Research fellows 2001
Each year our fellowship programme enables artists and researchers to develop their work.
In 2001 our visiting fellows included Simon Baker, Richard Clay, Victoria Coltman, Donal Cooper, Martina Droth, Jason Edwards, Deanna Fernie, Rachel Green, Julia Kelly, Jonathan Vickery, Claire Bishop, Caroline Kirsop, Suzanne MacLeod and Craig Martin.
Simon Baker
University College London
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2001-03
Involuntary Monuments: Surrealism and The French Revolution
Richard Clay
University College London
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2000-01
Methodological Problems Associated with the Destruction of Public Sculpture During the French Revolution
Victoria Coltman
Courtauld Institute of Art
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2000-01
Fabricating the Antique: Neo-classical Sculpture in England, c. 1763-1800
Dr Victoria Coltman’s topic of research for her fellowship at the Institute was the collecting of classical sculptures in late eighteenth-century Britain.
Her current research interests include the historiography of classical sculpture; the sculptural economy in eighteenth-century Britain and Rome; sculptural monuments to Scots in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century; and eighteenth-century portraits of sculptors and portrait busts.
Donal Cooper
Courtauld Institute of Art
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2001-02
Saint’s Shrines and the Tomb Sculpture of Uncanonised Beati in late Medieval Italy
Martina Droth
University of Reading
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2001-02
The Sculptural Decorative: The Role of Ornament in Late Nineteenth-Century Sculpture
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
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
Julia Kelly
University of Manchester
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2001-02
Art Writing, Sculpture and Ethnography in France and Africa: a comparative study of Michel Leiri’s approach, c. 1925-1971
Jonathan Vickery
University of Essex
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2000-01
A Historical Reassessment of the Debate on Minimal Art in the 1960s
Dr Jonathan Vickery spent his time at the Institute examining modernist art theory, aesthetics and modern sculpture, particularly in the work of Anthony Caro and his contemporaries.
His current research interests include the theory and analysis of contemporary art and cultural theory, policy, management and organisation within the context of the new creative economy.
Claire Bishop
Royal College of Art
Research Fellowship
2001
Installation Art and Dark/’De-differentiated’ Space
Finishing her PhD research, Claire Bishop looked at the experience of installation art, where the boundaries between the viewer’s body and the surrounding space are temporarily lost. Bishop also contributed to curatorial discussions regarding the Institute’s exhibition programme. Her research is published in Installation Art: A Critical History (Tate, 2005).
Caroline Kirsop
Research Fellowship
2001
Notions of Video and Film as Sculpture
Focusing on the space and physicality of the moving image, Caroline Kirsop considered the sculptural effects of film, and their impact on the experimental design of exhibition spaces.
Suzanne MacLeod
University of Leicester
Research Fellowship
2001
The Historical Development of Open-air Sites for Sculpture Display
Coming from a museum background, Suzanne MacLeod considered the curatorial act of positioning sculpture in a landscape in relation to its histories, traditions and established conventions. Her fellowship directly fed into her teaching in the Museum Studies Department, and into her PhD, which examines the production of spaces for art.
Craig Martin
Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College
Research Fellowship
2001
Historical Precedents of N55
Craig Martin looked at the work of Robert Smithson as a precedent for the work of Danish art collective N55, given their common interest in Buckminster Fuller. He analysed the use of public (functional/monumental) space, and in order to give him a chance to test his theories, we brought over N55 and rolled their Snail Shell System (a portable living unit) around Leeds city centre.