JULES FINDLEY FRSA, SFHEA
m: +44 (0)77 1213 7783
j.findley@brighton.ac.uk
jules.findley@network.rca.ac.uk
www.julesfindley.com
www.julesfindley.tumblr.com
@julesfindley
@LOSSandLOVE
PROFILES
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/jules-findley
https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/jules-findley-14054/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julesfindley/
ORCID:0000-0002-2395-5040
https://brighton.academia.edu/JulesFindley
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) since June 2013
LECTURING
October 2013 – present University of Brighton
Principal Lecturer: Fashion Communication
Undertaking research in mixed media Textiles in the School of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, Jules Findley’s practice emerges through looking at bereavement and the emotions that contribute to this life changing event. Studies in bereavement have led to questioning in-depth areas of contemporary funeral rites, as well as sensitively exploring death of a loved one and an understanding of the emotions around grief. Research ideas from the wider context of grief and domesticity are conceptually formed through asking questions and in installations raising public awareness.
Focusing on the memorialisation and grief using material of paper. The studies in bereavement have led to questioning in-depth areas of contemporary funeral rites, as well as sensitively exploring complicated grief and how mothers carry complicated grief of their loved one forward to grief reparation form a feminist perspective. Funereal rites, earth, layers and coverings are a part of this enquiry, looking at preparation for death using bespoke methods in practice and examining memorialisation using materials such as paper, resin, photography and film
EDUCATION
2012 – 2018 PhD candidate Royal College of Art (5th year part-time of 6 years)
Supervisors: Dr Claire Pajaczkowska (Leverhulme Research Fellow 2002 – 2004) and Freddie Robins; Reader: www.freddierobins.com
Title: Fragmentation: Materialities in Mourning in Complicated Grief
PhD by Project and will disseminated through installations and exhibition.
2009 – 2011 Open University Units:
Postgraduate Diploma in Managing Performance and Change; Strategy.
2006 – 2008 MA in Learning and Teaching
Assessment in HE, post compulsory, 25,000 word dissertation on ‘Why Art and Design Student Choose Practice based PhD’s, Professional doctorates, and DFA’s’. Other Units: Research Methods in Higher Education; Postgraduate Supervision; Assessment and Change, incorporating different teaching methodologies.
RESEARCH:
Publications:
PhD by Design §3 Contribution published September 2016
ISSN: 2349 4678 online and ISSN: 2349 465X print
RCA interdisciplinary competitive biannual exhibition 2015, ‘Why Would I Lie?’
Essay for Book published April 2015 www.lie.rca.ac.uk ISBN 978-1-910642-05-4 @lierca
‘PAIN without Boundaries’ published by Interdisciplinary.net ISBN 978-1-84888-316-1
Published chapter in book Section 111: Creating from Pain ‘Funeral Rites, Pain and Bereavement: A Study using Textile Art’ January 2015
Conferences Papers Presented:
May 21 – 25 2017 Artist Residence ‘Down the Hole’ invited by Linda Duvall, Sasskatoon, Canada
September 8, 9 2016 ‘Maternal Absorption’ Gender Generation RCA presented paper and had work selected for exhibition by Hermione Watson http://gendergeneration.rca.ac.uk/about/
July 15 2016 WP Conference Student Experience and WP “Into the Arts” University of Brighton http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/into-arts
July 1 Papermaking workshop with DRS
27/28/29/30 June 2016 DRS 2016 Conference University of Brighton
‘PhD by Design’ 27 June Paper Accepted ‘Edge of Grief’
http://www.drs2016.org/#drs2016
September 3-6 2015
‘Edge of Grief’
Death, Dying and Disposal 12, (DDD12) Romania
June 1-2 2015 ‘Death of a child without a Body’
M’Otherhood Southbank University, London
https://motherhoodandcreativepractice.wordpress.com/
June 12 – 14, 2014
Fashion in Fiction: Style Stories and Transglobal Narratives: 2014, paper presented ‘Fashion in Death’ City University of Hong Kong
http://fashioninfiction2014.com/
September 13 – 15 2013
“Beauty in Death” paper presented at BEAUTY3 Inter-disciplinary.net, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/beauty/project-archives/conference-programme-abstracts-and-papers/
September 5 – 7 2013
“Knitting and Bereavement” paper presented at Death, Dying and Disposal 11, Open University, Milton Keynes,
http://www.deathandsociety.org/pages/ddd11-conference.php
July 10 2013
“Research, Cognition and Practice” presented paper at Knowledge and Experience conference at Department of Humanities, University of Southampton,
http://discover.medievalchester.ac.uk/static/media/uploads/KE%20conf%20programme%2023.06.13.pdf
May 9 – 12 2013
“Pain in Bereavement”
paper presented at PAIN4 Inter-disciplinary.net, Michna Palace, Ujed, Mana Strana, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/pain/call-for-papers/
Attended Student Experience Conferences UCA 2013, 2012, 2011
Residences:
September 2017 Chosen for Open Call from Digital Artist Residency at (DAR) http://digitalartistresidency.org invited artist Linda Duvall to join in an Overseas Conversation around maternal loss in the forced Child Migration Programme across the ‘colonies’, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
May 2017 Invited to join artist Linda Duvall ‘Down a Hole’ two day residence spending six hours each day down a hole with Linda Duvall in Saskatoon, Canada. The response being screened live from ‘PAVED’ Saskatoon http://www.lindaduvall.com/
http://www.pavedarts.ca/2016/the-disappearing-hole/
September 2016 Awarded http://residencyinmotherhood.com/ from Lenka Clayton developing an artist based residence on the mother eliminated
