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Alumnae return to graduate at Colchester Campus

Alumnae return to graduate at Colchester Campus

Two Essex graduates are set to return to campus this week, finally celebrating the graduation ceremonies they originally could not attend.

Alumni team

15 July 2024

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Looking/Seeing: On Daniel & Clara, The Watcher and the Bird

Looking/Seeing: On Daniel & Clara, The Watcher and the Bird

Dr Matthew Bowman reflects on artists Daniel & Clara's work, The Watcher and the Bird. Daniel & Clara engage with the various ways in which we have looked at and studied birds through history and the role images play.

Dr Matthew Bowman

05 July 2024

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Who will you meet at the Essex Student Journal Conference?

Who will you meet at the Essex Student Journal Conference?

Find out which authors will be presenting at the Essex Student Journal Conference on Wednesday 1 May. Come along to find out more about the Journal and hear the stories of previous authors and editors.

Thomas O'Toole-Mills, Kimia Aghasoleimani

11 April 2024

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Meet our MA Curating 2024 students

Meet our MA Curating 2024 students

Every year MA Curating students who take the AR953 module work together to present an exhibition in Art Exchange. Meet the class of 2024 and their degree show, Lavender Menace.

Emma Stanley

27 March 2024

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An Introduction to Hetain Patel by Jess Twyman

An Introduction to Hetain Patel by Jess Twyman

Hetain Patel’s work is personal. It’s about him, his family and how he reconciles being Indian in Britain.

Jess Twyman

26 February 2024

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Trinta / Treinta / Thirty Years of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America

Trinta / Treinta / Thirty Years of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America

ESCALA, the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America at the University of Essex, was founded by staff and students in 1993 and inaugurated in December of that year with an exhibition at the University Gallery, now Art Exchange, and this year we celebrate 30 years since that foundation.

Gisselle Giron, Dr Sarah Demelo

22 November 2023

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William Blake: Prophet Against Empire

William Blake: Prophet Against Empire

A visionary artist and poet, William Blake (1757-1827) created some of the most iconic images in British Art. This blog post discusses the recent exhibition in the Albert Sloman Library which focuses on the critical stance he took against the Age of the Enlightenment with its emphasis on science and reason.

Adhithi Ravikumar

11 October 2023

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Dispatches from the Culture War: homosexuality, blasphemy, and obscenity in British media

Dispatches from the Culture War: homosexuality, blasphemy, and obscenity in British media

Tilly Hawkins curates 'Dispatches from the Culture War', examining the NVALA archive of Mary Whitehouse through a queer lens on the Floor 1 landing of the Albert Sloman Library.

Tilly Hawkins

20 June 2023

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Lucid Borders: artistic dialogues around migration and alienation in the MA Curating 2023 exhibition

Lucid Borders: artistic dialogues around migration and alienation in the MA Curating 2023 exhibition

Santiago Valencia Parra, Rabia Perwaiz, Adhithi Ravikumar, Dongxian "Gin" Zhang, Konstantinos Sfikas, Jingyi Chen, Olatoye "Toye" Salawudeen, Cynthia Iruobe

18 April 2023

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Public Destructions: Sam Durant’s Iconoclasm at the University of Essex

Public Destructions: Sam Durant’s Iconoclasm at the University of Essex

Dr Matthew Bowman takes a critical deep dive into Sam Durant's Iconoclasm exhibition at the University of Essex, February to April 2023.

Dr Matthew Bowman

03 March 2023

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