30/07/2017 This performance by MA Contemporary Art Practice students Eleonora Roaro and Katy Richardson pays homage to directors Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni, who died on 30 July 2007. The directors created a grammar of film more focused on images than narrative, and the two women, in two separate locations, will remain in front of… Continue reading 30th July 2017: Live stream performance
Month: July 2017
Twisted Brilliance: The 1909–1918 catalogue of Egon Schiele, as never seen before
Gemma Blackshaw, Professor of Art History at Plymouth University, is an internationally acknowledged expert on the Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890–1918). Her work on the sexual provocateur who shocked Viennese audiences with his explicit images of the naked and contorted body has been described in The Burlington Magazine as ‘densely documented, rigorously argued and delightfully… Continue reading Twisted Brilliance: The 1909–1918 catalogue of Egon Schiele, as never seen before
Plymouth Contemporary 2017
15th July – 2nd September 2017 Visit the Peninsula Arts Gallery and KARST and view artwork from new, up and coming creative talent alongside nationally and internationally significant artists at the Plymouth Contemporary. An open submission exhibition, it received more than 800 submissions from 26 countries and includes moving image, fine art, photography, architecture and… Continue reading Plymouth Contemporary 2017
Plymouth University researcher to redesign Cambridge Council work space
Plymouth University researcher Jonathan Forster, lecturer in 3D design, has won a project to redesign the workspaces for Cambridge City Council. The project will feature employee engagement and will utilise a unique design methodology that Jonathan has been developing as part of his research. Employee engagement in the design of office space has been proven… Continue reading Plymouth University researcher to redesign Cambridge Council work space
David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
Congratulations to Dr David Sergeant who has recently been awarded a 2 year AHRC Research Leadership Grant. The award is a 2 year AHRC ECR Leadership Fellowship, titled Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel,1880-2015. The project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and… Continue reading David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
Feature: Union is strength: the language of union in British radicalism c.1815 – 1850
BY JAMES GREGORY The recent international conference, ‘Union and Disunion in the Nineteenth Century’ held at the University of Plymouth (22 – 23 June 2017) looked at union and disunion from the level of families separated by mental health or poverty, through the local history of Union Street and the union of the three towns… Continue reading Feature: Union is strength: the language of union in British radicalism c.1815 – 1850
The Pronoun Utopia by David Sergeant
By David Sergeant For a while now a lot of my research has been circling around ideas of utopia, and how it relates to prose fiction; a reading that has involved drawing on a range of fields and approaches, from narratology to environmental criticism. However, it wasn’t until I was a fair way into assembling… Continue reading The Pronoun Utopia by David Sergeant
Call for Applications: Research Showcase 2018
(Deadline 6 August) The Research Showcase 2018 is taking place from 22–26 January, and will see the University celebrate its research successes with a series of events for internal or external audiences. The Steering Group is now calling for event applications from staff and PhD students – and applicants are encouraged to propose either half… Continue reading Call for Applications: Research Showcase 2018