University of Aberdeen Department of Art History

Huge congratulations to our PhD student Freya Juul Jensen, who has received a Foundation Grant from Funds for Women Graduates, together with the Lady Joan Reid Award in recognition of her outstanding application! 🥳🤩👏
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/history-art/news/23264/

Team ABDN Art History past & present: Dr Helen Pierce & our emerita Professor Jane Geddes at the preview for Peacock & the worm's New Aberdeen Bestiary exhibition at last night! The exhibition opens to the public on 8 June, free entry, and well worth a visit: https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/whats-aberdeen-art-galleries-and-museums/new-aberdeen-bestiary
Thank-you to Nicole for the photo!

Fantastic to see our department represented at by our Interdisciplinary Research Fellow Issy Gapp and PhD student Maria Nordvall!
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/news/23211/

We're *delighted* to shout about Dr Isabelle Gapp's funding award from The British Academy for "From the Floe Edge", her collaborative interdisciplinary project on coastal sea ice at Kinngait, Nunavut ❄️❄️❄️
Find out more here: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/history-art/news/23189/

Job opportunity! We're looking for a Teaching Fellow in Art History, 5 months (0.6 FTE), to cover the absence of a substantive post holder with funded research leave. If you'd like to contribute to our excellent record of student satisfaction, applications close 30 May 2024:
https://www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/teaching-fellow--557770.html

A splendid series of papers from our PhD and MLitt cohort at today's University of Aberdeen Department of Art History Postgraduate Conference! Well done to all our presenters 🥳

What a fantastic double book launch for Issy Gapp and Hans Hönes this afternoon at the University of Aberdeen! Congratulations to both authors, and more fascinating reading to add to our lists 🥳📚
https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/a-circumpolar-landscape
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/tangled-paths

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A new opportunity has arisen to join our small team and to help deliver exceptional customer care for Orkney’s five star Arts Venue.

The Pier Arts Centre is seeking to appoint a part-time Seasonal Gallery Assistant to work throughout the busy season.

Closing date for applications 5pm, Monday 27 May 2024

For details head to https://www.pierartscentre.com/current-opportunities

Happening tomorrow, everyone welcome!! 🥳🥳🥳
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/history-art/events/20674/

A date for your diaries! Join us on 15 May to celebrate the recent publication of books by department members Isabelle Gapp and Hans Hönes:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/history-art/events/20674/

As well as thinking and writing about art, some of our students have been creating and curating, resulting in the Beyond the Granite Walls exhibition in the University of Aberdeen Library foyer! Great work, Allie, Hope and Mhairi! 👏👏👏

A very successful fieldtrip to Duff House today for some of our Level 3 and 4 students! We spent time with photographer Arpita Shah in the exquisite Street Level Photoworks exhibition 'Nalini'. Join us tomorrow at when Shah will be in conversation with Catriona McAra:
https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/whats-aberdeen-art-galleries-and-museums/photography-arpita-shah-grandmother-muse-portraiture-and-heirlooms

A date for your diaries! Join us on 15 May to celebrate the recent publication of books by department members Isabelle Gapp and Hans Hönes:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/history-art/events/20674/

to students on our MLitt course "Displaying Faith" at the Aberdeen Treasure Hub last year, viewing artworks from Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums! If you'd like to know more about our range of postgrad programmes (on-campus and online, taught and research), join the University of Aberdeen's Postgraduate Open Day on 16 May:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/study/virtual-open-day.php

A reminder that Arpita Shah and Catriona McAra will be in conversation at this Saturday, and everyone's welcome to join us!

Join us on Saturday 4 May at when photographer Arpita Shah will be in conversation with Catriona McAra about her series 'Nalini'; this event is free, with no need to book!
https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/whats-aberdeen-art-galleries-and-museums/photography-arpita-shah-grandmother-muse-portraiture-and-heirlooms

Interested in the culture and history of NE Scotland (15th to 18th century) and making links to the present? Come along to this free event on Saturday 18th May!

http://abdn.io/EK

We would definitely encourage you to join one of these fantastic gallery tours, organised by the UoA Art History Society and Museums and Special Collections, University of Aberdeen! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Only 3 more weeks to get a guided tour of our Striking Impressions exhibition!

Our student guides are ready to give you, your family, and your friends free tours of the current exhibition ‘Striking Impressions’. Join a bite-sized tour for an introduction to the exhibition themes and some collection highlights chosen by each week’s student guide.

