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Staff profile / Jonathan Clarkson

Subject Leader Art History & Theory
Room 4.06
Cardiff School of Art and Design
University of Wales Institute Cardiff
Howard Gardens
Cardiff CF24 0SP
Tel. 029 2041 6664

Email: jclarkson@uwic.ac.uk

Jonathan Clarkson is an art historian. He studied at the University of Kent and the University of Essex where he wrote his PhD on the relation between fantasy and the visual imagination in the English School of psychoanalysis. Before coming to Cardiff he taught at Chelsea School of Art, the University of Essex and Colchester Institute. He has a special interest in contemporary art practice and has published essays on contemporary painting, sculpture and photography.

In 2000 he was involved in curating an exhibition around Constable’s painting of Wivenhoe Park, and was co-editor, with Neil Cox, of the book Constable and Wivenhoe Park: Reality and Vision which accompanied the exhibition. The book includes an essay by him looking at Constable’s strategy in balancing the rival claims of place and painting. More recently, he has completed a major book on the painter due to be published by Phaidon.

His research interests centre on the question of the relationship between artwork and viewer, and include: psychoanalysis, contemporary art, theories of representation and the history and practice of landscape art.

Dr Jonathan Clarkson is a member of the Centre for Fine Art Research (http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/centre-for-fine-art/), part of the Fine art & Ceramics theme within WIRAD.

Research Awards:

2006 Site-ations International 2005-6, Sense in Place, funded by European Union, Culture 2000

Book Chapters/Essays :

(2006 ), ‘Paul Beauchamp, Timescapes’, in Adams, Hugh (ed.), Re:Imaging Wales, ISBN 1-85411-406-9 (Book Chapter)
(2006), ‘The Life of a Nail’ in Visarjan, Resurgence, Rust Cube Centre, New Delhi (exhibition catalogue)
(2006), ‘This City’ in Philip Nicol, Paintings. Cardiff: UWIC Press. ISBN: 1-902724-17-8 (exhibition catalogue)
(2005), ‘False Work’, in Falsework, Cardiff: UWIC Press. ISBN: 1-902724-95-X (exhibition catalogue.)
(2005), ‘Timescapes’, in Timescapes, Cardiff (exhibition catalogue)

Journal Articles

(2006), ‘Mind the Gap’, in Planet 179, ISSN-0048-4288
(2005), ‘Artificial Paradise’, in Planet, 171, ISBN: 00484288.
(2005), ‘Taking the Measure of Things’ in Planet, 170. ISBN: 00484288.

Supervision

Psychoanalysis (esp. British School)
Constable
History of landscape painting
Contemporary approaches to land and landscape
Theories of representation

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.