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Fine Art Research Highlights

A selection of recent research projects undertaken by our staff and PhD students in the Fine Art department at Newcastle.

Richard Clay - Utopia

Richard Clay is an art historian who looked at how the nature of 'Utopia' has changed throughout the generations.

Catrin Huber - Expanded Interiors

Catrin Huber's work looks into ancient Roman wall paintings and artefacts left behind at Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Richard Grayson - Possessions

Possessions is a video project, which explores the ideas and themes prevalent in a text by Lars Bang Larsen.

Neil Bromwich - Art Lending Library

The Art Lending Library provides an opportunity for people to borrow artworks and enjoy them at home, work, or elsewhere.

Michael Mulvihill - The Hidden Nuclear Militarism

Michael's project use art to look at how lives have been shaped as a result of nuclear deterrent.

Wolfgang Weileder - Transfer Laban

Transfer Laban recreated the façade of a well-known building, and sited it in the centre of London.

Irene Brown - Gallery of Wonder

Irene Brown's travelling tent brought contemporary art to rural venues and a new audience.

Uta Kögelsberger - The Producers

This series of talks looks at curatorial practices and how they're reacted to changes in the industry.

Narbi Price - The Pitman Painters

The exhibition of unseen Pitman Painters pictures was curated by Narbi Price and shown at Ashington's Woodhorn Museum.

Chris Jones - Murakami

This project examines Murakami's work 40 years after the writer initially decided to write his novel. (Link opens PDF)

Henry Coombes - Showreel

Henry Coombes is a film-maker and therapist, his Showreel looks at a range of his film work.

Tim Shaw - Plain Changes

Tim Shaw's work explores what changes can be made to traditional church bell-ringing using modern technology.

Uta Kögelsberger - Uncertain Subjects Part II

Uta Kogelsberger's project documents and profiles people who feel like aliens in their own country in the face of Brexit.

Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience

An interdisciplinary research project that critically examines the role and practice of temporary visual art commissioning within heritage properties in Britain today.

Jane and Louise Wilson - Undead Sun

This collaborative project explored the subject of World War One and mechanics borne out of the conflict.

Mapping contemporary art in the heritage experience

Find out more about mapping contemporary art in the heritage experience.

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