Prof. Clare Twomey will present her work ‘The Invisible Vase’ at The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, USA. The Portland Vase: Mania and Muse, a comprehensive exhibition that delves into the fascinating journey of the ways a single Classical vase rose to legendary status, shaping and influencing art and commerce across time and space. “This […]
Sara Dominici‘s article ‘Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain’ is out now in the latest issue of History of Photography. The article explores the arrival of the motorcar in Britain as it polarised photographers’ opinions like no other means of transport before. The article asks, more specifically, why those photographers who came from the […]
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Join Ingrid Pollard, Carole Wright, and Roshini Kempadoo for a panel discussion, chaired by Joy Gregory, as part of Photo London on Wednesday 15 May 2024. From Ingrid Pollard’s collages exploring the idealised male body to Carole Wright’s studies of community life in South London, the ground-breaking work made by black women photographers in the […]
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David Campany has published an overview of the work of French photographic artist Valérie Belin. “In 2003, the artist Valérie Belin made a series of photographs of Michael Jackson lookalikes. Not the preternaturally gifted child Michael, but the troubled older megastar. We can assume the lookalikes never met him. They were mimicking an image, or […]
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On 21 September 2023, Helen Sear is in conversation with Eugenie Shinkle at the Centre for British Photography. “Helen Sear presents a series of large-scale works that combine multiple images to emphasise the indivisibility of the human and the natural worlds. In giving equal status to the human and natural, Sear observes the landscape as another body. […]
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Matthias Kispert’s peer-reviewed article Disassembling the cloud factory: superconductr intervenes in platform-mediated work has been published in Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, Issue 09: Resistance. The article discusses aspects of Kispert’s project superconductr, which investigates conditions and contradictions in digital platform labour through employing artistic research methods that intervene in the infrastructures of digital labour […]
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Matthias Kispert’s article A Migrant Worker and a Migrant Artist Walk into a Kelp Farm has been published on the website documenting the social practice art project Song of the Wind, which involved a series of artist residencies on the South Korean island Joyakdo during which participating artists engaged with local communities and migrant workers involved […]
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Emerita Professor Christie Brown is currently exhibiting ceramics and drawing in Galeri Nev, a major Turkish gallery in Ankara, alongside the legendary Turkish artist Candeger Furtun. This two-person exhibition illustrates the strong connection between the practices of these two clay artists both thematically and technically. They first met during the two-day seminar in 2019 co-organised […]
The work of Sarah Pucill is featured in the new book publication, Photography: A Queer History, edited by Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon, published by Ilex. ‘Across ten diverse themes from documentary to performance, landscape to abstraction, visibility to militancy and more “photography: A Queer History examines the fundamental role of photography in the creation of […]
Film Screening of Sarah Pucill’s Magic Mirror at Cambridge University, on 13 June 2024. The screening will be followed by a discussion between the filmmaker, and Dr Diamuid Hester, who recently wrote about Claude Cahun in his book ‘Nothing Ever Just Disappears’. The discussion will be chaired by Cambridge doctoral researcher, Ciara Hervas. Magic Mirror […]
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