We are delighted to be taking part in the Being Human Festival 2018. This is a national festival that promotes public engagement with humanities research. The festival features hundreds of activities across the UK, highlighting the ways in which humanities can inspire and enrich our everyday lives, exploring big questions, debates and innovative ideas focused around… Continue reading 15th to 24th November: Being Human Festival 2018
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14th November 2018: 4th Mayflower Lecture
4th Mayflower lecture In search of the ancestors: Native American presences in British museums Wednesday 14 November | 18.00-20.30 | Sherwell Centre Jack Davy is a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia on the AHRC funded project “Beyond the Spectacle: Native American presences in Britain”. He has a PhD in anthropology… Continue reading 14th November 2018: 4th Mayflower Lecture
The Wallflower Project – A Plymouth Splash
The Wallflower Project is continuing to create murals across the city. Over the summer a pedestrian subway running under the St Budeaux bypass at Ferndale Road was painted in collaboration with Years 5 and 6 students from Weston Mill Community Primary Academy. Entitled A Plymouth Splash, the mural was facilitated by a Plymouth… Continue reading The Wallflower Project – A Plymouth Splash
Professor Gemma Blackshaw interview on forthcoming BBC film ‘Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires’
(Image Copyright: BBC. Image Credit: Bethany Hobbs) Gemma Blackshaw, Professor of Art History, will be talking about her research in the BBC Studios Production film Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires, which broadcasts on 10th November, 9pm, on BBC Two. Struck down by the Spanish Flu in 1918, aged just 28, in his short life Egon… Continue reading Professor Gemma Blackshaw interview on forthcoming BBC film ‘Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires’
Project gives voice to city’s refugees and addresses impact of increase in ethnic diversity
Dr Sana Murrani was recently interviewed by BBC Radio Devon to talk about ‘Creative Recovery: Mapping Refugees’ Memories of Home’, a project funded by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) to work with 15 refugees and asylum seekers from Plymouth to represent their memories of home through drawings, maps and architectural models. ‘Creative Recovery: Mapping Refugees’ Memories of Home’ was… Continue reading Project gives voice to city’s refugees and addresses impact of increase in ethnic diversity
News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
The latest newsletter from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) can be viewed via this link. The newsletter contains information about AHRC activities and funding calls. The October 2018 issue includes: Beyond: The R&D conference for the creative industries – 13 November 2018 – Beyond is a research and development conference for the creative industries.… Continue reading News from the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Mother Figure (On Being Painted by Chantal Joffe)
The following was written by Gemma Blackshaw, Professor of Art History, for the major exhibition Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Main Thing at The Lowry, Salford (19 May – 2 September 2018), which displayed new and recent paintings by Joffe alongside paintings by Paula Modersohn-Becker. Sunday 11 March I woke for the first… Continue reading Mother Figure (On Being Painted by Chantal Joffe)
‘Crazier than I am, or crazier than I look?’ Egon Schiele’s Self-Portraits
Gemma Blackshaw, Professor of Art History, writes: More than any other image, the self-portrait declares the artist as the subject of the work of art, and the work of art as the means by which we might know him (my use of the masculine pronoun is deliberate here), in all his creative, spiritual and sexual… Continue reading ‘Crazier than I am, or crazier than I look?’ Egon Schiele’s Self-Portraits
Exhibition: And the Crowd Go Wild
Laura Hopes, a University of Plymouth PhD student within the School of Art, Design and Architecture, will be exhibiting work at the Portland Stadium Bowl from 8th September to 16th September 2018 (11.00am – 6.00pm) as part of this year’s b-side festival. Laura has reanimated the dramatic Portland Stadium Bowl, situated in a former quarry… Continue reading Exhibition: And the Crowd Go Wild
The Infinite Guide website launch
Today will see the launch of the website www.theinfinite.guide for i-DAT’s next collaborative project, funded by the University of Plymouth, the Arts Council and developed in Partnership with KARST (Plymouth) and FACT (Liverpool). We have developed the technology aspects with one of our placements companies from DAT – Crumb Solutions and University of Plymouth… Continue reading The Infinite Guide website launch