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Searching for the ethos of a lost art school. (2022)
Book Chapter
WINTER, J. 2022. Searching for the ethos of a lost art school. In Ingold, T. (ed.) Knowing from the inside: cross-disciplinary experiments with matters of pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 165-188. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350217171.ch-008

This search is motivated by an abiding belief in the possibilities of art schools. It is a response to many conversations over recent years around the future of art education and the significant role it has played in weaving the social fabric. I cont... Read More about Searching for the ethos of a lost art school..

Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. (2022)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2022. Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. In Leuzzi, L., Partridge, S. and Shemilt, E. (eds.) Richard Demarco: the Italian connection. Barnet: John Libbey, chapter 7, pages 105-113.

During the Cold War period, relations between the UK and Yugoslavia were couched entirely in the frames of politics, economics or military history; in the later years of socialist Yugoslavia, from the later seventies onwards, links were also develope... Read More about Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s..

Passing the torch. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Passing the torch. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 25 November - 2 December 2022, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

The "Fired Up" event on the 30th October 2022 was the first communal firing of the on-campus wood-fired kiln that had been jointly constructed by both staff and students. The works resulting from this firing were then presented at the "Passing the To... Read More about Passing the torch. [Exhibition].

Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
CAMPBELL, A., CONNOR, F., MACPHERSON, J., MCKIE, M., MILNE, J., MORRIS, K.A., MUNDAY, M., PARTRIDGE LOVE, H., RILEY, C., SHEARER-ANDERSON, A., VAN LOON, J. and WILKINSON, C. 2022. Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 4-11 November 2022, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

This exhibition featured works by support staff at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University. The works represent a wide variety of artforms: painting, photography, illustration, cartooning, ceramics, jewellery, costume, textiles, film and sound... Read More about Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition].

In conversation: a poetics of empathy: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. (2022)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2022. In conversation: a poetics of empathy: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. Women eco artists dialog magazine [online], 13: the art of empathy. Available from: https://directory.weadartists.org/in-conversation-a-poetics-of-empathy

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison are pioneers in the creative development of art and ecology. It was Helen who read Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a critical influence in their decision in the early 1970s to do no work that did not in some wa... Read More about In conversation: a poetics of empathy: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison..

Embedding sustainability within the curriculum at Gray's School of Art. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
AMIES, L. and STEED, J. 2022. Embedding sustainability within the curriculum at Gray's School of Art. Presented at the 2022 RGU annual learning and teaching conference (RGU LTC 2022): enhancing for impact, 21 October 2022, Aberdeen, UK.

The paper discusses a project that aimed to develop academic and student understanding of sustainability at Gray's School of Art. The project sits in the context of RGU's Net Zero actions, with the objective of embedding net zero narratives within RG... Read More about Embedding sustainability within the curriculum at Gray's School of Art..

Fired up: the ancient art of ceramics celebrated at Gray's first communal wood firing. [Blog post] (2022)
Digital Artefact
MAURILLON, C., MORRIS, K. and WILCOCK, M. 2022. Fired up: the ancient art of ceramics celebrated at Gray's first communal wood firing. [Blog post]. Posted on RGView [online], 12 October 2022. Available from: https://bit.ly/3Y5yHVX

This post was created in order to promote the first communal firing of an on-campus wood kiln that was jointly built by staff and students. In the post, staff members Kevin Morris and Matthew Wilcock talk about their practice and research in ceramics... Read More about Fired up: the ancient art of ceramics celebrated at Gray's first communal wood firing. [Blog post].

Painted conversations, exhibition 2: Sarah Longworth-West and Marcus Murison. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Painted conversations, exhibition 2: Sarah Longworth-West and Marcus Murison. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 1-6 October 2022, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh.

The "Painted Conversations" exhibition series is organised and facilitated by Lyndsey Gilmour and Peter Chalmers, whose collaborative partnership has formed through their roles as lecturers and early-career researchers in the Painting Department at G... Read More about Painted conversations, exhibition 2: Sarah Longworth-West and Marcus Murison. [Exhibition].

Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed? (2022)
Thesis
ZEISKE, C.F. 2022. Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed? Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-2071859

While a lot has been written in the past two decades about the impact of participatory arts on people in urban places, my practice-based research aims to fill the gap in relation to the rural context - often places with little traditional arts provis... Read More about Transformational fieldwork, or, How might a sustainable cultural provision in the rural/small town context be framed?.

Traces: how art and oil can mix. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
KELLIE, C. 2022. Traces: how art and oil can mix. Presented at the 2022 Petrocultures conference (Petrocultures 2022): transformations, 24-27 August 2022, Stavanger, Norway.

Heavy industry impacts and shapes the communities that surround it. With North Sea oil, that industry lies mostly over the horizon and its workforce comes from around the world to form a temporal community. This invisibility and the logistical barrie... Read More about Traces: how art and oil can mix..