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PhD supervisor: Dr Cadence KinseyĢż
Working title for PhD:Ģż'Indeterminacy and Painting: Helen Frankenthaler, Alma Thomas, Joan Mitchell'Ģż
My PhD explores American abstract painting by women artists from the 1960s and 1970s to now, focussing on the work of Helen Frankenthaler, Alma Thomas and Joan Mitchell. Ģż
Fundamentally, this project addresses indeterminacy within medium-specific painting and studio practices. I argue that there is tension between the indeterminate position of women artists within the 1960s and 1970s, painting as a medium, and a late modernist sensibility. ĢżAs such, this project seeks to generate new insight into the relationship of gender, painting, and abstraction. Examining the constraints upon and possibilities for painting in this period, I within Frankenthaler, Thomas and Mitchellās distinct approaches painting and modes of abstraction. These artistsā practices do not so much advocate for or against painting. Rather, they illuminate three alternate possibilities: moving away from, between, and within painting as structure, site and subject.Ģż
My PhD is fully funded by one of ĀŅĀ׊ćās Graduate Research Scholarships.Ģż
Publications:
- āJust Look at Me Now: Alma Thomasās Intermediality,ā Archives of American Art Journal 66, no.2 (Fall 2025), Forthcoming.
- āāSome Place Elseā? Helen Frankenthalerās Printerly ±Ź²¹¾±²Ō³Ł¾±²Ō²µ²õā, Journal of Contemporary Painting, Special Issue: āHelen Frankenthaler Specialā, 9 no.1, (November 2023): 111-133.
- āBook Review Abstract Expressionists: The Womenā, The Burlington Magazine 165, no.1447, (October 2023):1164. Ģż
- āThe Immateriality of Materiality: Ruth Asawaās Looped Wire Sculpturesā, Immediations, no. 18, (2021).Ģż
Conference Papers:
- āWhat if I used Printing Press Like a Paintbrush? Helen Frankenthalerās Painterly Perseveranceā, ā¦And Painting Continues, Nottingham University, 31st May 2024.
- āA Slice of the Stone Itself; Cutting Through Process and Identity in Helen Frankenthalerās Prints,ā 112th College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 15th February 2024.
- āI Do Not Want to Be Isolated When I Paintā; Alma Thomasā Studio as Workshopā, 67th British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, Keele University, 12th April 2023.
- āArtwork - Craftwork: Alma Thomasā ±Ź²¹¾±²Ō³Ł¾±²Ō²µ²õā, Manufacture Conference, ĀŅĀ׊ć, 10th June 2022.
Teaching:
- Guest Lecturer, āThe American Print Renaissance: Helen Frankenthalerās Prints in the Tate Collectionā, Prints and Printmaking, Department of History of Art, ĀŅĀ׊ć, March 2024.
- Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Methodologies of Art History, Department of History of Art, ĀŅĀ׊ć, January - March 2024
- Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, History of Art and Its Objects: BA Core Course, Department of History Art, ĀŅĀ׊ć, September - December 2022.
AwardsĢż
- 2024: Getty Library Research Grant.
- 2024: Association of Print Scholars Travel Grant.
- 2023: Yale-ĀŅĀ׊ć Collaborative Doctoral Exchange Visiting Researcher Scholarship.
- 2023: British Association of American Studies Conference Bursary. Ģż
- 2022: Terra Foundation for American Art Research Travel Grant.
- 2021-2024: University College London Graduate Research Scholarship.
- 2018: Lander Prize, for the highest-ranked History of Art student, Pembroke College.
- 2018: Foundation Scholarship for outstanding examination results, Pembroke College.
- 2017: Patrick Graham Travel Grant for archival research in the US, Pembroke College.Ģż
- 2016/7: Book Prize, for First Class examination results, Pembroke College.
