Staff Research
Our first directory of staff research can be downloaded here.
This Directory celebrates research undertaken by our staff in the three-year period 2005-2008 (when our title was the Arts Institute at Bournemouth) and showcases work from within the range of academic disciplines that are the raison d’être of our specialist curriculum and that fall under the broad categories of art, design, media and performance.
A summary of Case Studies follows:
Eric Butcher
Eric’s work has been
exhibited nationally and internationally since 1993. He was the
CAIR (Centre for Art International Research) Multiple Perspectives
Fellow (2007), Liverpool School of Art/Liverpool John Moores
University. He also held an Arts Institute at Bournemouth Research
Fellowship (2007). His practice-led research explores the selective
articulation of the surfaces of aluminium structures through the
use of paint and resin.
Full details of Eric's research can be found here
Dr. Robert Cotton
Bob’s current research informs the creation of a history of innovation in media since 1900: an illustrated chronology or timeline of the dominant developments in media, communications and computing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The history takes the form of an illustrated book, an experimental website and a graphic printed timeline for exhibition display.
Full details of Robert's research can be found here
David Evans
David’s research interests concern historic avant-gardes and their legacy, appropriation, and ‘poor photography’. He has published extensively on photography and photomontage. His catalogue raisonné of the German montage artist John Heartfield was published by Kent Fine Art, New York in 1992 and since that time, he has contributed to major Spanish and French exhibitions on Heartfield (2001 and 2006 respectively).
Full details of David's research can be found here
Robert Frith
Robert’s research interests are about boundaries and borderlines; his design work considers how everyday assumptions about features such as fencing and gates may be re-evaluated and represented in ways that emphasise organic form and contemporary design and materials. Robert exhibited his work at Design UK (Tokyo, 2005), Primal Refuge (Berlin, 2005), Designers’ Block, London and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2006). He was awarded a Crafts Council Development Award in 2006.
Full details of Robert's research can be found here
Kirsten Hardie
Kirsten’s current Ph.D research explores the representation of people as brand icons on food packaging. Kirsten’s other research interests include Kitsch; popular taste; flock: its use and associative values and creativity. With co-curator Pam Langdown, Kirsten organised the exhibition and co-authored the catalogue Flockage: The Flock Phenomenon (Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, 2008) supported by the Arts Council and the Textile Society. She also co-organised and presented at the Flockage Symposium (2008). Kirsten has published many articles and has presented papers on flock at numerous conferences
Full details of Kirsten's research can be found here
Professor Jim Hunter
Jim’s research is concerned with the practice of painting and is a sustained exploration of the potential of an abstract visual language to offer an equivalence of sensory experience. Current projects explore the medium of watercolour within contemporary fine art and its capacity for sustained experimentation, interrogating the ways it can carry meaning within the context of critical discourse. Jim’s paintings and sketchbook studies - outdoor and studio-based – are extending the interests identified during a three-month sabbatical period supported by the Institute in 2005-6 which allowed an intensive period of investigation in pursuit of innovative responses to the particularities of place and moment.
Full details of Jim's research can be found here
Stephanie James
Stephanie’s work focuses on curation and the dynamic between space and the creative process. Her work involves exhibiting, organising and curating exhibitions, while as a practising artist, Stephanie is also interested in the context in which artists show work. Current projects explore the ways in which artworks are used by galleries to construct knowledge and interrogate the wider role of the gallery for society.
Full details of Stephanie's research can be found here
Adele Keeley
Adele’s current research developed from her MA thesis ‘Costume Design: Digital Platform for Design Communication’, exploring new creative techniques for producing costume illustration by engaging with digital technology and as applied to a series of theatre productions.
Full details of Adele's research can be found here
Susan Lambert
Susan’s current research explores the role of plastics in design and their impact on life and lifestyles. Susan was awarded Museum, Libraries and Archive Council funding in 2007-8 for a project ‘Making the Most of Your Plastics’, organising and running four workshops each supported by an external partner.
Full details of Susan's research can be found here
Joel Lardner
Joel is a practising illustrator whose commissions have taken him into a range of disciplines/activities including advertising campaigns, fashion magazines and music graphics. He has made regular editorial contributions to The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. To date clients have included Adidas, BBC Radio 1, Full Circle, Greenpeace, The Ministry of Sound, Motorola, RIBA, Sony Europe, Dazed and Confused, Harvard Business Review and The New York Times.
Full details of Joel's research can be found here
Aaron Schuman
Aaron is a photographer, editor, writer and critic. His principal research interests concern the central issues, current developments and future responsibilities of contemporary documentary photography, and how these may be defined and enhanced through practice, dissemination and critical debate.
Full details of Aaron's research can be found here
Dr. Paul Ward
Paul’s Ph.D focused on the emergence of Animation Studies as an interdisciplinary field. Current research explores the interface between animation and a range of other cultural practices, including videogames, documentary/non-fiction filmmaking and computer-generated imagery. It investigates the convergence/dialectic between ‘animated’ and ‘live action’ media and examines the history and theory of documentary practices.
Full details of Paul's research can be found here
Professor Rachel Worth
Rachel’s research interests focus on the history of non-elite clothing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including the history of ready-to wear and mass-produced clothing and retailing; the definition of methodologies for the study of dress history, and issues of representation in relation to the analysis and interpretation of visual and literary sources.
Full details of Rachel's research can be found here