Nick Walkley
PhD Student
Nick Walkley researches the effects of the circulatory reproduction of cultural heritage objects. His study, supervised by professor Mari Lending and co-supervised by professor Albena Yaneva, takes the portal of Urnes Stave Church as a starting point for exploring changing attitudes to reproductions through digital techniques. Tentatively entitled Portal Propagations. Reproduction, Reception, and Reconstruction in the Life of the Urnes Portal, his dissertation is part of the OCCAS project Provenance Projected: Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity.
Nick graduated from Manchester School of Architecture with BA(Hons) and BArch. His 2008 thesis “Towards Digital Ornament” was subsequently nominated by the school for the RIBA Presidents Medals. Following employment in UK architectural practice, he completed a master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music and worked as a professional musician London. A deep-rooted fascination for shared North Sea culture led to a move to Norway in 2016, and to architectural history scholarship, where he continues to explore interests in medieval architecture and its reception, digital humanities, monumentalisation, and museology.
