• Head of School (History of Art)

telephone: 01413303826
email: Nick.Pearce@glasgow.ac.uk

Research Interests

• Photography in China, particularly Western photographers and their work in China from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, but also Chinese photographers and how photography was received in China during this period.
• Collectors and patterns of collecting of Chinese art both in the West and in China, during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. This includes the growth of both private collectors and institutional collecting and the mechanisms that fuelled these activities.
• Historiography of Chinese art studies in the West from the late-19th through to the first-half of the 20th century.

For more information about my career path, please see my Research Story.

Catalogue of the Chinese Collections in the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Worked together with Dr Yupin Chung and staff of the National Museums Liverpool over a 3-year project to create an electronic catalogue of the Collection, made available to the public as a web-based resource in 2009.

Chinese Art Research into Provenance

A Provenance Database for Chinese Works of Art at The Burrell Collection. An AHRC-funded project, 2004.

I welcome applications from PhD students in the areas of photography in China, collectors, collecting and collections of Chinese works of art and the historiography of Chinese art studies in the West.

• Konstanze Knittler, ‘Motivations and Patterns of Collecting: The Collecting of Chinese ceramics in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries in Britain’
• Jason Steuber, ‘The 1935/6 International Exhibition of Chinese Art: Chinese Art Exhibitions and the Roles of Provenance and Politics’. See Gainesville Magazine, Feb/March 2009, 94-6 (Download here: Steuber article)
• Yi Wang, 'The Western Impact on Chinese Ceramics Design during the 17-18th Century'
• Mingyuan Hu, 'From Shanghai to Paris and Back Again: Fou Lei’s Intellectual Development as an Art Critic'
• Michelle Defreese, 'Unidentified Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain in the V&A Collection' (MPhil)

• Historiography and Methodology
• MLitt History of Collecting and Collections

Administration

• Head of the School of Culture and Creative Arts
• Chair, SCCA School Management Group
• College of Arts Management Group
• University Senate
• Christie’s Education Joint Board
• Project Steering Committee: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951

External Responsibilities

• Member of the Academic Board for the Journal: ‘Art Market’ (Yishu shichang), Beijing
• Honorary Curator, The Burrell Collection, Glasgow (1998 -    )