All Outputs (536)

An empirically grey area. [Solo exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
CHALMERS, P. 2019. An empirically grey area. Solo exhibition, 16 November - 8 December 2019, Look Again Project Space, Aberdeen.

How can we approach making in the face of a threat from meaninglessness? Beyond a question of whether one should be making at all, Peter's work is centred around a question of what and how to make, and whether the act of making can in itself create m... Read More about An empirically grey area. [Solo exhibition].

Opaque documents. [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
BONIZZI, V. 2019. Opaque documents. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 4-11 November 2019, Nomas* Projects, Dundee.

This solo exhibition, curated by Laura Leuzzi, featured two video works by artist Valentina Bonizzi. The works show the results and failures of the artist's persistent attempts to preserve a story - whether that of a small bird, or of a family album'... Read More about Opaque documents. [Exhibition].

Exploring contemporary illustrations of Scottish identity through a study of Scottish fashion influencers on Instagram. (2019)
Journal Article
MARCELLA-HOOD, M. 2019. Exploring contemporary illustrations of Scottish identity through a study of Scottish fashion influencers on Instagram. Scottish affairs [online], 28(4), pages 367-394. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2019.0294

This paper explores the construction of Scottish identity and place amongst fashion and style influencers on Instagram. Existing research and information surrounding the Scottish fashion industry is sparse and focused on traditional textiles, such as... Read More about Exploring contemporary illustrations of Scottish identity through a study of Scottish fashion influencers on Instagram..

Valuing arts and arts research. (2019)
Report
SARATSI, E., ACOTT, T., ALLINSON, E., EDWARDS, D., FREMANTLE, C. and FISH, R. 2019. Valuing arts and arts research. Valuing nature paper, 22. UK: Valuing Nature [online]. Available from: https://valuing-nature.net/valuing-arts-and-arts-research

Arts have a significant impact on the way we understand the world. It is widely accepted that arts are able to inspire people and direct attention to things that really matter; they help not only to understand how the material world affects us, but a... Read More about Valuing arts and arts research..

Drawing ideas society. (2019)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, A.E. 2019. Drawing ideas society. TRACEY: drawing and visualisation research [online], 14(1): drawing/phenomenology: tracing lived experience through drawing, article 385. Available from: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php/TRACEY/article/view/385/361

This article explores the possible relationship between drawing and contemporary art practice in the shift of art into public life. In this shift artists have invented ways of working that situate their work socially, economically and aesthetically i... Read More about Drawing ideas society..

A funeral march for economic valuation. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FREMANTLE, C. 2019. A funeral march for economic valuation. Presented at 2019 Valuing nature annual conference, 28-29 October 2019, London, UK.

This presentation will explore the various ways that we can think about ecosystems that are degraded or dying and how this relates to questions of economic valuation – what does it mean to attribute a monetary value to the Great Barrier Reef, apparen... Read More about A funeral march for economic valuation..

Edward Allington: things unsaid. (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Edward Allington: things unsaid. Exhibition held on 25 October 2019 - 23 February 2020, Henry Moore Institute and the Upper Sculpture Study Gallery at Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds.

Seeking new ways of 'moving and matching the complexity of the world', Edward Allington (1951-2017) was part of a generation of artists responding to changing aesthetic, social and cultural values at the end of the 1970s. A sculptor, writer and educa... Read More about Edward Allington: things unsaid..

Embedding. [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Embedding. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 19 October - 10 November 2019, Look Again Project Space, Aberdeen.

The partnership between Gray's School of Art (Robert Gordon University) and RockRose Energy has been one of unexpected outcomes. By placing students within the workplace and challenging them to respond to the threads that connect the people who make... Read More about Embedding. [Exhibition].

Notes on a periphery. (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Notes on a periphery. Exhibition held 4-18 October 2019, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

An exhibition of recent photography and video work by four artists: Anne Campbell, Sapphire Goss, Lottie Davies and Eugene Schlumberger. Whilst peripheral regions have loomed large in traditional histories of art made in the British group of nations,... Read More about Notes on a periphery..

Disciplinarity and peripheries. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
FREMANTLE, C. 2019. Disciplinarity and peripheries. Presented at the 2nd Gray's research conference 2019: the periphery, 5 October 2019, Aberdeen, UK.

By analogy disciplines are a form of ‘centre’ and work across disciplines involves focusing on edges. Some people conceptualise disciplines to have ‘near’ and ‘far’ relations i.e. visual art is ‘near’ art history and ‘far’ from environmental modellin... Read More about Disciplinarity and peripheries..

National identity and "Muslim immigrant" representation in the British and Danish press, 2005-2015. (2019)
Thesis
LAWRIE, M. 2019. National identity and "Muslim immigrant" representation in the British and Danish press, 2005-2015. Robert Gordon University [online], PhD thesis. Available from: https://openair.rgu.ac.uk

This thesis examines, through a diachronic analysis, how the British and Danish press utilise national identity when constructing a representation of Muslims. Key cluster events are examined to identify media discourses over a ten-year time period be... Read More about National identity and "Muslim immigrant" representation in the British and Danish press, 2005-2015..

