  Contact DetailsSchool of Art |
Moira VincentelliLecturer in Art History and Curator of CeramicsA central core of my research has been the development of the Ceramic Collection and Archive at Aberystwyth. The university has one of the major collections of studio ceramics in Britain and this is backed by the archive which includes both paper documents and tape and video recordings. We are currently developing a multimedia database around the collection. For further information see the Ceramic Collection and Archive web page. I organise the lecture programme for the International Potters Festival, a bienniel event held at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.I regularly present papers at academic conferences (in 1998 at the Association of Art Historians and Keele Ceramics Summer School) and have published widely on ceramics and textiles with articles and reviews for publications including Ceramic Review, Crafts, The Journal of Design History, and Quilters Review and many exhibition catalogue essays. Following my interest in gender studies I have just completed a book for Manchester University Press Women and Ceramics — Gendered Vessels. Another book is in preparation on traditonal women’s ceramics which will consider the way that women across the world have continued to maintain distinct traditions usually based on handbuilding and open firing.  Moira Vincentelli, Cover of Women and Ceramics – Gendered Vessels, Manchester University Press, 2000 TeachingI am interested in the interdisciplinary aspects of art history and in recent years increasingly direct my teaching towards gender issues, non-western art and traditions and their interface with contemporary culture, and material culture in particular ceramics. I have served as an external examiner in art history and contextual studies in ceramics and textiles in a number of different universities and colleges, currently at Bath Spa University and the University of Glamorgan and, after 1999, at the University of Staffordshire and the University of the West of England.Public ServiceI serve on a number of public bodies, currently:• Council member Arts Council Wales (from 1994) • Chair of the Access Committee of the Arts Council of Wales (from 1998) • Chair of the Craft Board of Arts Council Wales (from 1994–1998) • Council member Crafts Council (from 1993). mov@aber.ac.uk Ceramic Archive |
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