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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

Professor Lise Autogena gives keynote at Kunsthal Aarhus’ Forum for Directors – Wednesday 27 March 2019

Image courtesy of Lise Autogena - Lise Autogena at Kunsthal Aarhus - Keynote on 27 March 2019 + Kunsthal Aarhus logo

Professor Lise Autogena was Keynote Speaker at Kunsthal Aarhus‘ Forum for Directors on Wednesday 27 March, speaking to directors from a variety of institutions in Denmark, such as Aarhus Universitity, LEGO, Holst Lawyers and Galleri Grisk, gathered to participate in the Kunsthal’s new initiative Lederforum (Forum for Directors), which explored new insights into the structural challenges of integration. Speakers included Astrid Gade Nielsen (Vice President of Danish Crown) […]

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Penny McCarthy’s ‘Inspired by Leonardo’ talks at the Sheffield Millennium Gallery this April

Composite image of Millennium Gallery logo and two images - Leonardo da Vinci, Studies of water, c.1510-13. Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019 & Sailko [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)] - for Penny McCarthy's talks 'Inspired by Leonardo'

Sheffield Hallam University’s Reader in Fine Art Penny McCarthy will be holding two events this April at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery, coinciding with the Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing exhibition which continues until Monday 06 May 2019. Penny will be discussing her own approach and drawing practice and her experience of studying Leonardo’s work. Inspired by Leonardo Discussion Group: Drawing from the […]

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Penny McCarthy’s illustrations at performance of ‘Beware the Cat’ at the Royal Shakespeare Company – Saturday 06 July 2019

Image from Beware the Cat by Penny McCarthy & RSC logo

Beware the Cat  The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon Saturday 06 July, 5PM  Free but ticketed   This funny, satirical one-hour performance emerges from a collaborative process between artists and academics responding to the first ever English novel by William Baldwin. A tall tale of magical attempts to understand the language of cats, with unique artworks representing the cat-world by artist Penny […]

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Dr Becky Shaw named artist-in-residence at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects

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SHU Reader in Fine Art Dr Becky Shaw has been named artist-in-residence at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, a design-led architecture firm active in the education, housing, cultural, civic & urban design sectors with sustainable design at the heart of their work. Becky was chosen from more than 150 applications for the residency, which is part of a series of the SWA25 events series […]

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Call for Papers – “Centre for Contemporary Legend: Folklore on Screen”

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Following the success of the inaugural symposium launching the Centre for Contemporary Legend research group in 2018, we are hosting a larger, themed conference at “Folklore on Screen”, 13-14 September 2019. This conference will bring together scholars for two days of discussion about folklore in its many forms: its history, present and complex future in relation to cinema, television, photography, […]

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Professor Virginia Heath’s ‘Lift Share’ wins Best Drama Short Award at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival

Virginia Heath at award ceremony at Copenhagen Film Festival, and logo

We are pleased to announce that on Sunday 16 March, Professor Virginia Heath‘s Lift Share won the Best Drama Short Award at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival. The festival, hosted in order to promote and highlight filmmakers and individuals that have contributed to the global effort of making the world a more entertaining and competitive environment for filmmaking, screened each nominated film at Huset-Biograf in Copenhagen. You can […]

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‘Voyage Around My Room’ – Sharon Kivland featured in exhibition at the Athens Municipality Art Centre from Monday 18 March 2019

Banner image for 'Voyage around my room' exhibition featuring Sharon Kivland in Athens

Voyage Around My Room Athens Municipality Art Centre Monday 18 March – Sunday 21 April 2019 Opening event on Monday 18 March, 7PM Free admittance The Voyage Around My Room exhibition embarks from Virginia Woolf’s legendary essay A Room of One’s Own, written in 1926, and its relevance to newly introduced sociological and political concepts like digital feminism and the #metoo movement. The […]

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Professor Keith Wilson interviews Lisa Le Feuvre in The Brooklyn Rail

Brooklyn Rail logo (taken from Brooklyn Rail)

C3RI Professor of Sculpture Keith Wilson was recently featured in conversation with curator and inaugural Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation Lisa Le Feuvre for the The Brooklyn Rail. The two spoke about the necessity of a clear mission statement, the importance of the word “creative,” and what it means for a foundation to honour an artist’s work at the James Gallery at the […]

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