From augmented to authentic: weaving the past into the future. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
STEED, J., JIANG, Y. and CROSS, K. 2019. From augmented to authentic: weaving the past into the future. Presented at 2019 Shoormal conference: new coasts and shorelines: shifting sands in the creative economy, 18-21 September 2019, Lerwick, UK

As our understanding of the provenance and inherent value of artisan textile and craft skills alters through our increasingly digital and fast paced world, there needs to be a revaluing of hand/human processes that reconnect people and products in an... Read More about From augmented to authentic: weaving the past into the future..

Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L., PARTRIDGE, S. and LOCKHART, A. 2019. Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects. In RE:SOUND 2019: proceedings of 8th Histories of media arts international conference 2019 (MAH 2019): sound, media and art; theories, histories, practices, 20-23 August 2019, Aalborg, Denmark. London: BCS, pages 274-282. Hosted on ScienceOpen [online]. Available from: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.41

This paper will discuss methodologies, approaches and issues, emerging out of three major research projects that have investigated early histories of video art in Europe: REWIND (2004 ongoing), REWINDItalia (2011-2014) and EWVA (2015-2018). The paper... Read More about Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects..

The art of life adapting: drawing and healing. (2019)
Journal Article
FREMANTLE, C. 2020. The art of life adapting: drawing and healing. Leonardo [online], 53(1), pages 83-84. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01833

If more people are living with long term conditions, e.g. cancer, how can we think about the adaptations involved? Are there lessons from adaptation in environment policy and practice, e.g. in the writings of Wendell Berry (b. 1934) on scarred landsc... Read More about The art of life adapting: drawing and healing..

EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. (2019)
Book
LEUZZI, L., SHEMILT, E. and PARTRIDGE, S. (eds.) 2019. EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. Barnet: John Libbey Publishing.

"EWVA | European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s" is the main output of the eponymous research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. The res... Read More about EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s..

On women's video art in the context of Yugoslavia, 1969-1991. (2019)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2019. On women's video art in the context of Yugoslavia, 1969-1991. In Leuzzi, L., Shemilt, E. and Partridge, S. (eds.) EWVA: European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. East Barnet: John Libbey Publishing.

Written from our vantage point, the categories of ‘Yugoslavia’ and ‘video art’ are historical. Having grown up in the 1980s with video art as the most contemporary of the new art practices, and with Yugoslavia seemingly a permanent fixture on the map... Read More about On women's video art in the context of Yugoslavia, 1969-1991..

Self/portraits: the mirror, the self and the other: identity and representation in early women's video art in Europe. (2019)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Self/portraits: the mirror, the self and the other: identity and representation in early women's video art in Europe. In Leuzzi, L., Shemilt, E. and Partridge, S. (eds.) EWVA European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. Barnet: John Libbey Publishing, chapter 1, pages 7-24.

During the Renaissance, a new sense of agency in the role and identity of the artist stimulated the self-portrait as an independent genre. Since that period, many artists have explored this genre with different results and sensibilities, employing ne... Read More about Self/portraits: the mirror, the self and the other: identity and representation in early women's video art in Europe..

Ever after [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Ever after. Exhibition held 24 July - 24 August 2019, The Scottish Gallery [online], Edinburgh. Available from: https://issuu.com/scottishgallery/docs/tsg_derrick_guild_ever_after

An exhibition, held at the Scottish Gallery for The Edinburgh Festival 2019. In Ever After the artist has looked at the most traditional of Joshua Reynold’s orders: portraiture and forced us to interrogate how we look and so what we learn. He takes... Read More about Ever after [Exhibition].

In between states. [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
In between states. Exhibition held on 6 June - 6 July 2019, The W OR M, 2019 Look Again Festival, Aberdeen.

An exhibition of contemporary artists, three from North Macedonia, Ana Jovanovska, Ana Lazarenvsk and Ivana Sidzimovska and two from Scotland, Jack Handscome and Izzy Thomson and curated by Jon Blackwood. The exhibition took place in Peacock Visual A... Read More about In between states. [Exhibition].

Widening academic and student participation and engagement in Scotland's HE innovation and enterprise agenda. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DAVIDSON, A., BREMNER, P. and PERKINS, J. 2019. Widening academic and student participation and engagement in Scotland's HE innovation and enterprise agenda. Presented at Focus on: graduate skills 2018-19; sharing practice event, 5th June 2019, Glasgow, UK. Glasgow: QAA [online]. Available from: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaas/focus-on/widening-academic-and-student-participation-and-engagement-in-scotland-s-he-innovation-and-enterprise-agenda.pdf

This presentation examines the Scottish Innovative Student Awards (SISA) which are run by the Scottish Institute for Enterprise in collaboration with 3 of Scotland’s Innovation Centres, the Digital Health and Care Institute, the Data Lab and Censis.... Read More about Widening academic and student participation and engagement in Scotland's HE innovation and enterprise agenda..