Tours run on Wednesday lunchtimes from 13:00 - 13:30.

Last tour is Wednesday 15th of May.

http://abdn.io/Ei

Further creative and cultural opportunities have been added to the list of paid ABDN Internships for summer 2024, including a Documentation Assistant role with Aberdeenshire Museums Service, Campaign Assistant with The Belmont Cinema and two roles with Station House Media Unit! Applications close on 5 May.

Interested in working in the creative and cultural sector? We are currently advertising 9 paid summer internships for current University of Aberdeen students with the following organisations:

Greyhope Bay, Aberdeen Inspired, Peacock & the worm, Befriend a Child, Aberdeen Academy Of Performing Arts, Aberdeenshire Council, The Belmont Cinema, Station House Media Unit

Applications close on Sunday, 5th May. Don't miss out!
https://brnw.ch/21wJjpp

Join us on Saturday 4 May at when photographer Arpita Shah will be in conversation with Catriona McAra about her series 'Nalini'; this event is free, with no need to book!
https://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/whats-aberdeen-art-galleries-and-museums/photography-arpita-shah-grandmother-muse-portraiture-and-heirlooms

Environmental Art History - The Recording Where the specificity of the environment has often been overlooked in studies of art history and visual culture, environmental art history realigns art historical concerns with environmental realities.

If you're at the University of Aberdeen today for , Team ABDN Art History is here to answer all your questions about our fantastic undergraduate degree and courses! We're in Elphinstone Hall until 1pm so don't delay!

Some fantastic summer internship opportunities for University of Aberdeen undergraduates (Years 1, 2 & 3) and postgraduates, including a studio assistant placement with Peacock & the worm!

Keen to get some work experience over the summer?

We have a range of paid summer opportunities now open for applications.

Find out more: https://brnw.ch/21wJ3p8

Join us, in person or online, for our next Art History Research Seminar on Weds 24 April, when Professor Sarah Smith (Glasgow School of Art) will speak to us on "Decolonial Encounters with Hollywood Cinema: The Fragment as Audiovisual Metonym in Artists' Moving Image"
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/history-art/events/20623/

Happening today!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Join us online on Monday 22 April for a virtual roundtable on Environmental Art History: presented by the Network in Canadian History & Environment - NICHE and the University of Aberdeen featuring a stellar cast of speakers, and chaired by the University of Aberdeen Department of Art History's Isabelle Gapp and Hans Hönes!

Hans Hönes' essay 'Flat Iconology: Metamorphoses of a Method in British Exile' has been published in "Art Historiography & Iconologies Between East & West", edited by Wojciech Balus & Magdalena Kuninska:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003137528/

Our student guides are ready to give you, your family, and your friends free tours of the current exhibition ‘Striking Impressions’. Join a bite-sized tour for an introduction to the exhibition themes and some collection highlights chosen by each week’s student guide.

Tours run on Wednesday lunchtimes from 13:00 - 13:30

http://abdn.io/Cg

A new review of "Tangled Paths", Hans Hönes' biography of Aby Warburg, in the Times Literary Supplement!

Motif man | Edward Wilson-Lee The world in which this biography opens saw itself on the edge of a nervous breakdown, driven to distraction by technology, the pressure of work and

Congratulations Issy!! 🥳🥳🥳

A fantastic fully-funded PhD opportunity, co-supervised by Dr Isabelle Gapp from the University of Aberdeen Department of Art History and Prof John Underhill from the University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences! Open to UK and international students, deadline for applications: 13 May 2024.

PhD Opportunity - A visual history of Sir Charles Lyell’s notebooks The ultimate outcome of the project will have important implications for understanding the effects that two centuries of climate change has had on landscapes.

Potentially of interest to our Level 4 students graduating this summer...? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Could you be our next Heritage Trainee in Scotland?

Have a passion for built heritage? Want to kickstart your career? Apply now!
https://heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/scotland-heritage-trainee/
Application deadline: 6th May 2024

Thanks to funding from Historic Environment Scotland & National Trust for Scotland

Join us online on Monday 22 April for a virtual roundtable on Environmental Art History: presented by the Network in Canadian History & Environment - NICHE and the University of Aberdeen featuring a stellar cast of speakers, and chaired by the University of Aberdeen Department of Art History's Isabelle Gapp and Hans Hönes!