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MIRIAD Research Degrees Newsletter 2010

Vol. 2 No. 1, April 2010

Research Degree Students play an important role in the Universitys academic and wider communities. This issue lists the recent contributions our activities have made to the research environment.

Publications

'oN tHE eDGe' in Film International Vol.8.1 A Class Act: the Changing Portrayal of Servants in Cinema in Film International (forthcoming) Writers in Cinema in Film International (forthcoming) S.O.S. to the British Film Industry in Cinema Retro, California (forthcoming). 'Small World,' exploring the use of confined space in cinema in Talking Pictures (Santa Monica) (forthcoming) Contributor to MMUs upcoming Journal of Comic-Book Culture, edited by Dave Huxley and Joan Ormrod. Gary also contributes to local and regional press.

Lectures Six-part undergraduate lecture series at MMU on journalism and the depiction of journalists in comic books.

Gary McMahon Film Studies 3rd year PhD candidate

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Jack has brought together a full gallery of his research designs into one publicly accessible website. A summary of his work to date, including images of all works can be found at: http://web.me.com/jacktait/Taitographs2

Jack Tait Cybernetics and Computer Art 2nd Year PhD candidate

Conferences

'Singing the Strike: Folk song, the miner's strike and the imagined (pit) village' paper given at Digging the Seam: Cultural Reflections on the 1984/85 miner's strike at Leeds University (March 26th, 2010) Remote Traditions: Learning to Play the Fiddle at a Distance paper and film accepted for forthcoming North Atlantic Fiddle Conference, Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, July 2010

Film

The Glassmaker's Hand made for Broadfield House Glass Museums 30 year anniversary

Performance

Upcoming performance at Fete du Chant Traditionnel in Bovel, Brittany, April 2010 Lucy is also recording her first album

Lucy Wright Visual Ethnomusicology 1st year PhD candidate

International Exhibitions March 2010 - 'Sugary Photographs with Tricks, Poses and Effects - A festival on Photography' (group exhibition in Antwerp, Belgium) www.sugaryphotographs.com February 2010 - 'Searching for Another Physics' (group exhibition at the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, the University of Tokyo, Japan)

International Research Visits David is scheduled to spend the coming months at the Ransom Centre, University of Texas, Austin where he will be undertaking re-search and screening one of his new films.

David Price Art History 3rd year PhD candidate

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International Collaboration Craigs research has forged trans-disciplinary links amongst a number of architects, manufacturers and engineers. Forthcoming research visits will take him to the Lindner's London factory (April 2010) and to architecture practices in Zurich and Berlin.

Conferences Attended SmartGeometry 2010, Barcelona to explore the future of digital design and rapid production.

Publications

Make Do and Mend: Leisure or work in the lives of working-class women in Bolton and Oldham, Lanca-shire 1939-1945 in Snape, Robert & Pussard, Helen (Eds), (2010) Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and pastimes in 20th Century Britain, Leisure Studies Association, pp. 41-55. Also given as a paper at Reading Leisure Lives Conference held by Leisure Studies Association and University of Bolton at Bolton Museum in March 2009.

Teaching Alison has taught on two undergraduate units for Historical and Cultural Contexts in Art and Design at MMU.

Craig Stott Architecture 1st year MA by Research

Alison Slater Dress History 3rd year PhD Candidate

International Research Visits Amar spent 6 weeks in India researching the work of British Artists In 18th and 19th century India. During this period he made research visits to the Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, The Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai and the Asiatic Society Libraries in both Calcutta and Mumbai. He has continued to pursue his research through visits to UK sites and exhibitions including 'The Indian Portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Amar Sabberwal History of Art 1st year MA by Research

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Exhibitions Global Studio (group exhibition) at the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, April 2010 and then touring to Salzamt & Maerz arts organisations in Linz, Austria from July until Sept 2010. www.thebluecoat.org.uk/content/view/252/15/ HIGH TIDE, (group exhibition) John Moores University Gallery, Liverpool. March 2010.

Robyn has also been participating in a Makhad Research retreat in Egypt's Sinai Desert, March 2010.

Robyn Woolston Art 1st year MA by research

'Time and Tide...' (2010) Variable proportions. Elec-tronic gift cards, tree trunk and price stickers.

Awards

Rome Scholar in Architecture , British School at Rome, JanMar 2009. Researching the Italian connection to the work of 20th century Architect, Jack Coia.

