Are you interested in developing your research skills to inform your artistic practice?

Deliberately informal, The Social includes presentations by photography/arts professionals, offering tips on chosen themes and encourages participants to join the conversation and share their own insights.

The theme for this session is 'doing research' with writer, curator and educator Shirley Read and artist Judy Price. Together they will offer some background and advice related to the theme.

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Biographies:

Judy Rabinowitz Price is a London-based artist whose research-led practice encompasses photography, moving images and sound, composed as single-screen works and multiscreen installations. Often drawing on images and sounds from archival sources as well as the sustained study of a place through networks, collaborations and activism, she is interested in how art can reveal the multiple histories and redrawn boundaries of contested sites and engage with collective struggles and the resilience of those that endure them. Palestine was an enduring focus of her work between 2004-2017 resulting in two major bodies of work Within This Narrow Strip of Land (2008) and Quarries of Wandering Form (2017).  Her current work The End of a Sentence examines the impact of the criminal justice system on women in the UK, specifically through the lens of HMS Holloway which was decommissioned in 2016. She is Postgraduate Research Coordinator in the Department of Film and Photography and the Co-Director of SIME (Sound/Image/Media/Encounters Research Group) and teaches on the MA Photography program at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University.

Shirley Read is an independent curator based in London. She teaches exhibition workshops at universities, and interviews photographers at length about their life and work for the Oral History of British Photography a sound archive which forms part of National Life Stories at the British Library. She is co-author, with Mike Simmons, of Photographers and Research: The role of research in contemporary photographic practice (Taylor & Francis, 2017), amongst other publications.