Ms Shirley MacWilliam
Associate Lecturer in Fine Art: Lens-Based Practice
Background
Shirley MacWilliam is an artist and writer. In 1992 she was Cheltenham Sculpture Fellow and in 1993 was awarded the Momart Fellowship, Tate Gallery Liverpool. She has been commissioned by Surrey County Arts; Visual Art Projects, Glasgow; Harris Museum and Art Gallery; BAA Art Programme (Heathrow) and Public Art Development Trust; Space Explorations, London; and Living Art Projects, Dublin. Her writing and research has been supported by An Chomhairle Ealaion (The Arts Council of Ireland) and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and is published in a number of magazines, journals, catalogues and books. She has been a contributing editor for CIRCA Art Magazine since 1999.
Education
She was awarded a first-class honours BA in Fine Art by Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1989 and studied for two years 1989-91 at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art).
Research Fields
Her practice, research and writing are concerned with: the performance-paper; technological and temporary public art; the use of sound and the critical analysis of sound in art practice and culture; interdisciplinarity.
Main Publications / Other Public Output
- DVD and chapter/catalogue publication
- 'Voice, Vista and Vapours' (essay and DVD documentary interview) in Mariele Neudecker: Moving Image, Music and Text, In Profile (dvd series), Bristol: Picture This. 2006. pp 1-6. (ISBN 0 953987272)
- 'Cloud Formation: Sound and its Audience in works by Andrew Stones' in Outside Inside Andrew Stones, London: Film and Video Umbrella. 2004. pp 84-93. (ISBN 1-904270-09-3)
- Public art project
- 'View Point' (invited commissioned public art project) Garden Journeys, Polesden Lacey, Surrey, 2006 (Project included art work, writers collaboration, postcard and public reading event. One of 10 major commissions by Surrey County Arts. View Point was exhibited for 6 weeks in Polesden Lacey; and permanently sited subsequently in Mole Valley, Surrey.)
Links
- Academic Enterprise Returns Form
- App lication for Funding Support for Research
- Application for Funding Support for Research - Teaching Relief
- Internal Research Funding Report Form
- Form for Return to University Publication Database
- Form for Returning non-text based Publications
- Peer Esteem Form; 2001 to date
- Personal Research Plan 2006/2007
- Research Institute Membership Criteria for 2006/2007