Exhibitions:
May 2017 Invited to join artist Linda Duvall ‘Down a Hole’ a two day residence spending six hours each day down a hole with Linda Duvall in Saskatoon, Canada. The response being screened live from ‘PAVED’ Saskatoon http://www.lindaduvall.com/
http://www.pavedarts.ca/category/exhibitions/current/
completed 2 sketchbooks and 11 A1 works on paper
March 2017 Site Fringe 2017 Elephant and Castle
Conference about Transgender Gender and Psychoanalysis
http://www.the-site.org.uk/events/transgender-gender-psychoanalysis/
Freud Museum and SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
January 2017 Work in Progress RCA Kensington Research 5 Floor
http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events
‘Ripped apart’ 2017, fragmented portrait on handmade paper
September 2016 RCA Dyson building Gender Generation .. http://gendergeneration.rca.ac.uk/about/
’Without a body’ 160 paper clay 4” bodies on display
January 2016 Work in Progress RCA Kensington Gulbenkian Gallery
http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/re-think-research/
‘Hanging by a Thread’ 2016, fragmented portrait on handmade paper
April 2015 ‘Why would I Lie’ research biennale RCA Battersea, Dyson Building
http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/why-would-i-lie-exhibition/
http://lie.rca.ac.uk/ 3no installations made from hand made paper
January 2015 Work in Progress RCA Kensington Gulbenkian Gallery
http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/school-material-work-progress-show/
Discussing death without a body. 77 handmade 4” bodies made from paper clay
January 2014 Work in Progress RCA Kensington Gulbenkian Gallery
http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/wip2014_material/
Resin made memoria made into new ‘momento mori’
September 2013 – May 2014
LACE1 part of the CRYSALIS Open Call Exhibition, Two large A1 installations at the Lace Museum, Calais, France
http://www.crysalis-network.eu/en/lace-effects-112.htm
June 21 – July 28 2013
Installations in with participating artists, Curious Trail 2013, West Norwood Cemetery, London
http://www.westnorwoodcemetery.com/curious_2013/curious_artists_2013/jules_findley/
January 2013 Work in Progress RCA Kensington Gulbenkian gallery
Poster of haptic image
LOSS exhibition February and March 2012 articulating bereavement with Alice Kettle, Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex
www.lossandlove.co.uk
www.facebook.com/LOSSandLOVE
@LOSSandLOVE
Sponsorship for LOSS from:
Chichester Cathedral and from the Dean and Chapter
Cruse and Winston’s Wish charities;
Tecni-Cable for providing a 14m tensile steel cable and fittings free of charge
Omni colour prints, London
UCA Research funds
Other Exhibitions:
West Dean College, West Sussex (Landscape Concept Designs and Art), May 1995
Tate Gallery, Liverpool (Knit and ceramic sculpture) 1989
Design Council Young Innovators Exhibition London, and on tour, 1988 (Knitted Sculpture)
February 2012 ‘LOSS’ published catalogue with Alice Kettle ISBN 978 -1-905476-671
March 2012 ‘LOSS’ postgraduate seminar with UCA & RCA ISBN 978-0-9570797-2-4
September 2006 NETWORKS Conference, Cambridge – ISSN 1743-9787
‘The analysis of Pedagogy in Delivering High-End Software Programmes to Art and Design Students’ Flexible, e-learning
RAINBOW GROUP research Cambridge University http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/rainbow/
February 2006, invited to talk about lip synch and muscle movement in digital animation as follow up from Siggraph conference 2005
Key Note Speaker
HEFCE Centre Point 10th May 2011
Centre Point, London WC1A 1DD
‘PowerPoint is Dead’
invited by Marie-Therese Gramstadt UCA Farnham
Awarded internally from University of Brighton for Travel 2017 to Artist Residence Canada
Awarded internally from UCA funding in 2008/9, 2009/10, 2010/11 for own research £8,000
Awarded from UCA Learning and Teaching funds 2010 to £5,000 in one year for research into Student Experience.
Awarded Internal Fellowship by UCLT (University Centre for Learning and Teaching) Anglia Ruskin University February 2006.
Paper delivered at Learning and Teaching conference Chelmsford September 2006 on ‘The Analysis of Pedagogy in Delivering High End Software to Art and Design Students’.
Film and Television Broadcast
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4964581/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277558/
1999 ‘The Planets’ directed by David McNab, executive producer John Lynch (TV Mini-Series documentary) (visual effects designer) Worked on all six epis
– Different Worlds producer David McNab
– Terra Firma – producer James Younger
– Giants – Voyager 1 & Voyager 2 producer Gina Kocjancic
– Moon – producer Jacqueline Smith
– Star – producer Becky Jones
– Life – producer James Younger
– Destiny – producer David McNab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets_(TV_miniseries)
Shots were re-cut into the following TV programmes:
How the Universe Works
The Blue Planet
Wonders of the Solar System
How the Earth was Made
Wonders of the Universe
Films worked on:
1999 Sleepy Hollow 3D tracking of Johnny Depp on his horse
1998 Lost in Space (animator: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, “Blawp” animation unit)
1999 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (special effects compositor)
1997 Preaching to the Perverted (special effects coordinator)
1997 Preaching to the Perverted (digital compositor) / (main title sequence designer)
1996 Space Jam (compositor)
1996 The Adventures of Pinocchio (special effects compositor)
1996 Mission: Impossible (special effects compositor)
1996 Muppet Treasure Island (special effects compositor)
1995 Leaving Las Vegas (special effects compositor)