PhD Supervision Interests

I'm interested in supervising doctoral students in the following areas:

Contemporary fine art practice with either a discipline or interdisciplinary focus in: film, installation, painting, drawing.

Contemporary theoretical and critical debates in art

Landscape and environment: interpreting 'environment'.

Psychotherapeutic landscapes, psychological interventions in art with respect to constructs of the self.

Research Interests

Professor Emma Rose is a researcher in contemporary art with a focus in research in digital film-making, painting and interdisciplinary practices. She has exhibited in over a hundred major national and international galleries and festivals in America, Asia, Europe and Central European countries, which have attracted reviews in journals, newspapers, radio and television programmes. She has published articles and essays in books and journals in the area of history, theory, and culture in contemporary art. Digital film-making and related publications are developed in collaboration with Dr Neil Boynton, Senior Lecturer in Music Technology. The focus of Boynton and Rose is to develop digital film-making in ways that benefit individuals and society in health and well-being, Their research is informed by psychology and psychotherapy and is intended for professionals in academe, health, education, science, healthcare and policy as well as community groups.

Landscapes in Time: A Psychotherapeutic Intervention (2010)

This paper, presented at the University of California, LA, at the International Conference of the Image, develops aesthetic and theoretical concepts that underpinning a film by Emma Rose and Neil Boynton, The paper draws together a range of disciplines, well-established theories of art and culture, philosophy and aesthetics, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, and practices associated with psychotherapy. In particular, the project is informed by new concepts of mentalisation in psychoanalytic theory (Fonagy 1991), cognitive psychology (Morton and Frith 1995), and mentalising in practice (Allen 2006). These ideas can lead to the development of a more intense empathic connection between the self and others, and the self and nature.

Other films produced in collaboration with Neil Boynton in Music: LICA include: the video rush interrogates formal qualities of imagery, some derived from abstract painting. The flow of images, sometimes disrupted by memories, suggests the consciousness of a contemplative viewer preoccupied not only by what is seen but also by its structure or syntax. Informed by the optical effect produced by Bridget Riley in her black-and-white paintings, rush captures the movements of tree trunks, which, when filmed from a fast-moving car, produce a similar flickering, stroboscopic effect disorienting the eye and brain. The digital manipulations and animations create an innovative dialogue between digital and painterly abstraction and photographic realism, their boundaries and their interrelationship.

Projected at 8 x 3 metres it creates an immersive environment with stereo sound and was shown in solo shows in Croatia and Nottingham, in a group exhibition in London at Oxo Tower, and in Inspiration to Order, with a full colour catalogue ISBN: 09773967-7-0, at California State University Art Gallery, The Winchester Gallery, Southampton University, The Gallery, Wimbledon College of Art, and the Art Historians' Annual Conference at the University of Ulster. rush was selected for exhibition at the Egilsstaðir experimental video festival in Iceland and shortlisted for the Alcoa prize. It was also selected for the Short Film Experiment, Bolzano, Italy, and Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand, France. The solo exhibition in Krizic Roban Gallery in Croatia was reviewed in Vijenac, XV (349/350/351), 19.07.07., str.22 the premier independent Croatian culture arts weekly. The solo exhibition of rush at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham, was reviewed in UK Metro Associated newspapers LtD

The film skyWriting investigates how technological advances can be combined with visual and social aesthetic concerns in new and emotionally compelling ways. First, digital technology enables the use of multiple windows or frames of action in a single screen. skyWriting exploits this potential to create new relationships between familiar images: several frames of action depict a subject from different viewpoints to create a new experience, forcing the viewer into an insecure relationship where nothing is taken for granted, each vision cut by a window revealing another world. Second, photographs are morphed into abstract forms: stripes, trails and traces, exposing details and facets of the object not usually subject to scrutiny; the audio material supplements and extends these devices. Exploring the margins between abstraction and photography, the work invites the viewer to evaluate familiar images and narrative sequences in a new way.

