Research fellows 1995
Each year our fellowship programme enables artists and researchers to develop their work.
In 1995 our visiting fellows included Sighle Breathnach-Lynch, Kerstin Mey, Elisabeth Rosser and David Ward.
Sighle Breathnach-Lynch
Curator of Irish Paintings, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Research Fellowship
1995
The Representation of Workers in the Hamo Thornycroft Archive
Having worked on public monuments in the context of Irish nationalism, Breathnach-Lynch wished to test her findings against the ‘mainland’ context of commemorative statuary as documented in our Archive of Sculptors’ Papers (and in particular that of Hamo Thornycroft), in other local repositories and by English scholars.
Kerstin Mey
Chair of Fine Art, University of Belfast
Research Fellowship
1995
‘Duel’: Tracey Mackenna and Karla Sachse
Exploring her interest in artistic identities, Kerstin Mey brought together artists Tracey Mackenna and Karla Sachse to make an exhibition on-site in the Institute’s Gallery 4. Her published account of this ‘arranged encounter’ is published in Duel (Essay 12).
Elisabeth Rosser
Sculptor, London
Research Fellowship
1995
The Ugly Edge
Galvanised by her encounter with artist William Tucker, Elisabeth Rosser applied for a fellowship to pursue the question of how to talk and write about sculpture that looks lumpen and unshaped, and to ask why sculpture involving modelling and touch has increasingly been undervalued.
David Ward
Artist, Wiltshire
Research Fellowship
1995
Rodin, ‘The Age of Bronze’
Rodin’s The Age of Bronze had only recently arrived in Leeds when David Ward applied to study its particular history and its remarkable patina.
Using performance, film and photography, Ward’s research culminated in a beautiful book entitled Casting the Die: ‘The Age of Bronze’ in Leeds.
