The VCRG hosted the 5th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium online on Friday 25th March 2022. Students across a range of UWE Art & Design programmes presented research papers on their final year Visual Culture projects. The work reflects some of the most pressing current issues for those interested in visuality and cultural critique. There was also some presentations from staff, bringing student and staff work into dialogue . Papers were organised into the following panels:
Morning Panel:
‘Selfhood, Identities and Screen-based media’
Afternoon Panel:
‘Space, Time, Participation’
Huge congratulations to the students who presented and many thanks to all who contributed to a day of fascinating discussion.
Visual Culture Research Group (VCRG) Presentation:
Panel 1: ‘Selfhood, Identities and Screen-based Media’:
Elena Hartley
Drawing and Print
Middle Age Penance to ‘Melodramatic Money Shots’: Confessional Discourse in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Laura Tanner
Fashion Textiles
lauratan241@gmail.com
Lockdown clothing: the Instagram pandemic? How attitudes towards clothing and loungewear during the Covid-19 pandemic can affect mental health
Chloe Henderson
Art and Writing
OnlyFans: A company built on exploiting vulnerable women that has reinforced the negative and subordinate view of women
Dr. Clare Johnson
Delivering and Researching the Arts for Wellbeing (DRAW)
Laura Fairfax
Art and Writing
Searching for legitimacy and pleasure in female sexuality: How is female adolescence presented on screen?
Velvet Butler Carroll
Fine Art
velvetbutler@outlook.com
Drag: a reaffirmation of binary codes or a political tool for queering the gaze? An analysis of Drag Kings and mainstream media representation
Panel discussion and q & a
Sarah Bodman, Angie Butler: Centre for Print Research presentations
Sarah Bodman – Artists’ Books Research at UWE Bristol/CFPR
Angie Butler – These Books of Handwork and Hybridity
Panel 2: ‘Space, Time, Participation’:
Alec Neil
Fine Art
Fractured Temporalities Reclaiming Physical Time
Simon Morrissey
Document and Location Research Group presentation
Charlotte Knaggs
Drawing and Print
The value of contemporary art: cultural capital, the gallery space, and millionaires
Lauren Graham
Fine Art
Queerness in Nature – An exploration of queerness and the natural world in relation to contemporary art, sexuality, conservation, and popular culture
Panel discussion and Q & A