Dr Jennifer Powell

PhD, M.Phil., B.A. (University of Birmingham)

Research Assistant - Central England and London
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951

History of Art Department
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
UK

Tel. +44 (0)141 330 6341
Fax. +44 (0)141 330 3513
Email j.powell@vam.ac.uk

Research

PhD thesis title: Constructing National Identities through Exhibition Practices in Post-War London. Anglo-French Exchanges and Contemporary Sculpture on Display c. 1945-1966.

Research interests include:

  • International exchanges between sculptors working in the post-war period, particularly in France and Britain.
  • The facilitation of exchanges through government funded initiatives and institutions, private and commercial galleries, and the London art market.
  • The construction of national identities through exhibition practices after 1945.
  • The work of the French sculptor Germaine Richier (1904-1959), and the relationship between visual art and French Existential philosophy.
  • The development of sculptural education in the Midlands between c. 1851 and 1951.  

Teaching

University of Birmingham (2004 – 2007): modules include Contemporary Visual Arts and Postcolonialism, Michelangelo, Critical Approaches to Art History and Object and Medium.
University of Warwick (2007): Portraiture.

Publications

J. Powell, ‘Some Refugee Artists and their Works’, in J. Powell and J. Vinzent, Art and Migration. Art works by Refugee Artists from Nazi Germany in Britain, 11 – 15 July, 2005, pp. 64-96.

Re-published in Visual Journeys: Art in Exile in Britain, second edition, George Bell Institute, University of Chichester, 2008, pp.  68-101.   

In preparation for submission:
‘The Anglo French Art Centre (1946-1951); an unfamiliar site for Anglo-French exchanges in post-war London’.  

‘International sculptural exchanges through the London Art Market: London’s Hanover Gallery (1948-1971)’.

Conferences

16 Feb 2009
‘Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951: Mapping Relationships’, Presented at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

30 Oct 2006
‘Unfamiliar Sites for Anglo-French Exchange in Post-War London: The Anglo French Art Centre and the Institute of Contemporary Arts’. Presented at Dialogues – Britain in Conversation with Post-War Europe, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

22 Sept 2006
‘A Battleground for the Construction of Post-War Identities. Anglo-French and Anglo-American open-air sculpture exhibitions in London’. Presented at Belonging and Otherness, interdisplinary conference, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon.

5 April 2006
‘Constructing National Identities through Exhibition Practices: Anglo-French Sculpture in the Open-Air in Post-War London’. Session title: ‘History of Art beyond its National Boundaries’, at Art and Art History: Contents. Discontents. Malcontents, Association of Art Historians Conference, Leeds.

Conferences organised:
29 Oct 2005: New Voices, University of Nottingham. 
1 June 2007: Surface Effects: The Making and Representation of Sculpture. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

Curatorial

Forthcoming: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, November 2010 – April 2011, Gilbert Bayes Gallery of Sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Exhibition assistant.

Art and Migration. Art works by Refugee Artists from Nazi Germany in Britain, The University of Birmingham, 11 – 15 July 2005. Curator and organiser.

Education, marketing, sales and curatorial work at various galleries in Birmingham including the RBSA Gallery, IKON Gallery, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Awards

Oct 2006 - research fellowship to use resources at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
AHRC funding for MPhil and PhD research and additional awards for research periods in Paris.