DrHoward Read
Senior Lecturer in Illustration
Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
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- Senior Lecturer in IllustrationFaculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences
- 01902 2796 (Work)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
As an artist and illustrator my research engages with drawing as an expanded practice and I am currently investigating the role of illustration in urban history and spacial theory. My primary drawing methodology is location based fieldwork, focusing on contested urban city spaces. Documenting through drawing allows me to integrate personal history, memory and aspects of change. Thus informing a subjective phenomenological approach to exploring the city imaginary.
My current research practice and theoretical reading is focused on the role of the sketchbook in creative artistic activity. I’m interested in the inherent qualities and theory of recording and writing in sketchbooks, notebooks and journals as a way of gaining knowledge and the intuitive process of critical understanding. What the anthropologist Michael Taussig has called ‘a type of modernist literature that crosses over into the science of social investigation’ and allows for ‘the imaginative logic of discovery’ (Taussig 2011).
My current research practice and theoretical reading is focused on the role of the sketchbook in creative artistic activity. I’m interested in the inherent qualities and theory of recording and writing in sketchbooks, notebooks and journals as a way of gaining knowledge and the intuitive process of critical understanding. What the anthropologist Michael Taussig has called ‘a type of modernist literature that crosses over into the science of social investigation’ and allows for ‘the imaginative logic of discovery’ (Taussig 2011).