The Centre for Research in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice

Projects

The Centre currently has eight Research Forums; all staff are welcome to contribute to more than one Forum. Each Forum offers an open investigatory approach, encouraging critical debate and shared contexts that subsequently leading to major new projects and research outputs. The Research Groups and Forums are purposeful in this intent, testing both new methodologies and models of disciplined practice. These pages describe recent projects and outputs of three Research Forums; the remaining five Forums will soon be updated on to these web-pages.

Sculpture and Installation Art Research Forum

Lisa Stansbie: Spitfire Beach 2010

During 2010 and 2011 staff in the ‘Sculpture and Installation Art Forum’ completed the following projects. Professor Rob Ward exhibited 50 marble sculptures and 20 paintings produced in China for exhibition at Shanghai Sculpture Park, China. In 2010 Professor Ward also exhibited his work at Yue Hue Museum Shanghai, China, and participated in a major biennale of international sculpture at Scultura Internationale. Castello Racconigi Turin, Italy.

Dr. Lisa Stansbie exhibitited her Spitfire Beach project in 2010/11 at the following; Halle 14/g39, Leipzig, Germany, the work was also selected by Arts Council England and Axis to represent Yorkshire at Arts for Everyone. 

In 2011 Anneke Pettican in Brass Art collaboration exhibited in Dark Matters at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

Dr. Jill Townsley exhibited her Spoons sculpture at Museum of Art and Design, New York and her piece Till Rolls, which was commissioned by and exhibited at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne. Dr. Townsley was also commissioned by Architects Gensler to make Brass Desk for Clifford Chance head office, Washington DC, USA, the commission was coordinated by Project 4 Gallery Washington.

In 2010 Dr. Steve Swindells exhibited his work in Summoning the Face of the Other at New Zealand Film Archive and in Dutton and Swindells collaboration participated in Surface Depth, H Gallery, Bangkok. In 2011 Dr. Swindells exhibited in Animal Spirits at Sugarcube, Stockholm and in Dutton and Swindells collaboration The Stag and Hound at PSL, Leeds.

Culture and Criticality Research Forum

Patrick Procktor - Art and Life

During 2010 and 2011 staff in the ‘Culture and Criticality Research Forum completed the following projects: In 2010 Ian Massey wrote a major biographical monograph on Patrick Procktor: Art and Life published by Unicorn Press. Ian also completed major essays on the work of John Blackburn for the Lemon Street Gallery, Truro and the Mount Artis Gallery, Auckland. Ian is currently working on an essay on Keith Vaughan to accompany a major exhibition and catalogue of paintings, to be published in 2012.

In 2010 Dr. Gil Pasternak wrote Posthumous Interruptions: The Political Life of Family Photographs in Israeli Military Cemeteries published by Berg in Photography and Culture. Dr. Pasternak has also wrote on Covering Horror: Family Photographs in Israeli Reportage on Terrorism, published by Routledge in Object 11, and in 2010 he wrote a chapter for The Brownies in Palestina, published by Ashgate Publishing Group.

Dr. Robert Clarke continues to research and write around the ontology of Martin Heidegger and an existentialised phenomenology of experience. Dr. Clarke has recently written for Aesthetic Pathways and Culture and Dialogue, published by Airiti Press Inc. He has also written a book chapter in Philosophy, Technology and Art, published by Ionia Publications, Athens.

Fashion and Textile Art Research Forum

Kevin Almond

Kevin Almond has recently written extensively on fashion and innovative pattern cutting. In 2010/2011 he wrote the following academic research papers:  Masquerade in Clubland:  A Safe Space for Glamour published in Journal of Visual Culture & Gender; Fashion in Peril, published in The International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education; Suffering in Fashion: The Links that Expose Issues for the Future Production of Garments and their Appropriation as Fashionable Items, published in The International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, Special Edition; Insufficient Allure: The Luxury and Cost of Creative Pattern Cutting, published in The International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education.

Stephen Wigley’s research focuses on fashion marketing and retail, he has recently written and contributed to the following academic papers:  A Conceptual Model of Diversification in Apparel Retailing: the case of Next Plc. published in Journal of the Textile Institute; Market-facing Strategic Alliances in the Fashion Sector, published in the Journal of Fashion Marketing & Management; Fashion Retail Internationalisation in Practice: per una in Taiwan, published in the International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management; Modeling Components of the UK High Street Fashion Brand, published in the Journal of the Textile Institute and  Design and Marketing Issues in the Plus-Sized Fashion Market, co-written with Kevin Almond also published in the Journal of the Textile Institute.

Claire Barber and Penny Macbeth are organising an international conference (January 2012) on textile craft in the community, entitled Outside: Activating cloth to enhance the way we live. Claire’s research has an open and broad approach to textiles, her recent individual work includes Bite-Size: Miniature Textiles From Japan to the UK, and Transition and Influence, at The Gallery of Contemporary Textile Artists, University for the Creative Arts, London, both exhibitions are curated by Professor Lesley Millar. Claire’s collaborative public art commissioned work includes: Weymouth Relief Road Commission (development phase) with Richard Harris; Place Space and Identity 2 and Art Plus Award Scheme for Art in Public Places with R A Webb.

In 2010 Claire Barber and Dr. Steve Swindells formed the collaboration Barber Swindells, recent Barber Swindells public art commissions and exhibitions include: WOW, at AIRE, Mexico Textile Art Biennale 2011, Mining Couture for Transform 2, Snibston Discovery Park, Leicestershire and in 2012 Maximum Exposure for Somerset Art Works.