Why Should Jewellers Care about the Digital?
In the journal paper ‘Why Should Jewellers care about the Digital’ Koulidou discusses digital jewellery practice from a jeweller’s perspective.
The Beacon: Health & Wellness Futures
This research tested how a public work could:- i) leverage science/tech to improve public health; ii) redefine a discarded urban space to improve well-being; and iii) humanise the development and delivery of this work through multi-generational health activities and public workshops to encourage co-discovery of solutions to help fix the broken US healthcare system.
CIGAR BOX BLUES – THE MAKERS OF A REVOLUTION / THREE CHORDS AND THE TRUTH
Virginia Heath developed and directed this film research project, ‘Cigar Box Blues – The Makers of a Revolution’ (originally titled ‘Three Chords and the Truth’) in collaboration with writer and Design Historian, Paul Atkinson.
Incredibles - Off-Space exhibition
Under the heading INCREDIBLES Zellweger explores the uncanny but also spectacular side of medical body modification and toys with its psychological implications; the lengthening of limbs (phantom limbs), improved performance (plug-ins & add-ons), impossible body parts, optional aesthetics, variations and choice (from the INCREDIBLES series).
From Scotland With Love
Virginia Heath's BAFTA-nominated documentary evokes the spirit of 20th century Scotland
The Natural Forms I II III
This solo exhibition, realised in three evolving, discrete iterations, addresses questions of role attribution, gender construction, and economic exchange (value forms, after Marx).
Hiding in Plain Sight
‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ explores the relationship between staff, space, institution and the visibility of care work, in the disintegrating UK healthcare system.
Lift Share
The work is an enquiry into whether two strangers suffering past family trauma – a Romanian woman in search of a child that was forcibly taken from her and a Scottish musician confronting the death of his abusive father – can discover a shared empathy to help heal their pain.
Gravity: Buckets and Jewels
Gravity is a space for debates about the visual as a critical domain within Fine Art practice. This collaborative project by artists Penny McCarthy, Becky Shaw and Andrew Sneddon examines the many ways the art world deals with its ambivalent and yet enduring relations with artefacts.
‘I See Faces’ - Popular Pareidolia and the Proliferation of Meaning
This chapter, a contribution to a book in the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series, presents findings from an inquiry into the human propensity for making meaning with and from ordinary things and materials.