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Sarah Casey
Lecturer: Art
Department: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Degree: MA Fine Art (Distinction), Lancaster University; BA(Hons)First Class History of Art - History and Philosophy of Science , University of Leeds
Associated research centres and groups: Art, Languages of Form, Languages of Process
Current Teaching
I currently teach sculpture and installation on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year studio practice modules. In previous years I havealso supervised the studio practice of postgraduates on the LICA MA.
Research Interests
My research is practice based, undertaken primarily through studio work. An ongoing concern is in probing the complex cultural, social, material and visual value of delicacy to find ways to analyse, interpret and represent the fugitive or visually elusive. On a formal level, this practice is typically characterised by a cross-fertilization of spatial and sculptural languages, processes and materials with those of drawing.
I am currently investigating hybrid approaches to drawing, informed by collaborations with medics, archaeologists and conservators which explore commonalties between approaches in drawing and those in professions that must cope with the delicate or fugitive in their routine practice. I am particlarly interested in what the analytical tools of Art might share with invesigative procedure in these Sciences. This research is grounded in fieldwork/ site visits and has seen me working in collaboration with scientists and other professionals on sites from Hadrian's Wall to Kensington Palace. Most recently, I have been working with the underwear collections at Kensington Palace, where I have recently been offered the opportunity to exhibit in 2012. This recent work also explores themes of attraction, intimacy and revelation in relation to historical traditions in drawing and values in contermporary fine art drawing practice.
Explicit aims of this work are: identifying shared practice around mutual concerns with 'delicacy'; developing new studio methods; and generating forms of documentation that facilitate understanding of studio methodologies to establish a transferable model for cross-discipline knowledge exchange.
This emphasis on method and documentation reflects a further research interest in finding ways to discuss, understand and share knowledge of artists' studio methodologies.
Exhibitions and Publications
International Juried Exhibitions
2009 The Art of Research, Helsinki, Finland
2009 5th International Drawing Biennale, Melbourne, Australia, Victoria, Au.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Glimpses, Roadside Attractions Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2008 The Godiva Chronicles, Glassbox Gallery (part of the
A Thing About Machines Arts Festival 2008) Coventry
2008 Interstices, Rare Book Archives, Lancaster University Library
Selected other Group/Joint Exhibitions
2011 Sketch Drawing Prize 2011, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough
2011 The Moment of Privacy has Passed, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
2010 Open Drawing, Centrespace Gallery , Bristol
2010 Paperworks 3, Bury Art Gallery and Museum, Bury
2010 Box of Desires, 2nd Zine for Recent Drawing exhibited C4RD, London
2010 Here Today Gone Tomorrow, Fringe Festival, Bath
2010 Middle of Nowhere, Departure Gallery, London
2010 Experimentality, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
2010 Conversations with the Collection, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
2009 100sqft, Boleyn Old Boys, London
2009 A Thing About Machines 2009, Herbert Gallery, Coventry
2009 Unfolding, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
2009 On CDOs and Double Clubs, August Art, London
2009 Triptych Papers, The Project Space, Norwich
2008 The Denouement, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster
2008 Otherwise Occupied, Site specific Installation, Lancaster
2006 Group Show, Bianco Nero, Stokesley, Cleveland
2004 25 RUPA Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
Publications
'Laying Practice on the Line' in The Art of Research : Processes, Results, Contributions , Conference 22-24 Nov 2009, Full paper http://tm.uiah.fi/tutpor/AOR2009/Casey_paper.pdf
'Drawing Delicate Connections' in Sliwiniska, B. ( ed.) Interrogations: Approaches to Interdisciplinarity in Art and Design Research, Loughbourgh University; DeMontfort University, 2009
Drawings included in 'Box of Desires', the 2ndZ4RD, Artist book, edition of 20, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, 2010.
Conference Papers & Workshops
2011 Recto Verso : Redeifining The Sketchbook, Lincoln University
2010 Drawing Research Network Conference 2010: Observation, Mapping, Dialogue, University of Brighton, UK
2010 Invisible Lines and Parallel Practice, European Association of Science Studies Conference, Trento University, Italy
2010 Experimentality, International Conference, Lancaster University
2009 The Art of Research, Taik, University of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Creative Practice, Creative Research, Lancaster University
2009 Interrogations, AHRC Conference, Loughborough University
2009 Doing Research in Art and Design, MIRIAD, Manchester
2009 Triptych Papers, Norwich University College of the Arts.
Awards and Funding
2011 Lancaster University Small Grant for ' Hidden Drawers' Project
2010 Faculty Conference Travel Bursary
2009 Public Award, 5th International Drawing Biennale, Melbourne Australia.
2009 Faculty Conference Travel Bursary
2009 Best Paper , Interrogations, AHRC Conference, Loughborough University
2009 Peel Studentship Award
2008 FASS Alumni Research Bursary
Associated Keywords: Archives, Art, Art/science collaboration, Contemporary fine art, Contemporary fine art drawing practice, Installation art, Materiality, Sublime, The body
Contact Details
Tel: +44 (0)1524 593172
Room: County Main, B169
Office Hour: Monday 12.30-1.30pm
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