JULES FINDLEY PhD SFHEA
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julesfindley.com
@julesfindley
PROFILES
https://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)
LECTURING
October 2013 – present University of Brighton
Principal Lecturer: Fashion Communication
EDUCATION
2018 PhD Royal College of Art
Supervisors: Dr Claire Pajaczkowska and Freddie Robins
Title: Fragmentation: Materialities in Mourning in Complicated Grief
https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/3465/
2011 Open University Units:
Postgraduate Diploma in Managing Performance and Change; Strategy.
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:
Exhibition TAIWAN: International Biennial for Paper Fibre Art (IBPFA) EARTH SPEAK: Giving Voice to Paper. Open Call, Peer reviewed and selected.
Water-Babies Series 1 2m x1m handmade paper installation to be exhibited at National Taiwan Craft Research Institute, Nantou, Taiwan, November 2023 – March 2024 https://ibpfa.org
Catalogue entry and Certificate of Participation in ‘Works with Meaning’ p68. – Jules Findley, 31 March 2024
Journal: Second-Hand and the Tacit, Published peer reviewed paper
Findley, J., 9 Dec 2022, In: JOMEC: Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Journal. 17, p. 206-224 19 p. Open Access
https://jomec.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10.18573/jomec.230
Workshop: Second-hand and the Tacit Workshop
Findley, J., 16 Jun 2022, Second-hand in Troubled Times.
15-16 June 2021 ‘Secondhand Futures in Unsettled Times’ University of Cardiff
https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/secondhandcultures/secondhand-cultures-in-unsettled-times-workshop-recordings/ ‘Secondhand and the Tacit’ Workshop and Presentation
Exhibition SHANGHAI: Feasts on Paper 2021 International Biennale Paper, Shanghai, China, ‘Water Babies, My Love’ Exhibition, Open Call work in progress about water babies, waiting for return to UK
Catalogue entry and Certificate of Participation: Findley, J., 25 Sep 2021
https://culture360.asef.org/opportunities/2021-shanghai-international-paper-art-biennale-call-works/
Catalogue entry and Certificate of Participation: Findley, J., 21 June 2023
Exhibition SHANGHAI: Feasts on Paper 2019 International Biennale Paper, Shanghai, China, ‘Edge of Grief 1, 2 and 3’ Exhibition, Open Call. A version of this was first exhibited in 2015, as part of a research conference ‘Why Would you Lie?’ and for my PhD and Symposium April 2018 in Dyson Building, RCA. After the PhD Viva, I dropped it, and spent three solid weeks remaking the exhibit in July 2019, as it had been accepted into the Shanghai Biennale for September – November 2019
https://v.qq.com/x/page/j0930vi16kg.html
Catalogue entry and Certificate of Participation: Findley, J., 10 Sep 2019
Journal: Biomimicry using Embodied Materials in Paper Making Workshops, Published peer reviewed paper
Findley, J., 23 Jan 2019, FTC FutureScan 4: Valuing Practice
Workshop: Feminist Substrate, published peer reviewed paper and workshop
Findley, J., 25 May 2018 DRS University of Brighton
Exhibition: Fragmented Portrait March 9 – 29 2018 Drawing Exhibition ‘Marks Make Meaning’ Gallery University of Brighton
Findley, J. 9-29 March 2018, University of Brighton
Exhibition: Marks Make Meaning Findley, J., 9 Mar 2018 RCA Dyson Building, Battersea, and University of Brighton Exhibition
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/whats-on/gallery/gallery-exhibitions-2018/marks-make-meaning-drawing-across-disciplines
Monday 19 March 2018, Live drawing event: open to all visitors of the exhibition
A live drawing workshop Jules will create a large rough drawing in the gallery, and provide commentary on the progress and subject. Visitors are invited to interact by asking questions and can participate by creating their own drawing. The session will close with a brief discussion considering the works created by participants.
Publication: ‘Reinventing, Rethinking, and Representing Menopause: Beyond the Interdisciplinary Paradigm’ September 29, 2018 Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge (CRASSH|) http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27716
Published on the ARB website peer reviewed pieces from handmade paper alongside 26 other artists.
Findley, J. Sept 2018 CRASSH ARB, Cambridge
Exhibition: Fragmentation: Materialising Mourning through Complicated Grief, Exhibition and Symposium April 9 -13, 2018 Royal College of Art, Dyson Gallery, Battersea Solo exhibition of PhD practice work. ‘Fragmentation: Embodied Materiality’. @jules.findley
Findley, J., 2018 RCA Dyson Building, Battersea
Exhibition: Being Human Festival 17 – 25 November 2017: The Journey of Maternal Matter, Exhibition
Findley, J., 23 Nov 2017, Royal College of Art, Kensington: Being Human Festival 2017. 3 p. (Being Human Festival) Craft, Absorption and Maternal Loss
Findley, J., 3 Nov 2017.
Publication:
PhD by Design §3 Contribution published September 2016
ISSN: 2349 4678 online and ISSN: 2349 465X print
Exhibition:
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 https://gendergeneration.rca.ac.uk/about/
July 15 2016 WP Conference Student Experience and WP “Into the Arts” University of Brighton https://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’
https://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
https://fashioninfiction2014.com/
September 13 – 15 2013
“Beauty in Death” paper presented at BEAUTY3 Inter-disciplinary.net, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, https://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,
https://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,
https://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 https://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) https://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 https://www.lindaduvall.com/
https://www.pavedarts.ca/2016/the-disappearing-hole/
September 2016 Awarded https://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 https://www.lindaduvall.com/
https://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
https://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
https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events
‘Ripped apart’ 2017, fragmented portrait on handmade paper
September 2016 RCA Dyson building Gender Generation .. https://gendergeneration.rca.ac.uk/about/
’Without a body’ 160 paper clay 4” bodies on display
January 2016 Work in Progress RCA Kensington Gulbenkian Gallery
https://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
https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/why-would-i-lie-exhibition/
https://lie.rca.ac.uk/ 3no installations made from hand made paper
January 2015 Work in Progress RCA Kensington Gulbenkian Gallery
https://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
https://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
https://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
https://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 https://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
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