Outputs (4)

Writing practices, socialisation and subject cultures: Visual culture pedagogies (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Rintoul, J. (2023, June). Writing practices, socialisation and subject cultures: Visual culture pedagogies. Paper presented at On Not Knowing: How Artists Teach, The Glasgow School of Art

The social and historical construction of Visual Culture is entangled in a false theory/practice binary that presents writing as cerebral and formulaic. Through this construction, writing is often conflated with an essay assessment and a transmission... Read More about Writing practices, socialisation and subject cultures: Visual culture pedagogies.

The radical potential in becoming: Disembodied breasts and maternal femininity (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Rintoul, J., & Johnson, C. (2022, May). The radical potential in becoming: Disembodied breasts and maternal femininity. Paper presented at The Virgin’s Milk in Global Perspective: On the Fluidity of Images and the Politics of Divine Presence, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA

Renaissance depictions of the Nursing Virgin are replete with incongruities and juxtapositions. Her rounded feeding breast is absurdly positioned and shaped in contrast to a flat space where her non-feeding breast should be; She has a dual identity a... Read More about The radical potential in becoming: Disembodied breasts and maternal femininity.

Intuitive integration: A curricula model for teaching Critical and Contextual Studies (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Rintoul, J. (2017, November). Intuitive integration: A curricula model for teaching Critical and Contextual Studies. Paper presented at International Journal of Art and Design Education (iJADE) annual conference: Art and Design as Agent for Change, National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland

This conference paper proposes a curricula model and pedagogical approach that encourages students to work ‘intuitively’ as a means to empower them as learners and artists. This model draws together seemingly disparate knowledges from the studio and... Read More about Intuitive integration: A curricula model for teaching Critical and Contextual Studies.

Intuitive integration: A proposal for course design (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Rintoul, J. (2017, November). Intuitive integration: A proposal for course design. Paper presented at public symposium hosted by UWE Visual Culture Research Group (VCRG): Re-thinking Thinking in art and design education - thoughts on/from/with practice, Arnolfini, Bristol, England

Critical and Contextual Studies, Critical Studies, Contextual Studies, Visual Culture, Theory, Research, Art History and Contextual & Historical Studies are some of the many terms in circulation for forms of ‘theory’ in art and design education. Notw... Read More about Intuitive integration: A proposal for course design.