6 research outputs found
The domestic veil: exploring the net curtain through the uncanny and the gothic
This research aims to develop original creative practice, using the net curtain to reconsider the domestic, through the lenses of the uncanny and the gothic. The net curtain, hanging in the liminal space between the public and the private, is used to embody Freud’s 1919 definition of the uncanny, as the point of slippage between the homely and the unhomely. Also central to this research are ideas about the gothic and gendered domesticity, in particular, the gothic fiction of the mid-nineteenth century that critiqued the idea of 'separate spheres'
Cloth & memory
This book was published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at Salts Mills, Saltaire, Yorkshire, UK, in summer 2012, conceived and directed by Lesley Millar MBE, Professor of Textile Culture at the University for the Creative Arts.
The exhibition and accompanying publication includes work by the artists Beverley Ayling-Smith, Carol Quarini, and Bob White. All visited Salts Mills and Saltaire and have created their work as a response to the history of the place: the memory of cloth and the making of cloth that has seeped into the fabric of the building.
This exhibition is the first of two; Cloth and Memory 2 taking place in 2013
Research students exhibition catalogue 2013
This exhibition catalogue showcases the work of current UCA research students at various stages of their research journey.
The theme of the exhibition and the one day conference is time - place - space and through their practice the research students examine these concepts and realities
Research students exhibition catalogue 2011
The catalogue demonstrates the scope and vibrancy
of current inquiries and pays tribute to the creative
capacity and investment of UCA research students.
It brings together contributions from students who
are at different stages in their research ad/venture.
Their explorations are connected by the centrality of
contemporary material practices as focal point
for the reconsideration of societal values, cultural
symbols and rituals and their meaning, and the
trans/formation of individual, collective and national
identities The media and formats employed range
from cloth, jewellery and ceramics to analogue film,
the human voice and the representation of dress and
fashionin virtual environments. Thematic interests
span from explorations at the interface of art and
medical science to an investigation of the role of art
in contested spaces, or the role of metonymy in ‘how
the arts think’ And whilst the projects are motivated
by personal curiosity and passion, their outcomes
transcend the boundaries of individual practice and
offer new insights, under-standing and applications
for the benefit of wider society. Prof. Kerstin Me
Transparent boundaries UK mapping project
In the UK we will be looking at Mapping. Working with various Elder groups and inter-generational groups we will map movements past, present and in dreams, under the titles: Past Lines, Lines of Connection, Lines of Desire. We will use tracking devices and record the patterns, actual maps as ‘prickings’, and led lights. Artists will work together with the participating group, translating the mappings into material outcomes.
The UK project began in late August 2012 with a group of Elders from Rowlands Castle in Hampshire, working with artists Gail Baxter and Carol Quarini. They have now identified their Past Lines and their Lines of Desire. The Lines of Connection will begin in September