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Dr Matthew Partington is V&A Museum Senior Research Fellow at the Bristol School of Art, Media and Design at UWE, Bristol. He is also Director of the National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts (NEVAC) Matthew's enamel work has concentrated on his interest in his family history. An extension of his concern as an oral historian to give a voice to those who would otherwise go unnoticed, his family history work is part of a desire to keep the memory of past generations alive. Curriculum Vitae: Date of Birth: Education: 1994 MA in Museum
Studies - Pass (Thesis: Distinction) 1992 BA Hons (2i)
History of Art
September 2001 – June 2004: Victoria and Albert Museum Research Fellow in the Applied Arts and Acting Director of National Electronic & Video Archive of the Crafts. June 1998 – September 2001: Research Associate, Digital Archiving and the Applied Arts, University of the West of England and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Oct 1994 - May 1998: Curator, Nature in Art, Wallsworth Hall, Glos., GL2 9PA
Online publication: ‘Ceramic Points of View’, oral history site on the V&A website featuring video, transcripts and images. www.vam.ac.uk/ceramicpointsofview Paper published in online journal: ‘Espresso, Exoticism and Earthenware: the coffee bar ceramics of the Picassoettes, 1952-1960’, ‘Interpreting Ceramics’ online journal, 2005, issue 6, http://www.uwic.ac.uk/ICRC/issue006/articles/02.htm Paper in conference proceedings: ‘The London Coffee Bar Problem of the 1950s – an eclectic design challenge to the universalism of modernism.’ Futureground, Design Research Society International Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 19.11.2004. ISBN 0975606026. Paper in conference proceedings: '1950s London Coffee Bar Ceramics', NCECA Journal 2003, vol. XXIV, pp.70-75, ISSN 0739-1544. (Published summer 2004). Exhibition catalogue essay: ‘Introductory essay’ to the catalogue of ‘Jewellery Unlimited’, a national exhibition of the Association of Contemporary Jewellers, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, April 2004. Journal article: ‘Coffee Culture’, in Ceramic Review, 206, March/Apr 2004, pp.32-33. Journal article: ‘Mo Jupp: an army of beautiful figures’, (exhibition review), in Ceramic Review, 205, January/February 2004, pp.56-57. Video commission: ‘Show5’, five edited videos of interviews with Michael Rowe, Ann Sutton, Jim Partridge, Carol McNicoll and Richard Slee. Commissioned by the Crafts Council in 2003 to be played at the museum venues of 5 retrospective exhibitions. Article in book: 'Studio potters and design: a case study on the Whieldon inspired earthenwares of Walter Keeler', in British Ceramic Design (1600-2002), published by the English Ceramic Circle, 2003. Video commission: ‘Containing Ceramics’, a video to accompany the Craft’s Councils exhibition of the same name at the SOFA Design expo. in Chicago, October 2002. Online paper: 'Producing an on-line undergraduate module for the Distributed Network of Electronic Resources', in http://www.brighton.ac.uk/designingbritain/, published online by the University of Brighton, September 2002.
Seminar: ‘Filming people handling and discussing V&A pots - an exploration of differing responses to the same objects'. Ceramics Study Day, V&A Museum, 30th January 2004. Paper: ‘Using recorded interviews for research purposes’, 19th September 2003, ALIAS Symposium, ‘Practice and Reflection’, organised by the Arts Council at the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen, Painswick, Gloucestershire. Paper: 'London Coffee
Bars of the 1950's', 13th March 2003, San Diego, California. Seminar: 'Research Interviewing approaches at NEVAC', 28 September 2002, University of Central England, Birmingham. A presentation given to PhD students and supervisors outlining NEVAC's approach to oral history interviewing. Paper: ‘Studio potters and design: a case study on the Whieldon inspired earthenwares of Walter Keeler’, 21 September 2002, Victoria & Albert Museum. Conference: ‘75th Anniversary Colloquium: Design and British Ceramics’, 21 September 2002. (Paper published in a book, June 2003). Paper: ‘Espresso, Exoticism and Earthenware: the coffee bar ceramics of the Picassoettes, 1952-1960’, 5 September 2002, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Conference: Design History Society Conference, 3-5 September 2002. Paper: ‘Producing
an on-line undergraduate module for the Distributed Network of Electornic
Resources’, 3 September 2002, University of Brighton. Conference: ‘Designing
Britain: the visual experience of post-war society’, 3-4 September
2002. Paper: ‘The National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts: Case studies in Craft History’, 28 November 2001, Rajabhat Institute Suan Sunuandha, Bangkok. Conference: The 4th Annual Seminar for Academic Education Covering New Technologies and Methodologies in Arts, Media and Design on ‘Teaching, Learning and Research for the Creative Professions’. Seminar: ‘Recording Interviews at the National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts’, Victoria & Albert Museum Research Department, Research in Progress Seminar series, 13 July 2001. Paper: ‘Michael Cardew at Winchcombe’, Michael Cardew Centenary Symposium, Arts Centre, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 27 June 2001. Paper: ‘Preciousness and weight in hand-made ceramics’, Precious: Objects and Collections, Sheffield Hallam University, 23 May 2001. Paper: ‘Academia Meets technology: Setting up a web-based video database at the National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts’, ‘New Directions in Systems Development 2001: Multimedia’, University of Wolverhampton, (sponsored by the British Computer Society),14 March 2001.
• As Director of the National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts (NEVAC) I am responsible for recording video interviews with craftspeople across a range of craft media. http://www.media.uwe.ac.uk/nevac/ • I am a member of the V&A Museum’s Crafts Committee. • I am a founding member of the ‘Interpreting Ceramics’ Journal, www.interpretingceramics.com. • I am a member
of the Management Committee of the Constance Howard Resource and Research
Centre in Textiles at Goldsmiths College, University of London. • I am external
examiner for the Contemporary Crafts BA (hons) degree at University
College Falmouth. • I am a member of the ‘Enamels, Textiles and Ceramics Applied Arts Research Group’ (etc) at the Bristol School of Art, Media & Design. http://www.media.uwe.ac.uk/etc/ • I am a member of the Design History Society. • I am Chair of the Faculty of Creative Arts’ Research Ethics Sub-Committee. • I am a member of the University of the West of England, Bristol’s University Research Ethics Committee. • I am a member of the University of the West of England, Bristol’s Academic Board. • I am a member of the Faculty of Creative Arts’ Faculty Board. • I am a member of the ‘Enamels, Textiles and Ceramics Applied Arts Research Group’ (etc) at the Bristol School of Art, Media & Design. http://www.media.uwe.ac.uk/etc/ • I teach visual
culture (levels 1, 2 and 3) in the School of Creative Arts, mainly
tutoring essays and dissertations. My wife's website
can be found at http://www.janinepartington.co.uk ADVISORY PANEL You can contact Matthew
on: · My wife Janine is an enamel artist. Her website can be found at http://www.janinepartington.co.uk |