Transmediale 05 provided a global critical forum for new media art. There were 9 conference sessions and 60 lectures. skyWriting was part of its permanent exhibition. Transmediale was sponsored by The Council of the German Culture Foundation and there were 66 reviews in newspapers, journals, radio and television programmes. After showing on The Big Screen, Manchester City Centre, Philips used skyWriting to advertise BBC public space broadcasting on Philips LED video screens. It was screened twice during the Korean video festival, selected from the best experimental films of Seoul Net Festival from worldwide submission on the basis of its exploration of new models of screen aesthetics with high production quality. It was screened alongside a lecture at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou Paris, and included in group exhibitions in Edinburgh and Galashiels receiving reviews in The Scotsman and The Herald,.

Emma Rose's paintings and drawings

Solo exhibitions of paintings and drawings in Birmingham, North Tyneside and Bath were the outcome of Rose's practical enquiry into the paradoxical territory between vernacular photography and schematic, geometrical shapes, the components of a wholly abstract image. The investigation explored the area defined by images that are unproblematically representational photographs at one extreme and images wholly composed of overtly abstract elements -- like circles, triangles and diamonds -- at the other. She traverses the territory between painting and photography afresh in the light of digital media and abstraction, observing the visual demands of representational photographs on the one hand, and abstract, optically abstract image components on the other. The result was to create new, dramatically contrasting and complex relationships between photographic, abstract and digital elements; geometrical figures, like triangles, alluding to other images within the work, like fir trees and mountains or pixellated imagery.

When shown with White-out, the projection of skyWriting occupying the whole gallery wall extends the investigation of the boundaries between abstraction and photographic imagery. Animated images echo the sense of movement conveyed by the grouping of geometrical shapes in the paintings. The transformations reveal connections between the way abstract images are seen and the relation of abstraction to the source; in the processed images visual distinctions are perceptible even though features of the original image are emptied-out.

The exhibitions were accompanied by a full-colour catalogue with essays. The work at Mac was seen by 2457 visitors and a review of the exhibition was published in Metro March 11th 2005. The exhibitions were sponsored by Mac Gallery, AdHoc Gallery and Lancaster University.

Additional Information

Selected outputs

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 rush, Krizic Roban Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia. Cinematic video installation made in collaboration with Neil Boynton (Boynton & Rose http://www.boynton-rose.com/ 6' 40". 4th to 11th June

2006 rush, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK. 6th to 17th March

2005 White-out, Hotbath Gallery, Bath, UK. Exhibition of paintings and drawings, 2nd February to 23rd February, Catalogue see below

2005 White-out, mac (Midland Arts Centre) The Foyle Gallery, Birmingham, UK. http://macarts.co.uk/?page=event.html&id=819

Paintings and drawings and skyWriting, cinematic video installation, Boynton & Rose, 13' 46", 12th March to 1st May, Catalogue see below

2005 White-out, AdHoc Gallery Buddle Arts Centre, Wallsend, North Tyneside, UK. www.northtyneside.gov.uk/docs/ arts/E-zine Paintings and drawings and skyWriting, cinematic video installation, Boynton & Rose, 13' 46", 19th September to 29th October, Catalogue see below

2001 Emma Rose, Axis Gallery, Leeds, UK. 8 paintings, 1st June to 1st July

1999 Paintings by Emma Rose, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham. UK. 8 paintings 60 x 66", 12 June to 24th July, Catalogue, see below

1991 Huddersfield City Art Gallery, UK. 12 paintings and 6 prints, 3rd May to 20th June

1990 Cookridge Street Gallery, Leeds UK. 10 paintings, 4 prints, 9th October to 17th December

Festival Presentations and Screenings

2007 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07. Threshold, Boynton & Rose, 6' 40",Wroclaw, Poland 16 May - 17 June 2007 WRO Art Center,National Museum in Wroclaw,Entropia gallery, Teatr Lalek, Mleczarnia (festival club). http://wrocenter.pl

2007 Videoforms, screenings for remarkable videos. rush, Boynton & Rose, 6' 40", with catalogue, Clermont-Ferrand, France March 13th - 17th www.videoformes.com

