who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

of Art, Merton Hall Rd, London,
SW19 3QA, United Kingdom
Keywords intellectual history,
aesthetics and politics, political
economy of art and design,
psychoanalysis
Christoph Raatz
Keywords reflective practice,
dyslexia, mature students,
international students, learning styles
Imogen Racz
Coventry University, Design and
Visual Arts, Priory Street, Coventry,
CV1 5FB, United Kingdom
Keywords Laibe, vessel, skill,
ceramic, exhibitions
Natascha Radclyffe-
Thomas
Villa Maria College, New York,
United States of America
development of a unified language for art and design activity through
an engagement with public culture and industrial capital, following the
Reform Bill of 1832.
› Critique Conscious and Unconscious:Listening to the Barbarous Language of
Art and Design, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 7.3, 225-240.
Christoph Raatz studied B.Sc. (Econ.) Economics and MA Economic
History at the London School of Economics (LSE). Following a brief
period in marketing consulting, he returned to the LSE as the
coordinator of a European Commission-financed, international research
project. In 2003, he joined Goldsmiths College as the project officer of
the Writing PAD project.
› Writing Purposefully in Art and Design (Writing PAD), Art, Design &
Communication in Higher Education, 3.2, 89-102.
Imogen Racz is Contextual studies Coordinator at Coventry University,
where she lectures on both fine and applied arts. She gained her Ph.D.
at the University of Newcastle for her work on the cubist sculptor
Henri Laurens. Her current research spans post war craft and sculptural
practice, with an emphasis on process, materials and cultural
environment. Her book Contemporary Crafts, which was published by
Berg in 2009, explores craft practice in America and England in the
context of the environment and particular cultural myths associated
with the city and the country. Her new area of research, which has
developed from this, relates to the contemporary vessel, which
references the domestic environment and its associated rituals.
› Sculptural vessels across the great divide: Tony Cragg's Laibe and the
metaphors of clay, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 8.3, 215-227.
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas was a partner in fashion-forward
childrenswear company ‘Miss Fleur’ and lectured in fashion and related
subjects, both studio-based and theoretical, for over ten years in
London College of Fashion, Croydon College and Lewisham College
before relocating to Hong Kong and working for the University of the