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Participants
Key Artists
Two artists, Catrin Webster and Shauna McMullan, are creating new work for the project and leading interactive visual journeys at the workshops. Their previous works explore the central themes of this workshop, and they are highly experienced in engaging the public in art practice and in articulating their ideas to diverse audiences.
Catrin Webster is a Part-Time Lecturer, Fine Art, Swansea Metropolitan University and is completing her PhD: Intimate Distance - A painter in the Contemporary Landscape
View a description of her project Oriel: Viewfinder.
Select Works:
- Locomotion (painting) British Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
- Mapping Wales (painting) Muscat, Oman
- Walking in Rome (painting & performance) Gallery of Contemporary Art, Rome
- Travel Project (visual journeys) using trains as a mobile studio in collaboration with school children, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Shauna McMullan is a sculptor and lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art. View her profile on the school website.
Select Works:
- Travelling the Distance (porcelain sculpture) for the Scottish Parliament
- Windborne (Saharan dust sculpture) The Met Office, Exeter
- Dislocations (map inspired installation) travelling exhibition
- Border Works (installation) NCA in Lahore, Pakistan
Artists
Other artists are participating in the project, they include:
- Hana Mal Allah Painting, Installation, Iraq, London based
- Rashad Salim Painting, Installation, Iraq, London based
- Michal Rovner, Video Art, Photography, Sculpture, Israel, Venice Biennale 2003
- Alessandro Petti Sculpture, architecture, installation; Palestine, Italy: Stateless Nation 2003 Venice Biennale
- Sandi Hilal Sculpture, architecture, installation; Palestine, Italy: Stateless Nation 2003 Venice Biennal
Academics
A diverse group of academics from various institutions are also participants:
- Nadje Al-Ali Anthropology/SOAS, University of London
- Susan Alcock Archaeology/Classics, Brown University, USA
- John Dewsbury Geography, University of Bristol
- Michael Dumper Politics, University of Exeter
- Chris Gosden Archaeology, Oxford University
- Linda Hurcombe Archaeology, University of Exeter
- Nick Kaye Drama, University of Exeter
- Ilan Pappe History, University of Exeter
- Mike Pearson, Performance Studies, Aberytswyth University
- Michael Shanks Archaeology, Stanford University, USA
- John Wylie Geography, University of Exeter
Advisors to the Project
- Catherine Brace Head of Geography, University of Exeter
- Gina Cox Curator, University Art Collection, Exeter
- Regenia Gagnier English, University of Exeter
- Margo Greenwood - Education Project Manager for DAISI (Devon Arts in Schools Initiative)
- Adeline Johns-Petra English, University of Exeter
- Ruba Salih Anthropology, Institute of Arabic & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
- Kathryn Yusoff Artist, Geography lecturer, University of Exeter
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