12/19/2023 0 Comments David simon art k. williams![]() ![]() ![]() Interdisciplinary and collaborative art practice.Īlchemy, archaeology, folklore, speculative fiction & popular culture. Member of the Steering Group for the National Association of Fine Art Educators (NAFAE)įellow of the Higher Education Academy Academic and research interests Their recent work, Systema Naturae (2012-2014), is a collection of quotidian objects referencing representations of flora and fauna and was shown in the UK in 2015 and which will travel to Denmark in the near future. Robert and Jack have also worked on projects about The Underworld, Arca Tartareum (2007-08), Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne ( Historico-naturalis et Archaeologica ex Dale Street 2007-09), and a project investigating glass shards from around the world in Disjecta Fragmen Communitis (2011) shown at a museum of glass manufacture from the Industrial Revolution. Interdisciplinary collaborations with my son Jack include explorations of ideas drawn from subjects as diverse as natural history, archaeology, anthropology, myth and legend.Their collaborations include Thesaurus Scienta Lancastriae (2004-2005) and Virga et Lapilla (2006),which explores archaeological inexactitude in the exhibition Stones, Circles, Landscape & Art curated by archaeologist Aaron Watson. Cumbrian Alchemy (2014) was shown in the UK and France, and travelled to Umeå, and Malmö in Sweden, and Hasselt in Belgium as part of The Arts Catalyst Nuclear Cultures project, led by Dr. A recent major Arts Council England funded project with American artist Bryan McGovern Wilson explores the confluence of nuclear energy, mineral extraction industries, archaeology and folklore in the North-west of England. I also collaborate closely with internationally respected artists such as the art publishers Information As Material ( The Perverse Library (2010), I, Sparkie (2013) and The Nabakov Paper (2013) curated by Kate Briggs & Lucrezia Russo). Schäfer and Williams published a new book in 2017, Calvariae Disjecta: The many hauntings of Burton Agnes Hall, which investigates the dissemination of a regional ghost-story across popular cultural forms. Hilmar Schäfer and fellows from the 2012 session produced Dis Manibus: A taxonomy of ghosts from popular forms (2013) which featured tin-type spirit photographs by Corey Riddell and publication design by Natalie Wilkin. Other works together include, An Ordinall of Alchimy (2010), commissioned by Cabinet Magazine, a collaboration with fellows from the Mildred’s Lane Project in Pennsylvania for Williams’ project Opus Magnum: Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1998-present), and contributions to the exhibition Mark Dion: The Academy of Things at HfBK Dresden in 2015, and Extra Natural at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris in 2016. A series of prints made with Dion at Cumbria Institute of the Arts formed part of the London Underground Art Project and were later included in Kunst und Alchemie: Das Geheimnis der Verwandlung at the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf in 2014. Notable projects with Dion include The Tasting Garden at Lancaster (1998), The Tate Thames Dig (1999), Theatrum Mundi: Armarium at Jesus College, Cambridge (2001) and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2011). Hilmar Schäfer, and with my son, Jack Aylward-Williams. David Barrowclough German cultural sociologist Dr. Simon Morris and Nick Thurston archaeologists Dr. My practice includes a number of projects in the UK and USA with close collaborators such as artists Mark Dion and Bryan McGovern Wilson conceptual writers Dr. I currently lead practice-led arts research initiatives for the Institute of the Arts as part of the Arts Research Initiative (ARI). I was the Leader of the Fine Art Programmes at Cumbria Institute of the Arts/University of Cumbria between 1998-2013. I trained at Lancaster University (BA 1983/PhD 2013) and at Leeds University (1990/1) where I was a Henry Moore Scholar in Sculpture Studies. Start Your Story as a Secondary Teacher.Start Your Story in Science & Conservation.Start Your Story in Criminology & Policing.Create Your Story as a Graphic Designer.Create Your Story in the Gaming Industry.Start Your Social Work, Health & Wellbeing Story. ![]() Back to top menu layer Business and employers ![]()
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