who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Jane Coad
The University of the West of
England, The Centre for Child and
Adolescent Health, Frenchay
Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol,
United Kingdom
Keywords health, social care, genetic
information, photography, young
people
Rebecca Coates
Keywords curator, writer, lecturer
Emma Cocker
Nottingham Trent University, Visual
Arts (Fine Art), Bonington Building,
Dryden Street, Nottingham, NG1
4GG, United Kingdom
Keywords wandering, failure,
performance, stillness, rehearsal
Jane Coad is a Senior Research Fellow (Post Doctoral) in The Centre
for Child and Adolescent Health, The University of the West of
England and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in a DH funded project
known as FamilyTalk; (Communicating Genetic Information across
Families) at The University of Birmingham. Jane undertakes
participatory research with children and young people in a variety of
health and social care settings using a range of qualitative research
methods both locally in Bristol and Birmingham but also nationally.
Her current research projects include engaging children and families in
research around communicating genetic information; using
photography to explore young people’s perceptions of health and lives,
memories of paediatric intensive care unit and the effects of early arts
on young children’s health and development.
› REVIEWS, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, 2.1, 93-101.
Rebecca Coates is a Melbourne-based independent curator, writer and
lecturer. She is Associate Curator at the Australian Centre for
Contemporary Art and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of
Melbourne.
› REVIEWS, Art & the Public Sphere, 1.1, 85-.
Emma Cocker is a writer based in Sheffield and Senior Lecturer in Fine
Art at Nottingham Trent University. Operating under the title ‘Not Yet
There’, her writing and research (often developed dialogically through
conversations with other artists) interrogates the critical and creative
potential within experiences or conditions such as failure, doubt,
deferral, uncertainty, boredom, hesitation, indecision, immobility and
inconsistency, by exploring models of practice - and subjectivity -
which resist or refuse the pressure of a single or stable position by
remaining willfully unresolved. Cocker has written essays for various
exhibition catalogues, publications and journals including The Art
Book, a-n, Frieze, drain, Dance Theatre Journal, engage, m/c, Journal
of Writing in Creative Practice and artandresearch. Recent book
chapters include Performing Stillness – Community in Waiting’, in
Stillness in a Mobile World (Routledge, 2011),‘The Restless Line,
Drawing’Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art