Postgraduate Prospectus 2011

Aberystwyth University - ABWTH A4034 Fine Art & Art HistoryPanoramic of the 2009 Postgraduate exhibition openingSenior Lecturer in Art History and Curator ofCeramicsMoira Vincentelli MA (Edinburgh) Dip Hist Art(Edinburgh)Her published work in Women and Ceramics:Gendered Vessels (MUP, 2000) and Women Potters:Transforming Traditions (A&C Black, 2003), as wellas her work developing the Ceramics Collectionand Archive, have established Vincentelli at theforefront of contemporary studies in ceramics.External research collaborations are key toher work. Through a symposium in 2007 andan exhibition in 2008 at Carleton College andNorthern Clay Centre Minneapolis, Vincentellihas developed an international network ofscholars working on traditional ceramics andtheir transformations and adaptations in thecontemporary world. She has curated severalnational touring exhibitions of ceramicsincluding Sankofa: Ceramic Tales from Africa(2006) and Body Works: Figurative Ceramics(2005), and regularly develops exhibitions,websites and educational projects in relationto the Ceramic Collection and Archive, someof which draw on postgraduate projects andresearch.Vincentelli is a founding member of theInterpreting Ceramics Research Collaboration(with University of Wales Institute Cardiff, BathSpa University and University of the West ofEngland, Bristol), which organizes conferencesand exhibitions and publishes the electronicjournal Interpreting Ceramics. She is on theEditorial Board of Interpreting Ceramics, hasedited Issue 10 (2008) on World Ceramics andis a long-serving Member of the OrganizingCommittee of the International CeramicsFestival. Following an AHRC-funded project sheis currently preparing a book on Ceramics inWales, a Gendered Perspective.Teaching and research supervision coversEuropean art history 19th century to the present,contemporary and traditional ceramics, genderand identity in art, craft, and design.Research LecturerColin Cruise DipAD (Hornsey) PGCE (Middx)MLit (Keele) PhD (Keele)Before starting an academic career in VictorianStudies, Cruise studied Fine Art, specialisingin printmaking and painting. His PhD thesisconcerns English Literature of the 1890s inrelation to religion, art, and gender. He haspublished widely on aspects of Victorianculture, including ‘Versions of the Annunciation’(After the Pre-Raphaelites (MUP 1999); ‘BaronCorvo and the Key to the Underworld’ in TheVictorian Supernatural (CUP 2003); and ‘Sincerityand Earnestness: Rossetti’s Early Exhibitions’in Burlington Magazine (January 2004). Hecontributed three entries on Victorian artiststo the Dictionary of National Biography.Forthcoming publications include essays onPater (for Macmillan), on Simeon Solomon (forAshgate) and on drawing for The CambridgeCompanion to Pre-Raphaelitism.Cruise curated the major exhibition LoveRevealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites (2005-6)—which toured Villa Stuck,Munich, and the Ben-Uri Gallery, London—andorganized the accompanying conference for theNational Portrait Gallery, London (2006), and thesymposium at Yale BAC (2006). The exhibitioncatalogue was published by Merrell in 2005.Cruise is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts;Member of the AHRC Peer Review College(since 2007); Member of the AHRC PostgraduatePanel (since 2008); and served as Chair of theAssociation of Art Historians (2004-07). He isa member of the academic advisory panelfor a major JISC-funded project to digitise allPre-Raphaelite works at BMAG and is curatorof an international touring exhibition on Pre-Raphaelitism, Drawing Conclusions (catalogue tobe published by Thames and Hudson in 2010).He was the holder of the first Pre-RaphaeliteFellowship jointly awarded by the University ofDelaware and the Delaware Art Museum in 2008.Teaching and research supervision covers19th-century art and its cultural contexts insocial history and religion; Pre-Raphaelitism; theAesthetic Movement; the identity of the artist inBritish art c1800-c1960; the history of drawing.Lecturer in Fine ArtPaul Croft BA (Edinburgh) PGDip (Edinburgh)PGCE (Ulster) TMP (Albuquerque) REPaul Croft trained in Fine Art, specialising indrawing, painting and printmaking. Sincehe qualified as Master Printer from the worldrenownedTamarind Institute of Lithographyin 1996, his research and practice as an artist,printmaker and collaborating printer hasculminated in the publication of two books onStone Lithography and Plate Lithography (UK: A&CBlack, 2001 & 2003; USA: Watson-Guptill, 2003;China: JML Fine Art Press, 2003). In 2007 hecurated Stone-Plate-Grease-Water, an exhibitionof international contemporary lithography, anAHRC-funded research project that has made asignificant contribution to the understanding ofthe nature and diversity of current lithographicpractice. The show included 90 prints by 64 artistsfrom the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia,Argentina and Jordan, and was accompanied by acatalogue and website (www.spgw.co.uk).As an Associate Fellow (2005) and Fellow (2007)of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, andChairman of Aberystwyth Printmakers, Croft hasformed an international network of artists, printworkshops and educational institutions withthe aim of increasing the profile of lithographyand attracting collaborating artists to theSchool of Art. Recent print collaborations haveincluded David Tress, Shani Rhys James, andStuart Pearson Wright. Croft has contributed