Research

This year the following internships have been awarded for projects undertaken by four MA students from Leeds University's School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.

Public Sculpture in Leeds

Roslyn Stanwick, studying for an MA in History of Art, will be collating information on a work of public sculpture in Leeds. Using the HMI archive as a starting point, the project is anticipated to explore many of Leeds' libraries and landmarks.

Sculpture and Comic Art

Rachel Cunningham Clark (MA Arts & Culture) will be researching the relationship between sculpture and comic, cartoon, caricature and animation art.  This project is intended to feed into a forthcoming workshop, and a wider academic conference, in 2011.

Savage Messiah

Harriet Allen (MA History of Art) will be focusing on a forthcoming spring 2011 exhibition which highlights the ways in which the life of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) entered mainstream culture. The highly influential French-born sculptor's identity has since become mythologised through the publication of the biographical novel Savage Messiah in 1930.

Helen Chadwick Archive 

Liz Stainforth (MA Museum & Gallery Studies) will be working with the archive, researching and cataloguing the various films, documentaries and audio records about the life and work of artist Helen Chadwick.