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Prof Anne Douglas Biographical Statement Anne Douglas studied anthropology at the University of Durham (1968-71) and sculpture at Camberwell School of Art, London (1973-6). She was awarded the Rome Scholarship in Sculpture (1976-8) and Artist in Residence, British School at Rome (1984). After extensive experience of professional practice and teaching, she completed one of the first practice based doctoral research projects, Sunderland University. Her thesis ‘Sculpture as Improvisation’ (1992) is an articulation of the creative process as a form of improvisation explored in relation to her own production of sculpture. The context for the research was the emergent opportunity for artists to work in the public sphere within processes of post industrial, urban regeneration. After a sustained period of post doctoral research development at Gray’s School of Art, Anne initiated the On the Edge research project investigating the value of the visual arts in remote rural areas (www.ontheedgeresearch.org) funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council research grant. This research also involved the cultural policy researcher, François Matarasso. On the Edge has further evolved through two new programmes: the Artist as Leader, AHRC funded 2006-8 and Working in Public: Art, Practice and Policy, funded by the Scottish Arts Council with the artist Suzanne Lacy. Anne gained a professorial title in 2007. My artistic practice has undergone a transition from ‘maker of objects’, artistic practice as an individually authored activity, to ‘maker of enabling conditions’ through the development of focused art projects/art discourse from a research base. Formal research offers an important framework for sharing explicit, radical questions on the value of art with different individuals from the arts as well as other disciplines and sectors of society. I am particularly interested in developing critical approaches to art that draw a creative relationship between the artist, specific place and culture, where that culture is experiencing radical social and economic change.My RAE research outputs contribute to the Art and the Public Sphere thematic. // Back to Staff Profiles |
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