2006 4FF - Four Film Festival, Bolzano, Italy, Short Film Experiment, specially selected for an additional exhibition of video intallations from the best experimental films entered for the Opere Nuove category. Centro Culturale Trevi (Centro Trevi www.bolzano.net/trevi.htm) 10th to 18thth November

2006 Korea Experimental Arts Festival, skyWriting: Boynton & Rose, video installation, 13'46" www.kopas2000.co.krhttp://www.kopas2000.co.kr/

the best experimental films of Seoul Net Festival 2005, screened twice in open-air theatre during the festival period 2nd to 6th August

2006 700IS Egilsstaðir, Reindeerland, international experimental video festival, Iceland, www.700.is rush, Cinematic video installation, Boynton & Rose, 6' 40", shortlisted for the Alcoa Prize, 31st - 3rd April

2005 'BASICS', transmediale.05, international media art festival, Berlin. Germany. http://www.transmediale.de/skyWriting: Boynton & Rose, video installation, 13'46" and lecture on the work and its aesthetics. 4th to 8th February.

There were 66 reviews in newspapers, journals, radio, and television programmes (equivalent to the BBC). The exhibition took place in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, The House of World Culture. The jury was international, selection was international. There were more than 900 applications from 51 countries. There were 5 other exhibitors in our category: Extended Landscapes.

2005 The Big Screen. Exhibition of skyWriting: Boynton & Rose, video installation, 13'46", Exchange Square, Manchester, UK. www.bbc.co.uk/ The Bigger Picture is co-ordinated by the Cornerhouse Gallery in association with the BBC and Manchester City Council. 23rd October to 5 November and 5th to 11 May (five screenings daily)

2005 Seoul Net Festival. http://www.senef.net/, Exhibition of skyWriting: Boynton & Rose, video installation, 13'46". Selected from worldwide submission. 54 finalists out of 176 entries, from 27 countries selected 90 films and webworks by artists from 16 countries. 1st May to 30th June

2004 'Du studio à la scène. Présentations des assistants et des compositeurs invités à l'Ircam', Résonances 2004, Ircam, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR. Screening of skyWriting, Boynton & Rose, 13'46", and conference presentation on the work and its aesthetics. Paris, 15th October

2004 Candid Projection Room. Screening of skyWriting Boynton & Rose, 13'46". Candid Arts Trust, London, 23rd November

2004 NWUA conference. Screening of skyWriting Boynton & Rose, 13'46", the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 2nd November

Curatorship

1998 Slow Burn: Meaning and Vision in Contemporary British Abstract Painting. Co-curated with the Director of the Mead Gallery, Sarah Shalgosky. Seven British artists, myself included (with 8 paintings 60 x 66") in total 70 works. Catalogue and symposium, see publications below.

Mead Gallery, Warwick University, 10th November to 12th December

Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, January/February

Leeds Metropolitan Art Gallery, Leeds, March/April

1997 Hot Bed, Contemporary British Printmakers. 10 contemporary British Printmakers, Scott Gallery, 4 prints, 21st April to 1st June

Group Exhibitions

2006 Inspiration to Order exhibition organised in collaboration with colleagues in LICA: Art. Curated by Rebecca Fortnum. Exhibited in the University Art Gallery, California State University, Stanislaus, USA; The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art; The Gallery at Wimbledon School of Art. Exhibition in conjunction with catalogue and symposium -see publications

2006 Beyond the Senses, The Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, London, UK, www.submit2gravity.co.uk rush, cinematic video installation, Boynton & Rose, 6' 40", 16th March - 1st April,

2005 The Society of Scottish Artists. The Scottish National Gallery, Royal Scottish Academy Gallery, Edinburgh, www.s-s-a.org/2005/screen.html Exhibited skyWriting, Boynton & Rose, video installation, 13'46" from open international competition (video only). 22nd January to 17 February

