Dr Emily Learmont
Dr Emily Learmont is an artist, art historian and arts educator, as well as a specialist in Scottish art and architecture.
Her doctoral thesis was on the nineteenth-century Edinburgh-born artist William Bell Scott (1811–90), and was undertaken as an AHRC-funded studentship with the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the National Galleries of Scotland. Her book, William Bell Scott’s Screen: A Pre-Raphaelite Romance, was published by the National Galleries of Scotland in 2023, and she curated an exhibition, William Bell Scott: The King’s Quair Mural, for the galleries in 2024.
Emily previously studied Fine Art (Drawing and Painting) at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, and has exhibited her work at the Royal Academy and Royal Scottish Academy.
She is a Teaching Fellow in the University of Edinburgh Centre for Open Learning, and an arts educator for the National Galleries of Scotland and a range of other organisations.