Mary leads on the Exhibition Programme for The Arts Institute. She has been involved in the production and realisation of international contemporary art exhibitions since the 1980s and has worked with institutions such as The Arts Council, Ireland; Air Gallery, London; Spacex and RAMM, Exeter, and since 2014, The Levinsky Gallery. In addition to her curatorial role, she also supports the university's Art History department as Associate Lecturer and facilitates internships for Fine Art and Art History programmes. In both curatorial and teaching roles, Mary is particularly interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches, promoting investigation and dialogue that encourages personal, social, economic and environmental development. When not on campus, you will find her out in Plymouth Sound, rowing with Cattewater Gig Club.
Qualifications
BA (First Class Hons) Art History with Gallery and Museum Studies, University of Plymouth
MRes Art History (Distinction), University of Plymouth
MRes Art History (Distinction), University of Plymouth
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Teaching
Teaching interests
Currently teaching UoP modules 2024/2025:
ARH5003 / ARH6003: Art After 195Art After 1950: Abstract Expressionism to a 'Black Arts Movement’
ARH6001: Dissertation
Past UoP Modules taught:
ARHI113/125: Introduction to Art History
ARHI114: Continuity and Change
ARHI123: Museum Fieldwork (I)
ARHI126/407: Late 19th-Century French Art / Modernity and Modernisms
ANTH406: Humans, Art, Design & Objects
ARHI412: Image of the Artist
ARHI217/512/617: Art and Gender
ARHI230/330: European Art 1750-1800
ARHI232/335/504/611: The Interdisciplinary City
ARHI237/341: Collecting and Exhibiting Cultures in the 19th and 20th Centuries
ARHI306/ARHI608: Dissertation 2
ARHI315/ARHI605: Dissertation 1: Theories and Methods
ARHI510/612: Art After 1950
ARH5004/ARHI623: Decolonizing Modernism: Art 1890-1940
ARHI616 Working with Culture: Professional Development Project
ARHI114: Continuity and Change
ARHI123: Museum Fieldwork (I)
ARHI126/407: Late 19th-Century French Art / Modernity and Modernisms
ANTH406: Humans, Art, Design & Objects
ARHI412: Image of the Artist
ARHI217/512/617: Art and Gender
ARHI230/330: European Art 1750-1800
ARHI232/335/504/611: The Interdisciplinary City
ARHI237/341: Collecting and Exhibiting Cultures in the 19th and 20th Centuries
ARHI306/ARHI608: Dissertation 2
ARHI315/ARHI605: Dissertation 1: Theories and Methods
ARHI510/612: Art After 1950
ARH5004/ARHI623: Decolonizing Modernism: Art 1890-1940
ARHI616 Working with Culture: Professional Development Project
Research
Research interests
Contemporary art and contemporary art curation; Viennese Modernism, the reception and display of non-Western culture in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Museums and Ethnography, Decolonising the Curriculum.
Grants & contracts
AHRC funding postgraduate research: 2008-2009; 2009-2011
Creative practice & artistic projects
As Exhibitions Co-ordinator for The Arts Institute since 2012, I have been involved in the curation and delivery of a number of high-profile national and international exhibitions. View the archive of past exhibitions or view current exhibitions. Recent personal highlights include working on British Art Show 9, and Otherworlds: Marianne Walker and Sang-Mi Rha.
Publications
Chapters
'Artist Biographies' in Blackshaw, G (ed.), Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900, London: National Gallery Company in association with Yale University Press, 2013
'Adolf Loos’s Kärntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction', in Ashby, C., T. Gronberg and S. Shaw-Miller (eds), The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture, London: Berghahn Books, 2013, pp.138-157
'Adolf Loos’s Kärntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction', in Ashby, C., T. Gronberg and S. Shaw-Miller (eds), The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture, London: Berghahn Books, 2013, pp.138-157
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
Conference Paper:
'An alternative to the café: the Loos Bar (1908) and its reproduction in Trinity College, Dublin (1986)', at The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange, V&A and RCA, 17-18 October 2008
Invited Lectures:
'Re-imagining the American Bar', RIBA, 29 March 2011
'The Arts Institute and its role in the cultural life of University of Plymouth and beyond', PATIO of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland, 10 January 2024
Other academic activities
Exhibitions Programme Curator, The Levinsky Gallery (full time) and Associate Lecturer (Art History ) part time
Links
THE VIENNESE CAFÉ AND FIN-DE-SIÈCLE CULTURE, Berghahn Books