2020).

Matthew 9:1–8; Mark 2:1–12; Luke 5:17–26 – The Healing of the Paralysed Man – curator of virtual exhibition for the Visual Commentary on Scripture (2021).

Genesis 1:3–5 – Let There Be Light – curator of virtual exhibition for the Visual Commentary on Scripture (2019).

John 5:1–18 – The Pool of Bethesda – curator of virtual exhibition for the Visual Commentary on Scripture (2019).

2 Corinthians 3:1–11 – Letter and Spirit – curator of virtual exhibition for the Visual Commentary on Scripture (2018).

Chichester Cathedral Art Pilgrimage Trail – contributor and co-curator with Ben Quash for Alight Art and the Sacred app (2017). Free on iTunes and Google Play

William Blake’s Cottage Virtual Tour – commissioned as curator and author by the Big Blake Project; created by Jason Hedges (2017).

Articles and chapters

‘Letter from Rochester’, in Art and Christianity 115 (2023), pp. 18–19. ISSN: 1746-6229

‘Collaboration in the Macklin Bible’ for an edited volume Participation, Collaboration, Association, co-edited with co-contributors (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2023).

‘“The Great Bowyer Bible”: Robert Bower and the Macklin Bible’ Journal of Illustration 8.1, special issue ‘The Unique Copy: (Extra-)Illustration, Word and Image, Book History, and Print Culture’, ed. Christina Ionescu (2021), pp. 51–80. DOI: 10.1386/jill_00038_1

‘“As the Eye Is Formed:” Seeing as Christ in Blake’s Bartimaeus’, in The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Elizabeth Ludlow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. 39–52. ISBN: 978-3-030-40081-1  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-40082-8_3

‘William Blake: Visionary artist’, in Seventy-Second Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts [programme book] (Snape Maltings, 2019), pp. 35–38.

‘An “apostle of futurity”: William Blake as herald of a universal religious worldview’, in Visual Culture in Britain 19.3 (2018), pp. 321–334. DOI: 10.1080/14714787.2018.1523685

‘Re-viewing William Blake’s Paradise Regained (c.1816–1820)’, in Religion and the Arts 22:1–2 (2018), pp. 16–39. DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02201001

‘“On the Stocks”: Biblical watercolours from the Felpham period’, in William Blake in Sussex: Visions of Albion, ed. Andrew Loukes (London: The National Trust in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018), pp. 33–45. ISBN: 9781911300298​

‘Controversial Moderns – The Piper Tapestry, Chichester Cathedral, 1966‘, in Art and Christianity 91 (2017), pp. 16–17. ISSN: 1746-6229

‘Citizens of “London” as Members of Christ’s Divine Body in William Blake’s Biblical Illustrations’, in Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion, eds. Ben Quash, Aaron Rosen and Chloë Reddaway (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017). ISBN: 9781784536619

‘Conversion by Commission: Eric Gill and the Westminster Stations’, in Eric Gill: Work is Sacred, ed. Martin John Broadley (Bury: Koinonia Ltd for the Catholic Archives Society, 2013). ISBN: 9780860880462

Encyclopædia and dictionary entries

‘Macklin Bible: Apocalyptic and Millenarian Illustrations’ for the Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, co-edited by Alastair Lockhart and James Crossley (Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, 2021).

‘Martin, John‘, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 17 (Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2019). ISBN: 2193-2840

‘The Kinship of Jesus, Visual Arts‘, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 15 (Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2017). ISBN: 2193-2840

‘The Last Words of Jesus, Visual Arts‘, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception 15 (Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, 2017). ISBN: 2193-2840

Reviews

‘Joost Joustra, Sin: the Art of Transgression‘, book review for the CenSAMM blog (18 December 2020).

‘William Blake‘, exhibition review in Art and Christianity 100 (2019). ISSN: 1746-6229

‘William Blake, Tate Britain‘, exhibition review for the CenSAMM blog (19 November 2019).

‘William Blake and the Age of Aquarius: A Round Table Discussion’ [book review with Jason Whittaker, Colin Trodd and Douglas Field], in Visual Culture in Britain 19.3 (2018), pp. 393–400. DOI: 10.1080/14714787.2018.1525308

‘John Piper: The Fabric of Modernism‘, exhibition review for Transpositions (2016).

‘David Jones: Vision and Memory‘, exhibition review in Art and Christianity 85 (2016), p. 11. ISSN: 1746-6229

‘William Blake: Apprentice and Master‘, exhibition review in Art and Christianity 81 (2015), p. 9. ISSN: 1746-6229

‘Genesis: William Blake’s Last Illuminated Work, edited by Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, with an introduction by Robert R. Wark. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 2012. ISBN:978-0-87328-247-5’, book review in Visual Culture in Britain 15.3 (2014), pp. 366–368. DOI: 10.1080/14714787.2014.945132

‘Quatre Bouches. Eisler Trio. The William Blake Experience‘, CD review for the Blake Society blog (4 March 2014).

Reports

‘Output in Focus: The Visionary Art of William Blake‘, in Arts Research 12 [University of Manchester magazine] (2019), p. 5.

‘Art, Pilgrimage and the Year of the Bible‘, in Faith in Sussex 13 (2017), p. 26. ISSN: 2056-3310

‘Naomi Billingsley, first Bishop Otter Scholar for Theology and the Arts‘, in Art and Christianity 87 (2016). p. 19. ISSN: 1746-6229

‘A Spiritual View: Reflecting on Religious Art’, in Faith in Sussex 11 (2016), p. 33. ISSN: 2056-3310

‘Art and Faith in Sussex’, in ArtServe (Spring/Summer 2016), pp. 12–13.

‘Golden Anniversary for Bright Inspiration’, in Faith in Sussex 10 (2016), p. 31. ISSN: 2056-3310

‘Slow Art in the Cathedral’, Slow Art Day blog (February 2016).

‘Inspired by Art’, in Faith in Sussex 9 (2016), pp. 16–17. ISSN: 2056-3310

Blog posts

My own blog, NAI Billingsley, has posts on a variety of topics, written between 2013 and 2018.

The Lives of Letters network blog documents the work of this network that I co-founded with Florence Impens, Katharina Keim, Alice Marples and Oscar Seip, and includes several posts by me (2017–2019).

The Visionary Artists Visionary Objects network blog ​documents the work of this network that I co-founded with Lieke Wijnia (2018–).

‘Teaching Spotlight: Art in Medieval Books‘, Art History UoM Index (13 December 2019).

‘What will we be reading in the year 2367?‘, The John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog (4 January 2018).

‘Curating a Cottage‘, Blake Fest blog (18 September 2017).

‘Q&A with Naomi Billingsley‘, Hell’s Printing Press: The Blog of the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly (4 April 2017).

‘Reflections on Art at Chichester Cathedral: Two takes on the Baptism of Christ’, Transpositions (21 December 2016).

‘Reflections on Art at Chichester Cathedral: The Piper Tapestry’, Transpositions (23 November 2016).

‘Reflections on Art at Chichester Cathedral: The Lazarus Reliefs’, Transpositions (3 October 2016).

‘Image of the Month: William Blake, Sealing the Stone and Setting a Watch (c.1800–1803)‘, Romantic Illustration Network blog (24 July 2015).

‘Image of the Month: William Blake, ‘Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre’ (c.1805)’, Romantic Illustration Network blog (13 February 2015).