Practice PhD toolkit

Figures & data

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Projects	Practice
Now, next What are you doing now?	Over time (past, present & future) What is it that you do?
Event	Process (unfolding); pursuit
‘Text’ (e.g. artwork, garment)	Context & Text (a ‘texture’ of texts/artworks)
Artwork, event, artefact, design	Body of work

Figure 1. Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Reticulárea, 1969. Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas. Variable dimensions. Photo: Paolo Gasparini © Fundación Gego.

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Journal of Visual Art Practice Practice Research – Catalogue of Articles (in chronological order)

‘A Terminal Degree: fine art and the PhD’ – Sally J. Morgan 2001 (Vol.1, No.1, pp.6–15)

‘Concrete abstractions – a Della Volpean perspective on studio practice as research’  – Kenneth G. Hay, 2002 (Vol.2, No. 1–2, pp.64–77)

‘The enactment of thinking: the creative practice Ph.D.’ – Katy Macleod and Lin Holdridge, 2005 (Vol. 4, No. 2–3, pp.197–207)

‘New knowledge in the creative disciplines – proceedings of the first Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007’ – Kristina Niedderer and Linden Reilly, 2007 (Vol.6, No.2, pp.81–87) NB. This is the introduction to a special issue. The papers included in this issue, Vol.6, No.2, are also worth consulting.

‘Inherently interdisciplinary: four perspectives on practice-based research’ – Clive Cazeaux, 2008 (Vol.7, No.2, pp.107–132)

‘Research into, by and for design’ – Ken Friedman, 2008 (Vol.7, No.2, pp.153–160)

‘What’s wrong with the primacy of theory?’ – Nick Haeffner, 2008 (Vol.7, No.2, pp.173–189)

‘Creative writing: words as practice-led research’ – Graeme Harper, 2008 (Vol.7, No.2, pp.161–171)

‘The pedestal and the pendulum: fine art practice, research and doctorates’ – Judith Mottram and Chris Rust, 2008 (Vol.7, No.2, pp.133–151)

‘Towards a Criticality in the Now’ – Ignaz Cassar, 2009 (Vol.8, No.3, pp.229–240)

‘Editorial Writing on Practice’ – Mick Finch and Chris Smith, 2009 (Vol. 8, No.1–2, pp.3–5) NB. This is the introduction to a special issue. The papers included in this issue, Vol.8, No.1–2, are also worth consulting.

‘The practice-led Fine Art Ph.D. – at the frontier of what there is – an outlook on what might be’ – Frank Millward, 2013 (Vol.12, No.2, pp.121–133)

‘The absenting subject: research notes on PhDs in Fine Art’ – Katy Macleod and Neil Chapman, 2014 (Vol.13, No.2, pp.138–149)

‘Future resource: Ph.D. student collaboration’ – Marsha Bradfield and Katrine Hjelde, 2016 (Vol.15, No.1, pp.10–29)

‘Interweaving in hybrid methodologies’ – Deborah Harty and Phil Sawdon, 2016 (Vol.15, No.1, pp.30–40)

‘Correlating theory and practice in fine art research: understanding practice as research; seminars for first year PhD students’ – Mo Throp, 2016 (Vol.15, No. 1, pp.4–9)

‘Ordinary extraordinary: the para/ pata:institutionalism of Critical Practice’ – Marsha Bradfield, 2020 (Vol.19, No.1, pp.38–52)

Documenting Practice Research

‘Spatial ontology and digital print’ – Naren Barfield, 2002 (Vol.2, No.1–2, pp.26–35)

‘The Problem of Documenting Fine Art Practices and Processes’ – Rebecca Fortnum and Chris Smith, 2007 (Vol.6, No.3, pp.167–174) NB. This is the introduction to a special issue. The papers included in this issue, Vol.6, No.3, are also worth consulting.

‘Articulating the tacit dimension in artmaking’ – Michael Jarvis, 2007 (Vol.6, No.3, pp.201–213)

‘A Fragment of Time in the Pure State; Painting in Search of Haptic Time’ – Beth Harland, 2009 (Vol.8, No.1–2, pp.37–58)

‘Cooking up a Storm? “Post-production” as Interpretation’ – Ruth Pelzer-Montada, 2009 (Vol.8, No.1–2, pp.7–36)

‘Underwriting: an experiment in charting studio practice’ – Anne Robinson, 2009 (Vol.8, No. 1–2, pp.59–74)

‘Fleeting occupations: the “studio” as an extension of psychological inhabitation’ – Andrea Hannon, 2014 (Vol.13, No.1, pp.50–60)

‘“Painting” as emergent knowledge: a practice-led case study of contemporary artistic labour’ – Carole Kirk, 2014 (Vol.13, No.2, pp.114–129)

‘Mirror, mirror: towards “something like” a value system for art research by way of critique and dialogic art’ – Marsha Bradfield, 2016 (Vol.15, No.1, pp.63–79)

‘Theory and practice between art and pedagogy in the art School’ – Katrine Hjelde, 2016 (Vol.15, No.1, pp.41–49)

Visual Essays

‘In the Study of the Letters in Red … ’ – Sunil Manghani and Rodrigo Velasco, 2005 (Vol.4, No.1, pp.19–27)

‘Considering If … Then … Else … ’ – Mary Maclean, 2007 (Vol.6, No.3, pp.257–267)

‘Notes on Display, and a Work by Alejandra Riera’ – Roger M. Buergel, 2010 (Vol.9, No.2, pp.103–122)

‘On the Beach at Bornholm’ – Judith Tucker, 2010 (Vol.9, No.3, pp.267–272)

‘Dirty Museum’ – Craig Richardson, 2017 (Vol.16, No.2, pp.131–138)

‘An ecoaesthetic of vegetal surfaces: on Seed, Image, Ground as soft montage’ – Jussi Parikka and Abelardo Gil-Fournier, 2021 (Vol.20, No.1–2, pp.16–30)