ahrc - international placement scheme - nihu

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award - Community in ClayCeramic Arts Research Centre, University of Sunderland with

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

NIHU IPS Scholarship Case Study: National Museum of Ethnology, Japan

Recontextualising the George Brown Collection through creative ceramic practice and community engagement

January – April 2013

Christopher McHugh

Director of Studies: Prof Kevin Petrie, University of SunderlandCo-supervisor: Dr Andrew Livingstone, University of SunderlandExternal Supervisor: Shauna Gregg, Keeper of Fine and Decorative Art,

Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

Entrance to NME (Minpaku) ‘Relics for the Future’

Permanent display of the George Brown Collection at National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.

Left: ‘Man with clock placed in lobe of his ear to show the size of the orifice, circumference of clock, thirteen inches.’, from Melanesians and Polynesians by George Brown

Right: the clock as it is now in the George Brown Collection at Minpaku

Working with artists, makers and curators in the George Brown Collection storeroom, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka

An animator from Kyoto City University of Arts examines a club from Fiji.

Party with PhD students from Papua New Guinea, Association of South Pacific Area, Osaka

Solomon Islands lime container, George Brown Collection, NME

Porcelain vessels based on lime containers from the Solomon Islands in the George Brown Collection, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka

Flotsam and Jetsam, UAPS, Osaka, March, 2013

Work made as a result of IPS on display in PhD exhibition at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens Photo: Colin Davison

The Heart of Jack Crawford: A Shrine to Unsung HeroesGallery of Wonder exhibition atGreat North Museum: Hancock 14th May – 18th June, 2011

The home of the George Brown Collection until 1985

Tracing elements of the George Brown Collection which are still in UK collections

Tyne & Wear Archives & MuseumsBritish MuseumSainsbury Centre for Visual ArtsPitt Rivers Museum, OxfordBirmingham Museum and Art Gallery

New Ireland malanggan objects at the Sainsbury Centre, UEA

Thanks for listening!

Christopher.McHugh@research.sunderland.ac.ukwww.CommunityinClay.org.uk