Ship to Shore and Powerful Tides
- Submitting institution
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University for the Creative Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Wainwright, J. 2018. SS
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- T – Other; multi-component output comprising curation of 2 exhibitions and a monograph
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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2 - Fine Art and Photography Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Ship to Shore and Powerful Tides’ is a research output by Professor Jean Wainwright comprising two exhibitions and a book that together explore artistic responses to the sea.
The first component was the exhibition ‘Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea’, curated by Wainwright and extending over two sites in Southampton, the John Hansard Gallery and SeaCity Museum. This was the first exhibition to link the history of Southampton as a seaport with contemporary artists’ responses to the lure of the sea. It included the work of 17 contemporary artists, museum objects, testimony from Southampton’s oral history archive, and a new sound installation work composed from oral recollections and archival recordings by Wainwright, whose curatorial and critical practice is centred on the artist interview.
The book ‘Ship to Shore’ includes a substantial introductory essay by Wainwright, a chapter by the writer and maritime historian Philip Hoare, and interviews by Wainwright with all 17 artists in the exhibition. It presents new insights into the working methods and artistic responses, personal and political, of the artists in the ‘Ship to Shore’ exhibition.
Wainwright was able to continue her investigation into artists’ relationship to the sea in the exhibition ‘Powerful Tides’, curated to mark the 400th anniversary of Chatham Historic Dockyard. It brought together significant museum loans of historical works with the work of contemporary artists, structured around a narrative that journeyed from the rivers Medway and Thames out to the open sea.
The supporting portfolio presents contextual information including research aims, context and processes leading to new insights, and information on the public reception of the research. It includes the research itself as images of works from the exhibitions, object lists and installation views. The research is also submitted as a PDF of the book ‘Ship to Shore’.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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