Research fellows 1999
Each year our fellowship programme enables artists and researchers to develop their work.
In 1999 our visiting fellows included Victoria Avery, Sorcha Carey, Matthew Craske, Jason Edwards, Deanna Fernie, Thomas Flynn, Rachel Green, Jonathan Meuli, Martina Droth, Chris Evans, David Getsy and Deborah Schultz.
Victoria Avery
Cambridge University
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
1999
The Work of Alessandro Vittoria 1524/25-1608
Interested in all aspects of Italian Renaissance sculpture, Dr Victoria Avery has spent the last few years conducting extensive archival research into the bronze industry of Renaissance Venice and the commissioning, production, use, display, reception and recycling of objects in bronze (from sculptures and works of art to bells and guns). This research has recently been written up into a monograph to be published by The British Academy.
The subject of Avery’s doctoral thesis and Henry Moore Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship is the sculptural output of Italian artist Alessandro Vittoria (1524/25-1608). She is currently working on a monograph with catalogue raisonnée and documentary appendix for publication in 2010/11.
Sorcha Carey
Courtauld Institute of Art
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
1999
Matthew Craske
Oxford Brookes University
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
1999
Jason Edwards
University of York
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
1999-2001
Alfred Gilbert’s Aestheticism and late Nineteenth Century Aesthetic Culture
Deanna Fernie
University of Ulster
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
1999-2001
Literary Sculptors: The reciprocity between Sculpture and Writing in Nineteenth Century American Art and Literature
Thomas Flynn
Sussex University
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
1999
Rachel Green
University of Manchester
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
1999-2001
The Use and Meaning of the Corporeal Fragment in Sculpture Between 1830 and 1999
Jonathan Meuli
University of East Anglia
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
1999
Martina Droth
University of Reading
Research Fellowship
1999
Sir Alfred Gilbert: The Sam Wilson Chimneypiece
Alfred Gilbert’s bronze chimneypiece in Leeds City Art Gallery was the focus of Martina Droth’s research, forming part of her PhD on the role of ornament in sculpture.
The fellowship resulted in Ornament as Sculpture (Issue 30 of our Essays on Sculpture Journal) and a display of Gilbert’s maquettes for the chimneypiece in the Institute’s exhibition Eternal Return.
Droth maintained an active relationship with the Institute following her fellowship. While at the University of Reading she negotiated the transfer of a group of Thornycroft maquettes to the Leeds Sculpture Collections, and took up the role of Research Co-ordinator at the Henry Moore Institute in 2002.
Chris Evans
Artist, London
Research Fellowship
1999
Gemini Sculpture Park
Chris Evans’ interviews with managing directors based at the Gemini Business Park, Leeds, resulted in an exhibition of screenprints and new art works. The interviews and the project were documented in the booklet Gemini Sculpture Park: UK Corporate Sculpture Consultancy (2001).
David Getsy
Art Institute of Chicago
Research Fellowship
1999
The Erotics of the Body in the New Sculpture
Working particularly on the Thornycroft collection in the Intitute’s Archive of Sculptors’ Papers, David Getsy’s fellowship informed his doctoral thesis on late nineteenth-century British sculpture, and contributed directly to his book Body doubles: Sculpture in Britain 1877-1905 (Yale, 2004).
Deborah Schultz
University of Sussex
Research Fellowship
1999
Maps and Journeys in Contemporary Art
Deborah Schultz looked at strategies of mapping and the use of space in the work of artists such as Richard Long, Hamish Fulton and Andy Goldsworthy.
Part of her research was published in the essay ‘The Conquest of Space’: On the Prevalence of Maps in Contemporary Art (Issue 35 of our Essays on Sculpture Journal).
‘The Conquest of Space’: On the Prevalence of Maps in Contemporary Art
Essays on Sculpture No. 35
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