International Exhibitions

'Our Lives are Full of Remarkable Coincidences' (group exhibition) at the British School in Rome from 13-21 March 2009.

Conferences

'Architectural Objects: Discussing Spatial Form Across Art Histories' paper to be given at Association of Art Historians Student Summer Symposium Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, June 2010.

Teaching

James is a part time Lecturer in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture

James Robertson Architectural History 4th year PhD candidate

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Publications

Art or Information Design in Outside Edge, Garden Design Journal, November, Issue 89, 2009.

Species of Drawing in Landscape Architecture, Journal of Green Places, September, Issue 58, 2009, pp 40-41.

Conferences

Cureton, Paul & Staff, Craig, Of Blood, of Trade, Authority, Agency: Sought After Forms and Drawing Today, given at the Association of Art His-torians Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, April 2009.

Cureton, Paul & Staff, Craig, Central Orbits and Corporeal Realities: Drawing and the Renaissance Workshop, given at the Association of Art His-torians Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, 15 17 April 2010.

Encounters and Seeing Through: Scaling Informatics, Fidelity and Representation, forthcoming at Emerging Landscapes, Between Production and Representation, School of Architecture and the Built Envi-ronment, University of Westminster, 25th -27th June, 2010.

Exhibitions Smrgsbord, (group exhibition) GX Gallery, Camberwell, London, 16th January - 4th February 2010.

Paul Cureton Landscape Architecture 1st Year PhD candidate

Beccy was awarded her PhD this year for her thesis Picturing Migration: Presenting Art Works by South Korean Artists in Britain 2006-2008 which she completed within 3 years. Since

then she has continued to lecture undergraduate and foundation level students at MMU within both the Sociology Department and the Art and Design History Department.

Publications/Exhibitions

'The Future of Originality,' exhibition text/and leaflet, for Of Origin and Future II, I-myu in association with Alon Zakaim Fine Art Gallery, 29th October to 7 November 2009, part of Asian Art in London Week

Dr Beccy Kennedy History of Art PhD awarded Feb 2010

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International Exhibitions InsideOut (group exhibition) at Object Gallery Sydney, Australia, June 2010 then touring internation-ally. The exhibition is the outcome of an exchange programme between art school centres and artist groups in the United Kingdom and Australia and will be launched simultaneously in both countries in mid 2010. http://www.arttech.com.au/insideout/info.html The Power of Copying (group exhibition), an international exhibition featuring work from five countries. Xuzhou Museum of Art, Jiangsu, China, opens May 2010

Teaching

Danny runs a 5th year unit at the Manchester School of Architecture called 'Emergent Urbanism'

Complex Aggregate, 2010

Danny Richards Design and Computation 1st year PhD candidate

Publications

Stitching Stories in Cloth, Domestic Quilts of Bangladesh forthcoming in Textile Perspectives Evolution and change in the designs and markets of the traditional Ajrakh printing of Kachchh, India forthcoming in Textile Perspectives

International Research Visits

Ruth participated in an MMU organised research trip to India in 2008. She travelled to the DIA design institute in Delhi, visited textile design studios, artisans and factories. She also made research visits to Kala Raksha, a charitable trust in Kachchh, North Gujarat, working to preserve the local traditional crafts and Anokhi in Jaipur, Rajasthan, a commercial company working to revive design traditions of the area.

Workshops Patterns of Identity in Rural India presentation and workshop for MMU MA Textiles group Presentation and workshop for Chorlton Arts Festival, May 28th 2010 , Chorlton Library. Workshop series planned in conjunction with Macclesfield Silk Museum in July 2010

Ruth Clifford Design 1st year MA by research

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Publication/Exhibition

Exhibition and catalogue text for Berlin and That at the International 3, Manchester, April 2010

Review of Mythogeography by Phil Smith for Artists Newsletter online (forthcoming, May)

Conferences

Participant at Mapping, Memory and the City, University of Liverpool, February 2010

Teaching

Gavin has taught on an undergraduate unit in Historical and Cultural Con-texts in Art and Design at MMU

Publication/Exhibition

Exhibition and catalogue text for Berlin and That at the Interna-tional 3, Manchester, April 2010.

Review of Mythogeography by Phil Smith for Artists Newslet-ter online (forthcoming, May)

Conferences

Participant at Mapping, Mem-ory and the City, University of Liverpool, February 2010.

