PhD Students
The Centre provides specialist supervision for a cluster of research students. Professor Avis Newman coordinates weekly PhD seminars in the project space at WCA , which has resulted in the development of a strong PhD community. Over the past year, two distinct areas within research culture have emerged: Drawing in Relation to Semiotics; Drawing and Memory and Diaspora. As a site that is part studio, part exhibition space, the CFD Project Space aims to encourage a discourse and exchange between postgraduate students, fine art researchers and artists from both within the University and beyond. From time to time PhD student will lead projects, a recent example is The Drawing Field , a series of master classes coordinated by PhD student Maryclare Foa, aimed specifically at the postgraduate and research student community which interrogates a diverse range of individuals approaches to drawing .
The following PhD students are currently attached to The Centre of Drawing:
* Osman Ahmed: Documenting the Kurdish holocaust (1988) through Drawing
* Dino Alfier : Simone Weil and the notion of ‘Attention’ through Drawing
* Carolyn Flood: Contemporary Drawing as an Element of Installation Practice
* Paul Ryan: Peirce’s Semeiotic and the implications for aesthetics in the Visual Arts. An Extemporary Case Study: the Sketchbook and its Position in the Hierarchies of Making, Collecting and Exhibiting
* Angela Roger: Drawing a Conversation: a practice-led investigation
* Angela Brew : Perception to depiction in the drawing of faces. Do artists, looking at faces with intent to draw, have a special way of looking?
* Maryclare Foa : Pleinair Performance Drawing: An inquiry into Performance Drawing made in response to the outside environment
* Simon Grennan: Feeling in the drawing world: what is the nature of the relationship between communicated emotion and characters’ gestures in comic books drawn in English since 1990?
* Anna Vickers: Revealing and concealing in post 1970’s painting
*Angela Hodgson-Teall: Drawing towards the infectious nature of empathy
