Outputs (210)

Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (2023)
Book Chapter

Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977) is a darkly satirical novel which explores the crossing of gender in the context of Second Wave feminism. Close connections will be made between this literary text and the visit made by Carter and her hus... Read More about Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve.

The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign (2023)
Book Chapter

The Afrikaner rebellion of 1914-1915 is an under-studied but significant event in South Africa’s troubled history. At its core was the struggle for the leadership and direction of an increasingly polarised Afrikaner community, elements of which were... Read More about The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign.

Co-creating anti-racist datasets in AI workflows utilising films as data (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Considering the concern for racial bias within AI algorithms, could creative responses within moving image archival practice and critical film theory foreground possibilities for intersectional approaches. This paper stems from artist practices with... Read More about Co-creating anti-racist datasets in AI workflows utilising films as data.

Song for a scar (2022)
Journal Article

One poem in a special issue of the journal on the theme of "Care"

Children and youth in the Russian Revolution (2022)
Book Chapter

Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia's revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first ref... Read More about Children and youth in the Russian Revolution.

Amidst urban edges (2022)
Book Chapter

Urban edges advance a reflection on human territoriality and the capacity of remaking territory in relation to public spaces. This social territory making includes a set of appropriation and consequences of presence in public space. Urban edges are i... Read More about Amidst urban edges.

Extract from "More on the Plums" with synopsis (2022)
Journal Article

Five poems, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums", accompanied by a synopsis of the composition/methodology.

Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939 (2022)
Book

In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'. The beginnings of a distinct youth culture can be traced to the late nineteenth... Read More about Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939.

The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter draws from Frascari’s discussion of “Drawings as loci for thought” () as well as earlier research on the “situation of drawing” (Banou 2015), to propose that the drawing archive inherits modes of embodied cognition from the particular mo... Read More about The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter.

Contested culture as change-maker: The collaborative approach to displaying the toppled statue of Edward Colston (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol in June 2020
made international headlines. Professor Shawn Sobers of the UWE Bristol and ‘We are Bristol History Commission’, and Ray Barnett Head of Collections & Archives at Bristol Museums,... Read More about Contested culture as change-maker: The collaborative approach to displaying the toppled statue of Edward Colston.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2022)
Journal Article

One poem from a pamphlet-length sequence.

‘We shouldn't let great art disappear into BBC Four's cultural ghetto’: The impact of BBC Four on mainstream arts provision (2022)
Journal Article

Although BBC Four has been lauded for its dedication to more esoteric content and artforms, since the channel was introduced there has concern for the range and depth of arts content on the BBC’s terrestrial services – BBC One and BBC Two. As journal... Read More about ‘We shouldn't let great art disappear into BBC Four's cultural ghetto’: The impact of BBC Four on mainstream arts provision.

Flash mob (2022)
Journal Article

One poem accepted by The Alchemy Spoon for a "Fixed Form" themed issue.

Artful Craft (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Celebrating our re-launch in 2022 with an exhibition focusing on the nature of craft, art and design in the 21st century.

We are delighted that our president Peter Randall-Page RA, whose own work effortlessly straddles concepts in art with tradit... Read More about Artful Craft.

Flutter By (2022)
Digital Artefact

Every Friday in March

Together with The One Minutes Foundation, the last month we have been calling for digital moving image works by artists and visual storytellers on the theme of Happiness. What does happiness look like and what power does it h... Read More about Flutter By.

Read With Me (2022)
Physical Artefact

Read With Me. Extending from the experimental book project ‘Read to Me’, this book is the result of: a performative drawing event, readings by a psychometric reader, collages made during lockdown and words assembled from the dissected readings. It wa... Read More about Read With Me.

Lesbian feminism (2022)
Book Chapter

Lesbianism is the term used to describe a sexual orientation, sexual acts and desires, and romantic and sexual love between women. During the period known as the feminist Second Wave across the Western world, roughly from the late 1960s and into the... Read More about Lesbian feminism.

Global crafts: Woodblock prints with Wuon-Gean Ho (2022)
Digital Artefact

This week Oliver is joined by Wuon-Gean Ho, printmaker and research associate at the University of West England’s Centre for Print Research, to discuss the place of mokuhanga, or woodblock printmaking, in the global spread of traditional crafts. Wuon... Read More about Global crafts: Woodblock prints with Wuon-Gean Ho.

New approaches with ceramic profile extrusion (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper and presentation concern the development of new methods with ceramic profile extrusion with the aim of expanding the creative exploration of architectural ceramic components. The project has established fast tooling workflows for the creat... Read More about New approaches with ceramic profile extrusion.

Between the Ears: The Emperor and the Pianola (2022)
Digital Artefact

Short description:

In this captivating Between the Ears, Professor Shawn Sobers uncovers the fascinating story of Emperor Haile Selassie I and his pianola as told through the music of the time, (based on Sobers' original research).

Long descrip... Read More about Between the Ears: The Emperor and the Pianola.