Name

Brian Fay

Title of research project / research interests

States of Transience in Drawing Practices and the Conservation of Museum Artworks

Affiliation(s)

Phd Candidate, Northumbria Univesity, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Supervisor(s)

Sian Bowen, Reader in Fine Art, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University

Chris Dorsett, Reader in Art School Practices, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University

Estimated date of completion

January 2014

Previous education and/or work experience

Brian Fay is an artist and Lecturer in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Solo exhibitions include Broken Images or When Does Posterity Begin? RHA Ashford Gallery, (2011), the 3 part Some Time Now series, The Lab, Mermaid Arts Centre and Solstice Arts Centre (2007) and Web, Butler Gallery (2005).

Group shows include Into Irish Drawing (2010), Limerick, Holland, Paris and Millennium Arts Centre, Other Mens Flowers, The Hugh Lane, (C)Artography: Mapmaking as Artform, The Crawford, (2007) and The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery (2006).

Recent talks and Symposiums include; When is an Artwork? Bergson’s Progress and the Art Object for The Perception of Change : Space, time and Mobility after Henri Bergson, School of Geography and Environment, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK, Drawing: Starting Point or Finishing Line? Seminar, Limerick City Gallery, Ireland, Site-specific: Between archaeologists and artists, World Archaeological Conference, University College Dublin Keynote Talk at the Drawing Research Network Conference, Loughborough University, Re-Tracing – the use of others work, University of Ulster at Belfast, ELIA Research Conference, Berlin. DrawingLab and its role in Research at DIT, joint paper given with Dr Siun Hanrahan and Drawing Perspectives, Irish Museum of Modern Art, joint presentaton with Dr Siun Hanrahan.

His work is held in the National Contemporary Drawing Collection, Crawford Art Gallery and Office of Public Works.

Abstract

Through research and practice this PhD thesis will pose the question What can a close analysis of Conservation methods, treatments and theories with its temporal implications contribute to drawing research and practices that primarily employ the use of pre-existing artwork?

This research project will aim to shed light on the relationship between two parallel practices, Conservation and Drawing. By closely observing, evaluating and assimilating aspects of both activities, their theory and techniques, this study will seek to provide a framework for identification of related issues and concerns to both disciplines.

Through this analysis it is hoped that the research will act as a new site of shared interest to both practices to a cross over area this is arguably currently under studied and developed.

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