Loughborough University School of Art and Design (LUSAD)
CRITICAL STUDIES FORUM
The Critical Studies Forum takes place on Wednesdays, 12.30 to 2.00pm, in
the LUSAD conference room. Each talk is scheduled to last around 45 minutes,
with time afterwards for questions and group discussion. Lunch will be
provided.
The year starts with speakers invited by the Drawing Research Group the
first of whom is JOHN WILLATS on 10th October - everyone invited.
Routes to Loughborough and campus map can be found at:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/index.html
Drawing Research Group speakers are as follows:
Date: 10 October
Speaker: John Willats
Subject: drawing systems and denotation systems.
John Willats is an artist and internationally renowned researcher in
drawing. Co-author (with Fred Dubery) of Perspective and Other Drawing
Systems (1983), he has developed an approach to the analysis and
classification of drawings based on the types of drawing systems used, which
include linear perspective, inverse perspective, oblique projection, and
topological systems of organization. In his most recent book, Art and
Representation (1997), John Willats has augmented this approach to include
the various 'denotation systems' employed by artists through history.
'John Willats presents a new approach to the methods artists use to depict
the world ... All art historians and critics as well as psychologists
interested in drawing or painting will need to become familiar with
Willats's approach. Art and Representation will create a considerable stir
and will change the way both critics and the public think about art.'
(Stuart Sutherland, Professor Emeritus, Sussex University).
Date: 24 October
Speaker: Angela Kingston
Subject: contemporary drawing practice.
Angela Kingston is Senior Researcher in Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art,
and has been instrumental in setting up drawing residencies with
international artists. She is a curator with extensive knowledge of
drawing, and her presentation will look at contemporary drawing practice.
Date: 7 November
Speaker: Sarah Simblet
Subject: practice-based drawing research.
Sarah Simblet completed her Ph.D. at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of
HE. Her research has focused on how the study of human dissection can be
extended into her drawing practice, and on the use of line and perspective
conventions to describe passages between the interior and exterior of the
human body. Her talk will revolve around her own experience of drawing
research. In addition, there will be a talk by Margaret Boden:
Date: 28 November
Speaker: Margaret Boden.
Subject: creativity and research.
Renowned Author of The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms (1990), Professor
Margaret Boden of Sussex University will present her classification of the
various types of creativity, and will discuss the relationship between
creativity and originality in art/design research.
To be arranged:
Jenny West will talk about her work in the gallery, later this term.
John Tchalenko has been invited to speak at a future forum.
Jane Tormey
Loughborough University
School of Art & Design
Epinal Way
Loughborough
Leics. LE11 3TU
Tel. Direct Line 01509 228942
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