2004 PINK. Exhibition of skyWriting: Boynton & Rose, video installation, 13'46". 7 selected artists. The Gallery, Heriot Watt University, Scottish Borders Campus, Galashiels, 1st to 29th September

2004 Open Exhibition. Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport. 2 prints. December

1997 Pacesetters. Annual Open Exhibition for Painters. Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery. Six artists selected from 150. 8 paintings, oil 72 x 65", 13th September to 25th October

1997 Logos Art Gallery. London. National Art Competition. 1 painting, 1st to 20th December

1996 Exhibition of Monoprints, Jillian George Gallery. London. 6 prints, 7th August to 10 September

1996 Cross Channel Prints, Musee Atelier Adzak. Espace D'Art International Paris. 3 prints. June/July

1996 The Making of Prints, The Elizabethan Exhibition Gallery, Wakefield. 26th October to 15th December

1996 Impressed, Rye Art Gallery, Rye. A Printmakers' Council Exhibition. 3rd June to 24th July

1995 Second International Female Artists' Art Biennial. Stockholm. Sweden. 1 print. 20th December to 27th January

1994 Artists' in Spain, Rye Art Gallery, Rye. Supported by South East Arts. 10th December to 29th January

1994 The Mall Gallery. London. Abstraction; The New Generation. 4 paintings, January/February

1994 Group Exhibition. Durham Museum and Durham Art Gallery. 2 prints. 28th January to 26th February

1994 Artists' Prints and Books, Hereford City Art Gallery and Museums, Hereford. 4 prints. December/January

1994 The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University. 2 prints. 10th May to 2nd June

1993 The Rathause, Dortmund Germany. Sponsored by the Kulturburo Stadt Dortmund, Westfalischer Kunsterbund Dortmund. Fourteen artists altogether from Denmark, Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. 6 prints. Catalogue see below

1993 Pike Gallery, London. 6 paintings. 22nd January to 2nd March

1993 The Mercer Gallery Harrogate. 1 print. 5th December to 23rd January

1992 Scott Gallery. Tradition and the Modern, Lancaster University. 4 paintings. 1st August to 3rd September

1991 Simpson Curtis Painting Prize Exhibition. Leeds Playhouse. 1 painting.

1988 British Print Biennial. Invited to show by selection committee: Cartwright Hall, Bradford. Toured to the following galleries: Peacock Artspace, Aberdeen; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff; Mead Gallery, Warwick; 369 Gallery, Edinburgh; Municipal Gallery, Ipswich; Seldown Gallery, Poole; Barbican Gallery, London. 20 prints

1987 Paton Gallery London. 5 paintings, 4 prints. July

1987 Lloyds Bank Young Printmaker Exhibition, Royal Academy. An exhibition of winners of the Lloyds Bank Printmaking Prize. 1st August to 31st August

1987 Angela Flowers Gallery, London. 1 print. May

1986 Contemporary Prints, Cadogan Gallery, London. 4 prints. October

1986 Nine Artists, Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham. 4 prints. September

1986 Fresh Art, Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London. Selected by Nicholas Treadwell. 2 paintings. November

1986 ILEA Class of 86, Royal Festival Hall, London. Selected by Professor Tim Mara. 4 prints. November

1986 Camden Annual, Camden Arts Centre, London. 1 print. January

1984 Rank Xerox Tradition and Innovation in Printmaking. Royal Festival Hall.

1984 Two Person Show. Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery. 10 paintings, 20 prints

Other Publications/Catalogues

2007 forthcoming: article for Zivot umjetnosti: Croatian magazine for contemporary arts, to be published in December 2007 in English with a Croatian translation. Special Issue on the theme of Regions and Regionalism

2004 BASICS, transmediale.05 international media art festival Berlin. Full colour, pp 72. Written in English and German. Essays outlining the themes of transmediale.05 and outlining the meanings and context of work exhibited.

