Nicola Gordon Bowe

Nicola (Nikki) Gordon Bowe Hon FMGP (1948 – 4 January 2018) was an art historian, author and educator.

[1][4] Bowe was born in 1948 in Stafford, England to London councillor Richard Gordon and headmistress Elizabeth Smedley and raised in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

[6] She studied French and Italian as an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin, earning a BA (honours) and later obtaining a MA and PhD in art history.

Bowe's prominence as an art historian is the result of her exhaustive research, writing and advocacy for the long forgotten work of two remarkable stained glass artists, Harry Clarke and Wilhelmina Geddes.

Her investigation into Clarke's life and work was the beginning of a long career of comprehensive research into the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland.

[9] Bowe also devoted many years to investigating the life and art of Wilhelmina Geddes, a little known, Ulster-born stained glass artist.