Teaching

Gavin has taught on an under-graduate unit in Historical and Cultural Contexts in Art and Design at MMU. Exhibitions

A Sense of Calm solo exhibition held at the Visual Resource Centre, MMU,

Gavin MacDonald Visual Culture 3rd year PhD candidate

Eunice Chan Art and Therapy 4th year PhD candidate

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Publications

Empire Marketing Board Posters a pocket guide to the collection at Manchester Art Gallery (Scala, London) Forthcoming, October 2010

Conferences

Propaganda, Pride and Prejudice: Revisiting the Empire Marketing Board Posters at Manchester City Galleries paper given at the AHRC Research and Co-operation Conference, London institute for Historical Studies, Feb 2009

Propaganda, Pride and Prejudice: Revisiting the Empire Marketing Board Posters at Manchester City Galleries paper given at the Annual Conference of the Museums Association, Newcastle, Australia, May 2009

An Introduction to Manchester City Galleries Empire Marketing Board Posters paper given at The Projection of Britain conference, University of Manchester, September 2009

Organiser of Secrets and Lies: Hidden Histories in Museums, one day Museums Association Conference, Manchester, May 2009 (postponed)

Participant in inaugural CHIMERA conference Making European Heritage, University of Manchester, March 2010

International Research Visits

Melanie received funding from the AHRC to spend May 2009 in Australia researching the presence of Empire Marketing Board material in a range of museum , library and archive collections

Teaching

Melanie has taught on three undergraduate units for Historical and Cultural Contexts in Art and Design and also taught study skills to foundation year students at MMU

Exhibitions

Propaganda? Pride? Prejudice? At Manchester Art Gallery, May to October 2009 A Retrospective of the Empire Marketing Board Posters, Manchester Art Gallery, October 2010 (postponed)

Melanie Horton Design History 4th year PhD candidate

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Exhibitions

Abstract Cabinet (group exhibition) at Eastside Projects, Birmingham Sep-Nov 2009

not at this address (group exhibition) at Bury Art Gallery, Aug-Nov 2009

Haiti.Artists.Arts.Auction (group exhibition) at Cube Gallery March 2009

Berlin and That (group exhibition) at the International3, Manchester, April 2010.

Bloom (group exhibition) at Bury Art Gallery, April 2010

Curatorial Projects

Magnus co-curates Manchesters Rogue Studios Project Space which showcases a fortnightly programme of events. Recent exhibitions have in-cluded POST(er) Manchester, March 2009; The Obvious Manifesto, March 2009, and Built, co-curated by Elizabeth Murphy, April 2009.

Conferences

Balancing practice and theory in visual arts research paper given at PARC North West, MMU, April 2010

Teaching

Magnus teaches on the Foundation Year Fine Art course at MMU.

Magnus Quaife Art 1st year PhD candidate

In compiling this newsletter student response is essential. We would like to hear more from you about your research activities. Those of you who have not been included in this issue will be included the next (September 2010). News of any research trips, projects, publications, exhibitions or conferences you have taken part in since April 2010 should be sent to MIRIAD@mmu.ac.uk headed Newsletter. We would also like to enhance our web presence so please ensure you have submitted your project details for inclusion on the MIRIAD web-site (see page entitled Project Titles). Please put a short statement together with pictures into an email and send to MIRIAD@mmu.ac.uk. Please head your mail Project Titles .

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August 2009 Naomi Kendrick MA Title: Forming a Sensorially Engaged Participatory Arts Practise September 2009 Dr Anne Kellock PhD Title: The Use of Photography within Arts for Health September 2009 Dr Maria Stukoff-Cornhelsen PhD Title: Mobile and Wireless Networks as Public Art an Investigation into Emergent Media Art Practises as Playful Encounters in Public Place November 2009 Dr Heidi Imai PhD Title: Street Encounters: Perceiving and Moving in the Urban Backstreet: a Cross Cultural study of Street Space in Japan December 2009 Dr Ann Marie Shaw PhD Title: Crafting the Technological: Gansey and Whole Garment knitting February 2010 Dr Rebecca Kennedy PhD Title: Picturing Migration: presenting art works by South Korea artists in Britain, 2006-2008 February 2010 Dr Shibin Zhang PhD Title: A Comparison between Chinese and Western Women Artists Work in the Late 1980s and early 1990s

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