2005 Catalogue: SSA 2005 full colour, pp. 66. The Royal Scottish National Gallery, Academy Gallery, Edinburgh

2000 'A Sustainable Practice?: Painting, Criticism and Theory' essay by Rose in N. Whiteley (ed.)(1999) De-Traditionalisation and Art: Aesthetic, Authority, Authenticity. Middlesex University Press, 166 pp., ISBN1898253 37 4

1997 Pacesetters Catalogue. Full Colour illustrations. Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery.

1995 Land into Art Exhibition Catalogue written by Rose

1993 'Statement', Catalogue for Grafik im Rathause, Dortmund, Germany. Kultureburo Stadt Dortmund. 1000 words and translation into German by Rose

1992 'Statement', Catalogue for Tradition and the Modern, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster. pp.31-36. 1,500 words ISBN 0 901800 06 6

1991 'Statement'. Catalogue for solo exhibition, Huddersfield City Gallery. 700 words by Rose.

1987 'Statement': 10th British Print Biennial Catalogue. 2000 words by Rose

Selected reviews

Reviews

The solo exhibition of rushat Krizic Roban Gallery, Croatia, was reviewed by Iva Prosoli in Vijenac, the Croatian culture/arts weekly published by Matica Hrvatska, the premier Independent Croatian cultural institution. Vijenac, XV (349/350/351), 19.07.07., str.22

UK Metro Associated newspapers Ltd. review of rush at the Surface Gallery Nottingham

UK Metro Associated newspapers Ltd. review of White-out at MAC Birmingham

Sunday Times, Critics Choice (Marina Vaizey), Time Out (Sarah Kent), The Guardian (Robert Clarke, 3 reviews in total), Arts Review (David Lee), Arts Review (Guy Burn), Three reviews in German newspapers: Ruhr Nachrichte, Dortmunder Rundschau and Waz, number 258, Homes and Gardens Magazine, Yorkshire Post, Artists' And Illustrators, What's On In Birmingham and Coventry, Covenrtry Evening Telegraph, Warwick Boar, Artists' Newsletter, Contemporary Visual Arts, Whats on in Leeds (Merrilly Kerr);

Other citations

2005 Philips have used The Big Screen Exhibition of skyWriting: Boynton & Rose, in their advertising www.business-sites.philips.com/ vidiwall/organisation/article

Publications with extended critical discussion of my work

2006 Inspiration to Order, exhibition catalogue from the exhibition at at California State University Stanislaus, and The Winchester Gallery Southampton University, Wimbledon School of Art Gallery, 2006, pp.1-46, colour illustrations ISBN: 09773967-7-0. Artists Boynton & Rose, Gerry Davies, Rebecca Fortnum, Michael Ginsborg, Beth Harland, Paula Kane, Mary Maclean, Amanda Newall, Vong Phaophanit, Kirk Woolford.

2005 Catalogue: Neil Boynton and Emma Rose, White-out (Lancaster, 2005), pp. 16, 8 colour illustrations. ISBN: 09534477-6-6. A catalogue for the solo exhibitions at mac and AdHoc, with an introduction by Alex Boyd, Exhibitions Manager at mac, and an essay by the artists outlining the research context of the exhibition.

1999 Paintings by Emma Rose, essay by George Szirtes poet and critic for Modern Painters amongst others, catalogue for exhibition at Angel Row Gallery. ISBN 0 905634 37 3, 8 pages, Pyramid press, Nottingham.

1998 Slow Burn: Meaning and Vision in Contemporary British Abstract Painting.

Published alongside the exhibition fully illustrated colour catalogue which provided the critical framework for the reception of the work. Essays were provided by Sacha Craddock, visual arts critic The Times newspaper, Professor Nigel Whiteley, Preface by Rose 500 words. ISBN: 090268339X, pp.48, Pyramid press, Nottingham (1998)

1998 Diane Hill 'The "Real Realm": Value and Values in Recent Feminist Art' in Ian Heywood, Barry Sandywell (eds.), Interpreting Visual Culture: Hermeneutic Explorations of the Visual, Routledge, 1998

Current Teaching

As Deputy Dean and Associate Dean for Postgraduate Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences I currently have no teaching duties.