Research fellows 2006
Each year our fellowship programme enables artists and researchers to develop their work.
In 2006 our visiting fellows included Anna Dezeuze, David Hulks, Uta Kornmeier, Mariko Leino, Anna Lovatt, Cassandra Albinson, Franka Hornschmeyer, Claudia Mesch and Mark Wilsher.
Anna Dezeuze
University of Manchester
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2005-07
The ‘Almost Nothing’: Dematerialisation and the Politics of Precariousness
David Hulks
University of East Anglia, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2004-06
Adrian Stokes and the Changing Object of Art (1930-72)
Dr David Hulks is currently conducting research into sculpture studies in the twentieth-century avant-garde (inter-war, post-war, post-minimalist, contemporary) and public sculpture (Elizabethan origins, classicism, East Anglian survey).
He is also interested in world art studies (new theoretical perspectives, historiography) and art education: critical curriculum (critical studies), art & assessment (national curriculum), cross-cultural (comparative studies), multidisciplinary (cross-curricular and collaborative working).
Uta Kornmeier
Oxford University
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2004-06
Taken from Life: Madame Tussaud and the Pantheonic waxworks display
Mariko Leino
Oxford University
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2005-07
Italian Renaissance Plaquettes in Context
Anna Lovatt
University of Nottingham
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2005-07
The role of drawing in New York based sculptural practices of the late 1960s and early 70s
In her examination of the relationship between drawing and sculpture in this period, Dr Anna Lovatt pays particular attention to the work of Ruth Vollmer, Mel Bochner, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt and Dorothea Rockburne.
Her current research interests include Post-war American drawing, particularly in the context of post-Minimal and Conceptual art; the diagram in twentieth-century art and theory; transatlantic dialogue in Conceptual art; and legacies of the 1960s in contemporary artistic practice.
Cassandra Albinson
Assistant Curator, Yale Centre for British Art
Research Fellowship
2006
Dalou’s seated female figures
Cassandra Albinson carried out research for an exhibition around a terracotta statuette depicting Mrs. George Howard, by the nineteenth-century French sculptor Aimé-Jules Dalou, which is in the collection of Castle Howard.
Dalou’s seated female figures have been mostly seen as anonymous genre statuettes, but the known identify of the Castle Howard piece suggests that such works can be read much more specifically as portraits. Albinson will curate an exhibition of these figures for the Institute in 2008.
Franka Hornschmeyer
Artist, Berlin
Research Fellowship
2006
The Physiological and Psychological Experiences of Space
By treating space like a material, artist Franta Hornschmeyer creates installations that redefine the physical architecture and the subjective experience of a room’s structure and dimensions.
During her fellowship she investigated the spaces of the Henry Moore Institute and the wider environment of Leeds, returning on 12 October for Leeds Light Night 2007 to present her take on the city.
Claudia Mesch
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Research Fellowship
2006
Büro Berlin
Claudio Mesch examined key projects undertaken in the 1970s by the Büro Berlin, a collective that involved Hermann Pitz, Fritz Rahmann, Raimund Kummer and other artists, in creating collaborative installations that tested the possibilities and limits for conceptual art practice in public spaces.
Mesch’s research will form part of a book-length study on Art and Demarcation: Around the Berlin Wall 1961-1989.
Mark Wilsher
Artist, Norwich
Research Fellowship
2006
Abstract Public Sculpture
As well as being a practising artist, Mark Wilsher works as a writer, teacher, and curator. He has recently been making works that re-engage with abstract public sculptures dating from the late 1940s to the 1980s. Such works – often large composites made of metal, and many by artists that have been forgotten today – continue to have a life in the form of photographs in old journals and catalogues.
Wilsher used his fellowship to study these works, and his resulting body of new work will be on show at the Institute in 2008. In 2007 his work was included in the Institute show Drawing on Sculpture: Graphic Interventions on the Photographic Surface.
