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HOGAN Eileen
80 HOGAN Eileen
PROfESSOR
BiOgrAPhY Eileen Hogan is a practising
artist and researcher who has exhibited extensively
in the UK and America. Her practice
includes painting, book works and printmaking.
Since 1980, she has been represented by and
had regular solo shows at The Fine Art Society,
London. Other recent exhibitions include,
with Romilly Saumarez Smith, at the Yale Center
for British Art, which she co-curated with
Elisabeth Fairman (Senior Curator at YCBA); the
Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010; BP Portrait
Awards at the National Portrait Gallery, 2009, and
eileen Hogan’s Poetry Box, San Francisco Center
for the Book, 2008 (research for The Poetry Box was
funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Coun cil and Muji. The archive of images and letters
was purchased by the YCBA). Commis-
sions and awards include recording the Women’s
Royal Naval Services for the Artistic Records
Committee of the Imperial War Museum; and a
Churchill Traveling Fellowship for research
in America, Australia and Japan. Public collections
in which her work is represented include
the British Library; Government Art Collection;
Stadsbibliotheek Haarlem; Houghton Library,
Harvard; Imperial War Museum, London; Library
of Congress, Washington, DC; National Library
of Australia; Victoria and Albert Museum; and Yale
Center for British Art.
rESEArCh StAtEMENt My research is located
across fine art and theatre. An important
strand concerns the various ways that artists,
practitioners and students engage with
and ‘play’ in archives, the concomitant impact
that collections and archives can have on
practice and what the educational benefits of
‘archive’-based study in the visual arts
might be. Examples include The Jocelyn Herbert
Archive. Herbert (1917–2003) was one of
the most influential designers of the period
and her approach altered the way that directors
and audiences came to view stage design,
and contributed to a fundamental shift in the
relationship between playwright, director
and designer. Her extensive archive, which consists
of drawings, production photographs,
notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, models, masks
and correspondence, is housed at Wimbledon
College of Art. Its positioning within CCW’s Graduate
School represents a unique opportunity
to explore the potential integration of a worldclass
archive into the life of a practice-based
university. A collaboration with the National
Theatre was initiated in 2010 with a lecture
by Richard Eyre in the Olivier Theatre, the first
of ten. The 2011 lecture will be part of the
Linbury Awards and will contribute to the debate
about the role of the scenogra pher and how
authorship is revealed in their relation ship with
directors and writers.
The Baring Archive is one of the finest archives
of a financial institution anywhere in the
world. Most recent research in this seven-year
collaboration focuses on new work being
created in response to the collection by research
staff from CCW’s Graduate School. This has
raised questions about uncovering hidden narratives
in archives, the construction of archives
and the fluctuating notion of ‘value’ relating to
banking and to the arts themselves. Conversations
between artists, financiers and collectors
are underway as part of the continuing
project, which is seen as a catalyst provoking
debate across the arts, curatorial practice,
finance and banking. Each of these projects is
supported by a PhD student.
SELECtED OUtPUtS AND AChiEVEMENtS
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Yale Center for British Art USA (with Romilly
Saumarez Smith).
2010 Romilly Saumarez Smith: Bookbindings for Eileen
Hogan, Victoria and Albert Museum.
2009 Artist-In-Residence: Wimbledon Championships,
All England Lawn Tennis Club.
2009 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery;
Southampton City Art Gallery; the Dean Gallery,
Edinburgh (3 portraits of Anya Sainsbury included).
2008 The fine Art Society London.
2007 Eileen Hogan’s Poetry Box, San francisco Center for
the Book USA.
2007 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery;
Laing Gallery; National Portrait Gallery of Scotland
(3 portraits of Ian Hamilton finlay included).
SELECTED PUBLICATION
2011 3 portraits of Ian Hamilton finlay in 500 Portraits:
BP Portrait Award, published by the National Portrait
Gallery.
Drawing by Jocelyn Herbert for If … (directed by Lindsay Anderson): pen, ink and
watercolour, 1968. © The Estate of Jocelyn Herbert
Herbert and Lindsay Anderson had a long working relationship, producing seminal works
in British film and theatre, including If … in 1968. CCW Graduate School is building
a relationship with the University of Stirling, which holds Anderson’s Archive, a chance to
compare two extensive collections of private papers and drawings.
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011 Editor and participant, The Currency of Art.
2010 Co-curator, Yale Center for British Art.
2009 Curator and participant, Re:SEARCHING: Playing in
the Archive, The Baring Archive, ING Bank London.
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND CONfERENCE
CONTRIBUTIONS
2011 Conference presentation, Geographies of Collections:
Archival Insights, Royal Geographical Society.
2010 Chair, The Value of the Open Drawing Exhibition, to
mark 10th anniversary of the Jerwood Charitable
foundation’s involvement with the Jerwood Drawing
Prize, Jerwood Space.
2010 The Contemporary Thomas Lawrence, National Portrait
Gallery (part of the Inside Out festival sponsored by
New Statesman).
2008 Coordination of two research conferences with Tate
Britain and speaker, The Art of Giving: the Artist
in Public and Private funding and Creative Scholars.