Spectral Shores: vanishing places and haunted spaces. Coastal Erosion and its effect on perceptions of time and the cultural construction of coastal landscapes
Spectral Shores is a practice-led research project that investigates visual representations of coastal erosion on the North Norfolk coast, the concerns presented by climate change for this process, and how people navigate and occupy these fluctuating spaces. These representations and meanings are addressed using a range of critical perspectives, including those relating to horror and science fiction.
The project uses still and moving image, as well as writing, alongside AR or games design engines to create a fragmented narrative of this fluctuating space in order to evoke an idea of cosmic horror that may be sensed but not easily described in these coastal spaces.
This PhD is a combined practice and theoretical exploration that aims to identify and document photographically the nature and consequences of this economic decline in the form of a visual narrative that will raise awareness of these problems and the potential for regeneration.
This research project seeks to interrogate and reframe the thinking of horror through a rigorous engagement with its formal limits.
Jonathan P. Watts (he/him) is a fully-funded PhD candidate at Norwich University of the Arts supervised by Professor Simon Willmoth and Professor Jo Melvin at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
A love of secondhand clothing lies at the core of this research project.
This PhD by curatorial practice focuses on a group of embroidered textile testimonies made at the turn of the twentieth century by an inmate of the Female Lunatic Ward of Great Yarmouth Workhouse.
Roger Ackling – Work and Teaching 1969 to 2014 This PhD by curatorial practice focuses on the work of British artist Roger Ackling (1947 – 2014). Ackling’s career is notable for his artistic practice and his long and influential teaching career. The research aims to understand his work in relation to Land Art, Minimalist and Conceptual Art movements and the impact of his practice on artists he worked with and taught.
New perspectives on VJ practice: The art of performing moving image
The Work of Richard Seifert & Denys Lasdun: A Comparative Study of Their Buildings and Reputations.
Interrogating Artist-Teacher identity formation in Adult Community Learning
In Transition: People, landscape and nature in the East Anglian edgelands