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MA Curating students, Jou-Han Chen (Sophie) and Hiromi Horiuchi, interned at Art Exchange throughout the summer of 2024. Invigilating the summer show, Brutal but Beautiful, led them to develop fascinating insights into the university’s brutalist architecture.

Hiromi Horiuchi, Jou-Han Chen

16 September 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MA Curating student Pauline Tristani explores the fallen statues of Lenin that litter the Ukrainian countryside.

Pauline Tristani

19 May 2022

Dr Matt Lodder believes it makes sense to think about the human body, and particularly the modified human body, as an art object in the world. In this blog he explains why.

Dr Matt Lodder

28 January 2022

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Art history, Art history

Discovering Brutalism at Art Exchange

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

Who will you meet at the Essex Student Journal Conference?

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

William Blake: Prophet Against Empire

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

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

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

What ‘Leninfall’ tells us about Ukraine

Body Modification as Artistic Practice