Tag: Becky Shaw

Dr Becky Shaw in university and gallery partnership to receive UK’s first AHRC Exhibition Fund award for ‘Things of the Least’.

image copyright Manchester Art Gallery/Ben Blackall

Fine Art Reader Dr Becky Shaw is lead artist researcher in a team that has secured the only 2023 UK Exhibition Fund grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Things of the Least will be an experiment in ‘exhibition-making’, exploring how very young children engage with the material world. It builds on Becky’s previous collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University’s […]

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20 years of practice-led PhDs in art, design and media

Sketch of prosthetic hand design by Dr Graham Whiteley (2000)

Our long history of practice-led PhDs in art, design and media goes back to the earliest days of the ADMRC over 20 years ago. More than 40 students have completed PhD projects, many of whom now have well established international careers as artists, designers, craft practitioners, researchers and educators. The first practice-led design PhD at Sheffield Hallam University was awarded […]

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JUSTHEAT Summer Research Internship

JUSTHEAT’s UK team are recruiting for a paid internship at Sheffield Hallam University to support JUSTHEAT. The project (6 week full-time or 12 week part-time) will deliver a visual analysis of post-war media campaigns that promoted heating systems / transition. Justheat: Looking backwards to move forwards is a three-year interdisciplinary, pan-European project to explore how major changes to home heating […]

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Justheat: Looking backwards to move forwards

Thermal House Image credit Becky Shaw (Justheat)

Dr Becky Shaw (Reader in Fine Art in CCRI and Postgraduate Research Tutor for ADMRC) begins role as lead artist and co-I on the Justheat research project, and five-artists are appointed to the pan-European research team . Justheat: Looking backwards to move forwards is a three-year interdisciplinary, pan-European project to explore how major changes to home heating and heating technology […]

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Giant Hand Eats Building from the Inside

Giant Hand Eats Building

‘Giant Hand Eats Building from the Inside’ and ‘Loop Until Escape’ launched at Sarah Wigglesworth Architecture (SWA) September 19th 2022 Becky Shaw’s work developed from a recent artist residency at a firm of architects is now on show. Following a residency at Sarah Wigglesworth Architecture in 2019-20, Becky was invited to show the body of work in the context of Stock […]

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Becky Shaw produces live research works for national educational psychologist and SENCO conference

Odd

Between 2018-2021 Becky was lead artist and co-investigator on the AHRC funded project, Odd: Feeling Different in the World of Education. ‘Odd’ involved working in close collaboration with one Manchester school in a team that included art research, educational research and visual anthropology, to explore children’s experiences of not fitting in at school. Despite decades of educational interventions around inclusion […]

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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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Dr Becky Shaw’s work with the SHU Art & Design PhD community included in new Routledge International Handbook for Practice-Based Research

'Title, formatted in Sentence......' a project exploring artist researcher identity through re-imagining the research poster. Exhibited, as part of Art & Design HPO Degree show 2018. Including posters by Johnathan Michaels, Jo Ray, Rachel Smith, Sarah 'Smizz' Smith, Diana Taylor, Julia Walters. Image credit Sarah 'Smizz' Smith.

‘Title, formatted in Sentence……’ a project exploring artist researcher identity through re-imagining the research poster. Exhibited, as part of Art & Design HPO Degree show 2018. Including posters by Johnathan Michaels, Jo Ray, Rachel Smith, Sarah ‘Smizz’ Smith, Diana Taylor, Julia Walters. Image credit Sarah ‘Smizz’ Smith.   The new Routledge International Handbook for Practice Based Research (editor Craig Vear) […]

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