Tag: art and design

Professor Lise Autogena speaks at ‘Art, Community & Identities in the Arctic – Best Practices for Children, Young People & Families’ conference

Professor Lise Autogena speaks at ‘Art, Community & Identities in the Arctic – Best Practices for Children, Young People & Families’ conference at Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland (10- 11 May 2023). Lise Autogena, Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Art, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and founder/director of Narsaq International Research Station: Speaking across the Sea – an art project of children’s participation in […]

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CCRI Seminar Series – ‘Workshopping Otherwise: Decolonisation, Alternative Realities, and the Design School’ with Layla Gharib (CCRI PhD Candidate based in the ADMRC/Art & Design)

Banner image for CCRI seminar featuring CCRI logo, Workshop Image III - CCRI PhD Candidate in ADMRC/Art & Design - Layla Gharib - and Layla Gharib - Courtesy of Layla Gharib

Please join us on Wednesday 17 May between 1300-1400 for our next CCRI-wide seminar as part of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute Seminar Series, where we will be hearing from CCRI PhD Candidate based in the ADMRC/Art & Design Layla Gharib. Workshopping Otherwise: Decolonisation, Alternative Realities, and the Design School This talk will explore speculative workshopping as a world-building research method […]

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‘She Sings Of Murder and Love’: Professor Virginia Heath’s new documentary feature research project selected for International DOK.fest Munich Masters Pitch

Professor Virginia Heath has been selected for the prestigious International DOK.fest Munich Masters Pitch on 6th May with her new documentary feature research project, ‘She Sings of Murder and Love’. She is also presenting the project with Composer David McAulay in the competitive Composer’s Pitch on 7th May. The research project has been developed with funding from Screen Scotland; the […]

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Updates from Associate Professor Kaisu Koski for March 2023

Associate Professor Kaisu Koski’s films are being screened at the following film festivals: City Reindeer (2022) in the National Competition of the 53rd edition of Tampere Film Festival, March 8-12 in Finland, and in the Official selection of the FAUNA Tepoztlán Animal Festival, March 23-26, in Mexico. Permafrost refreeze: The Reindeer factor (2022) at Academia Film Olomouc AFO58 Official Selection – Short Film Competition, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Lunchtime […]

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Dr David Swann invited to attend the first in a series of ‘Plans for Growth: Industry and Skills’ Roundtable discussions hosted by Policy Connect

Policy Connect

Research Lead for the Department of Art & Design Dr David Swann has been invited to attend the first in a series of ‘Plans for Growth: Industry and Skills’ Roundtable discussions hosted by Policy Connect. The first event scheduled for 22 November at the House of Lords, will be a larger roundtable meeting with Labour’s Bill Esterson MP, Shadow Business […]

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Penny McCarthy’s exhibition ‘Cloud Falls in Love With Mortal’ opens on 8th October 2022

Penny McCarthy, Cloud falls in love with mortal, pencil on paper. Photo Hugo Glendinning.

Solo exhibition by the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award Winner 2019 at Hastings Contemporary. Cloud falls in love with mortal is a solo exhibition by Penny McCarthy and comprises an extensive series of graphite drawings made between 2019 and 2022. The artist received the biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award in 2019. The catalyst for these drawings was a newspaper image from […]

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Hester Reeve presenting at Show and Tell on How to Dwell in the House of Art – Wednesday 27th July 11:00AM

FTI-Io Flat Time House & /origin\forward/slash\ Free event  Wednesday  July 27th  11 am  BST  2022 on Zoom.   How can art be a location or place of ‘dwelling’ in our contemporary situation and why should it matter to us? What does it mean to be ‘at-home-in-the-world’ and if, as Heidegger maintained, we are suffering from the ‘plight of homelessness,’ does […]

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Dr Becky Shaw Researcher Blog – Becky Shaw and Emma Bolland (PhD candidate and Fine Art Associate Lecturer) report on participation in the National Association of Fine Art Education (NAFAE) annual conference, and their paper on oHPo Radio

oHPo Radio

NAFAE explores and champions the changing terrain of fine art education in the UK. The focus of this years’ conference (May 29th) was Making Communities and Making with Communities, looking at the significance of community both within fine art education and in the communities that fine art education interacts with and builds. The day was intense and packed with really […]

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Dr Becky Shaw Researcher Blog – Running across subsidence: The ordinary failure of public art and public infrastructure services

Becky Shaw Putting myself in every pipe in the City of Calgary. Live work September 2017. Image credit Becky Shaw

Becky’s Shaw’s exploration of the unstable space of commissioning included in new book on public art and failure. When an artist is commissioned to explore an institution or organisation the pretext is often to ‘celebrate:’ to communicate complicated ‘hidden’ work to a public; to reach a ‘hard to reach’ community; to give visibility or to find a form to express societal […]

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