Research trip 2025

In 2023 I received the Mark Henry Cain Memorial Travel Scholarship from the National Art School. This allowed me to spend six weeks travelling around the UK to research ideas for my postgraduate project and this page is a documentation of my itinerary.

https://nas.edu.au/2023-nas-awards-recipients/

London: 7-13 January

  • Turner Prize Finalists 2024, Tate Britian (Link)

  • Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit, Tate Modern (Link)

  • Leonora Carrington: Avatars & Alliances, Firstsite Colchester (Link)

  • Seeing and Unseeing the Pyramids: Lee Miller in Egypt, Petrie Museum, UCL. (Link)

  • Four Witches & a Warlock: Magickal Art by Rosaleen Norton, Ithell Colquhoun, Madge Gill, Leonora Carrington & Austin Osman Spare, The Last Tuesday Society (Link)

  • Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Florence c. 1504, The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, Royal Academy (Link)

  • Anthony McCall: Solid Light, Tate Modern (Link)

  • Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet Tate Modern (Link)

Scotland: 14-21 January

  • Symbolism & Celtic Revival 1885–1918, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (Link)

  • Victoria Gallery, The McManus, Dundee

  • A Fragile Correspondence, V&A Dundee (Link)

  • Nell Baxter and Dundee's Celtic Revival, Lamb Gallery, University of Dundee (Link)

  • Soft Impressions, Dundee Contemporary Arts (Link)

  • Barry Le Va: In a State of Flux, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (Links)

  • Inked up: Printmaking in Scotland, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

  • Everlyn Nicodemus, Modern One, Edinburgh (Link)

  • Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990, Modern Two, Edinburgh (Link)

  • Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (Link)

Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff and Glastonbury:
21-30 January

  • Rinko Kawauchi: At the edge of the everyday world, Arnolfini, Bristol (Link)

  • Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (Link)

  • Amgueddfa Cymru, Cardiff (Links)

  • The Roman Baths, Bath (Links)

  • Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury (Link)

  • Glastonbury Tor, Glastonbury (Link)

  • The Chalice Well, Glastonbury (Link)

  • Edward Burne-Jones & William Morris, Stained Glass Windows, Birmingham Cathedral (Link)

  • Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (Link)

Cornwall: 31 January –
5 February

  • Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds, Tate St Ives (Link)

  • In the Land of Living Stones, The Crypt, St Ives (Link)

  • Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, St Ives (Link)

  • Penwith Gallery, St Ives (Link)

  • Living Stones, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives (Link)

Belfast: 6 – 13 February

  • The Linen Hall Library, Belfast (Link)

  • Gaeltacht Quarter, West Belfast (Link)

  • Giants Causeway & Antrim Coast (bus tour)

  • Crumlin Road Gaol (Link)

  • Ulster Folk Museum (Link)

  • Beuys: 50 Years Later, Ulster Museum, (Link)

  • Threads of Empowerment: Conflict textiles’ international journey, Ulster Museum (Link)

  • I see his blood upon the rose, The MAC Centre, (Link)

  • Katherine Penney: Misaligned, Ulster University (Link)

London: 14-19 February

  • Tarot: Origins & Afterlives, The Warburg Institute (Link)

  • Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries, Imperial War Museum London (Link)

  • Britain and Europe 800 BC–AD 43, The British Museum (Link)

  • New Contemporaries, Institue of Contemporary Arts (Link)

  • Linder: Danger Came Smiling, Hayward Gallery (Link)

  • Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, Hayward Gallery (Link)

  • The Guildhall Art Gallery (Link)

  • Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land, Barbican (Link)

  • Noah Davis, Barbican Art Gallery (Link)

  • Jake Wood-Evans: Nocturne, Unit Gallery (Link)

  • Paul Graham: Troubled Land, Huxley-Parlour Gallery (Link)

  • London Mithraeum (Link)