The shows were accompanied by two new publications with contributed texts by the art critics William Feaver and Matthew Collings.Ī selection of the work is scheduled to tour the UK as part of an Arts Council England funded group exhibition entitled ‘Where We Live’, from late 2021 through 2022.
It engages with the Permanent Collection of Ashington Group paintings (held in perpetuity at Woodhorn Museum), in its construction and shared longitudinal study of the locale, and provides a neoteric position on how contemporary practice can have an informed, discursive relationship with historical collections. This was accompanied by a major new body of my own work, drawing upon innovative painting and psychogeographical practices, ‘The Ashington Paintings’ investigates the changed landscape of a common geography. This comprised two new exhibitions ‘Pitmen Painters Unseen’ gathered previously un-exhibited work, forming the largest and most complete exhibition of the Ashington Group’s work ever staged. Using three distinct methodologies - archival research, curatorial and creative practices, my AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award research challenges dominant narratives about the Group’s intentions, methods, output and legacy.Īt Woodhorn Museum, in Ashington, Northumberland, in Summer 2018, I presented ‘Pitmen Painters Resurfacing’, a major public outcome, which presented a new invigorated position on the work of the Ashington Group. However, the main narratives are very limited (a single text by William Feaver, ‘Pitmen Painters – The Ashington Group 1934 -1984’ and Lee Hall’s play, ‘The Pitmen Painters’). The work of the Ashington Group (also known as the Pitmen Painters) is a celebrated historical record of a working community, held in great affection in the North East and further afield.
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Repainting the Pitmen: The Ashington Art Group & Robert Lyon - Rethinking Legacy through Archive and Practice
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The Institute for Creative Arts Practice provides an important route for engagement and networking with creative practice-led researchers across the University.Īll students are also encouraged to engage fully with professional and academic opportunities - for example exhibiting, attending and presenting at conferences, and organising symposia and conferences.īelow are summaries of the projects of both current and recent PhD students. All students are encouraged to participate in the department's and the university's wider research culture by involvement with research seminars, including chairing seminars with visiting artists/researchers. The department is strongly committed to supporting artists' individual practices through practice-led research. Students whose projects are more digitally-oriented are based in Culture Lab with its attendant facilities.
We support a wide range of both theoretical and studio-based practice and research across Fine Art, Digital Cultures and Art History.Īll staff in the unit are available as supervisors, and as a large university, many of our most exciting projects challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries with supervision from across different subject domains. PhD Study in Fine Art at Newcastle Universityįine Art has a thriving community of PhD students.
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