art schools



A collaborative project with Matthew Cornford (University of Brighton) documenting the sites of British art schools.

Exhibitions
  • Hippo Campus: Where We Learn. Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance. 14 Feb-06 June 2020. [Group show]
  • The North West Art School Record Machine. Bury Art Museum ad Sculpture Center. 12 October 2019-25 January 2020.
  • The Art Schools of the North West. Bluecoat Liverpool. November 2018-March 2019.
Publications
  • The Art School and the Culture Shed. Kingston: Center for Useless Splendor, 2014.
  • 'The Art School in Ruins,' Journal of Visual Culture 11.1(2012): 58-83.
Talks
  • 'From the Local Art School to Globalised Bohemia'. Visiting Speaker Programme. Winchester School of Art (2014). [watch]
  • • 'The Lost World of the Provincial British Art School'. Reflections on the Art School. Tate Britain (2011). [watch]
Media

The Art School and the Culture Shed
  • David Barrett, Art Monthly, June 2014 [here] 'utterly essential'
  • Ken Worpole, Caught by the River, June 2014 [here]
  • Paul Gorman, June 2014 [here] 'packs a hell of a punch'
  • Paperweight Radio: The Art School (S2E5), Thursday 17 July 2014, 3.30pm, Resonance FM.

The Art Schools of the North West
  • Podcast: The Art Schools of the North West, Resonance FM, 19 January 2019 [here]
  • ‘Art schools remind us of what powerful civic aspiration looks like’, The Double Negative: Arts criticism & cultural commentary, 15 January 2019 [here]
  • ‘Art Students on Film’, Art in Liverpool, March 8 2019 [here]
  • Review at Creativetourist.com [here]
  • Review at ArtinLiverpool.com [here] 
  • Review at Corridor8 [here]
  • Review by Jack Welsh in The Journal of Visual Art Practice 18.2 (2019): 201–202. [here]