Contact V&MCRC

 

Co Director: Professor Fran Lloyd
email: vamcrc@kingston.ac.uk

 

 

Visual & Material Culture Research Centre

 

MRes and PhD Research Students

 

Current Students

 

Benjamin Angwin - Pre-War Episodes of Modernism in England: An Investigation into the practices of Roger Fry and Herbert Read.

 

Maria Aroni - The 'New' Curation: Questioning Conventional Notions of the Exhibition & The Art Institution in Europe since the mid-1990's PhD

 

Jim Backhouse - From the Collective Phantom to the Commons. On the contribution of the Luther Blissett project and the Association of Autonomous Astronauts towards a new collective politicised subject.

 

Robert Garnett The work of contemporary art criticism (PhD)

Lisa Hockemeyer Italian ceramics, 1943-58: a synthesis of avant-garde ideals, craft traditions and popular culture (PhD)

 

Mercy Kagia - Objectivity and the Ephemeral - A Reportage Artist in Society (PhD)

 

John Keefe - Title to be confirmed

 

Juliette Kristensen Writing Acts: Body, Technology & Practice (PhD).

 

Nick Lloyd - Complexity and sculptural objects in place and time (PhD)

 

Rosalind McKever - Futurism and the Past: Heritage, Tradition and Italy's First Avant-Garde Movement

 

Patrick O'Neill The portrayal of youth in post war American & British cinema (PhD)

 

Alice Planel - Franco-Algerian Contemporary Art: Cultural Memory in a Global Worth

 

Ann Rau Dawes - How Jewish Emigre Artists settled in the UK after the Second World War

 

Yoshiko Shimada - Title to be confirmed

 

Val Stephenson An examination, analysis & comparison of the use of language as a commentary to traditional Chinese brush painting & contemporary western art where appreciation goes beyond logic (PhD)

 

Lina Stergiou Architectural Avant-Garde (PhD)

 

Eliza Tan - Haunted screens, spectral bodies: Memory, identity and modernity through the lens of contemporary moving image & performance from Asia since the 1990s

 

Lu Tang Exploring the meaning of 'Original Ecology' & 'Cultural Ecology' of Folk Art in China (PhD)

 

Portia Ungley Leon Bakst: the intersection of Orientalism & visual culture in avant-garde Paris (PhD). Further details

 

Sarah Zaidan Undressing the Mythic The Adventures of Mythic Man: A Structuralist Approach to Ethics and Morals in Superhero Comics (PhD) Further details.

 

Aleksandra Zavjalova - Title to be confirmed

 

Graduated Students

 

Kathryn Baird (nee Main)
To What Extent Is There An Opportunity For Contemporary Art Consumption Among London Based Small To Medium Enterprises (SMEs)? (MA by Research)

Judith Carmel-Arthur Rosenthal Ceramics: Themes in Company and Product Identity Reconfiguration (PhD)

 

David Cowlard Photourbanism: an alternative to architectural photography (MA Research)

 

Ruth Debney Investigating the practice of Art Publishing in England during the 1890's (MA Research)

 

Hazel Frizell Representations of specific concerns of the women's liberation movement in British feminist art, 1970-1978 (PhD). Further details

 

Rahat Masud Figuration and spiritualism in post-partition Pakistan: contemporary practices (PhD). Further details

 

Daniel Palmer Exhibiting Practice: Retrospective Survey Exhibitions of Conceptual Art 1989 - 2000 (PhD)

 

Keren Protheroe Jacobean and Jazz: Printed Textile Design in a London Design Studio 1919-1924 (MA by Research)

 

Michael Robinson The Dealer System in Early 20th Century Britain (MA by Research) - 2004 AHRB studentship.

 

Valerie Webb Interiors by Camden Town Group (MPhil)

 

Mary Pearce Early 20th Century Colour Theory (PhD)

 

Anthony Escott Alan Cuthbert: Colour Theory and Practice & Art School Change in Britain, (PhD)