Reading Rooms: Manifestations of Domestic Space in Visual Art and Literature, MPhil 2008 The completion of my MPhil through written and practice-based research in December 2008, marked a return to large-scale installations and the moving image, means used in undergraduate and postgraduate work and in early commissions, but abandoned for a long period of practice…
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Networks, Space and the Artist-Citizen, was written for the Q-Art Transitions Out of Fine Art Education Symposium @ Glasgow School of Art on Saturday 25th June 2016. Staff from across the UK gave their views on the role of fine art education today and share their approach to supporting students as they transition out of art school.…
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Published in Encounters with Osi, 2014 Even to breakfast he did not arrive like other people from bed, but from the Atlantic… or from the wood, where he had discovered some rare, beautiful bird…We knew only the zest of his company and his example. (Carey, 1941: 237&8) On teaching days Osi ascended the staircase at…
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peer reviewed paper presented at Occupation; Negotiation with Constructed Space Conference, Brighton University, July 2009 Abstract: The whiteroom, the sparse and solitary ‘waiting room’ of youth or later life will be examined through a consideration of two of Rachel Whiteread’s works, with reference to literary examples by Charlotte Brontë, Willa Cather, and Margaret Atwood. The paper is…
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Q-Art organise symposia and produce books and videos that feature interviews with further and higher education art staff from across a range of art schools and universities. Download two Bella Kerr interviews with Q-Art here: Q-Art interview with Bella Kerr | Bella Kerr & Amanda Roderick Q-art Interview ABOUTQ-Art are an events and publishing organisation…
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PUPAL SOUP(originally published for touchstone | Architecture in Wales, 2016) Last summer a cocoon appeared in Bute Park, spun between the trees in the shaded area near the Waterbus stop. TAPE was commissioned from Croatian artists’ collective Numen, through a collaboration between the RSPB and Migrations, who develop innovative arts projects in Wales and elsewhere.…
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