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Stockwell, Susan

Contact details

Position: Senior Lecturer

Location: G49, Docklands

Telephone: 0208 223 3439

Email: s.stockwell@uel.ac.uk

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School of Arts and Digital Industries

University of East London

Docklands Campus

University Way

London E16 2RD

Brief biography

Susan  teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in all areas of fine art practice. Her training and  specialist knowledge is in sculpture and installation but she also works in drawing, collage and has made films. She works primarily with everyday dicarded materials and her practice is concerned with geo-politics, mapping, ecology, trade and global commerce. Her teaching experience is extensive and she has taught at all levels in institutions in Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia, including The Royal College of Art, Taipei National University and Ohio State University.

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Activities and responsibilities

Susan Stockwell is and artist and academic. She teaches BA and postgraduate students in all areas of fine art practice. Her training and  specialist knowledge is in sculpture and installation but she also works in drawing, collage and has made films.

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Areas of Interest/Summary of Expertise

Susan teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in all areas of fine art practice. Her training and  specialist knowledge is in sculpture and installation but she also works in drawing, collage and has made films. She works primarily with everyday dicarded materials and her practice is concerned with geo-politics, mapping, ecology, trade and global commerce. Her teaching experience is extensive and she has taught at all levels in institutions in Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia, including The Royal College of Art, Taipei National University and Ohio State University.

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Teaching: Programmes

Fine Art BA, MA, Doctorate by Practice

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Teaching: Modules

Teach on all fine art studio and workshop based modules and run the Bronze Casting Elective.

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Current research and publications

One Person Exhibitions:

2010          Flood Site-specific Installation. York St Mary's. York, UK.

2009          Vulnerable Ecologies Art league, Houston, Texas USA.

                  Mapping the Body The Florence Nightingale Museum.

                  St Thomas’s Hospital.  London. UK. 

2011          Mappamundi The Berardo Museum Foundation, Lisbon,

                  All Stitched-Up The Florence Nightingale Museum. London UK.

                  A-to-Z The University of East London AVA Gallery. London UK.

                  Sofia Biennale National Art Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria.

                  Heartlands Great Brampton House. Hay-On-Wye. UK.

                  Bulgaria in Our Time Bulgarian Embassy, London. UK.

                  The Art of Mapping TAG Fine Arts. The Air Gallery. London.

                  Interventions in the collection. York City Art Gallery. York. UK

2010          Quilts 1700-2010: V&A Museum. London. UK.

                  Creative Compass Royal Geographic Society. London.

                  Who’s Map is it? new mapping by artists. (INIVA) London. UK.

                  Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art

                  The Katonah Museum of Art. New York. USA.

                  Here and Again Patrick Heide Contemporary Art. London. UK.

                  Miami Pulse Art Fair. Patrick Heide Contemporary Art. USA.

                  The Big Deal. London.

Commissions:

 2011         World Bedfordshire University, Luton. Public Commission

                  Journeys. London Transport Museum. Olympics Commission

                  Jerusalem screen print. The Map as Art. TAG Fine Art. Commission

 

Working for many projects, exhibitions, commissions, art fairs, etc.

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Other scholarly activities

  • Fellow- Royal geographic Society
  • Fellow Royal Society of British Sculptors
  • Teaching / talks at the V&A, Tate Britain, RGS, Iniva, 
  • Australia National University. Canberra, Australia.
  • Canberra Institute of Technology. Canberra, Australia.
  • National Art School, Sydney, Australia.
  • The Art League of New York, Essex Street Market, New York City. USA.

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Abstracts

The Yorkshire Post 

'Susan Stockwell York', 19 June 2010, by Robert Clark

Publisher: The Guardian, © The Guardian / Robert Clark 2010 -

'Susan Stockwell misuses everyday objects and domestic materials to enchanting effect. Past installations have included a map of the world painted with tea on teabag paper and a quilt woven from Chinese banknotes. Here she floods the nave of the church-cum-arts-centre with an intricate sculpture mass-constructed from four tonnes of computer components. Stockwell, while playing with themes of consumer waste, refers to the "toxic exquisiteness" of her hi-tech raw materials, hinting at the double-edged fascination her best work generates. There's an aspect here of simply putting contrasting elements together to see what aesthetic and metaphorical charms might arise'

The Guide Exhibitions  -

see website- www.susanstockwell.co.uk 'Articles Section' for many more articles and publications.

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