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Biography
Helen is DJCAD’s open research, and EDI lead, and she also directs the MFA artistic research and writing module and the contemporary art practice dissertation modules.
She is currently in a three-book deal with Bloomsbury Academic Press (London & New York). Helen’s work Women Can’t Paint is held in the permanent research collections of the V&A, the Met (New York), MoMA (NY), Baltic, Tate Britain, the Museums Association, and many other international institutions.
Her artwork is included in the Brooklyn Museum’s artabase archive (New York). As an academic she applies disruptive techniques to challenge stagnancy in gender equality, feminist methodologies and the visual arts.
Helen welcomes applications from prospective PhD projects in the areas of visual arts (in)equalities, gender, intersectionality, feminisms (art and theory), gendered aesthetics, and painting theory.
Teaching
Current/forthcoming PGR and PhD students:
Almukaimi, Eman:
The Influence of European Modernism on Today's Arabic Contemporary Sculpture
Ananmalay, Kiyara:
Challenging representations in portraiture through the work of Zanele Mulholi and Ajamu X.
Awdhah Alotaibi
Analyzing the Impact of the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
on Thuraya Al-Baqsami's Artworks
Karami, Mahtab:
Comparative Gendered Aesthetics in Contemporary Afghan Painting, pre/post-Taliban occupation
Kennedy: Lauren-Marie:
The Gendered Politics of Veganism
MacKinnon, Kirstin:
Gendered Aesthetics in Contemporary Scottish Painting
Pakdel-Cherry, Sara:
Middle-Eastern Feminist Revolution Art and Gendered Textuality
Media availability
I am available for media commentary on my research.
Contact Corporate Communications for media enquiries.
PhD Projects
Principal supervisor
PhD opportunity
PhD opportunity
Stories
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University of Dundee students will join some of the art world’s leading voices to discuss the medium’s role in ending violence against women.
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Cultural identity and how it relates to physical land is at the centre of one student’s Fine Art project accompanying hundreds of others in the University of Dundee’s Art, Design and Architecture Graduate Showcase 2021
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The career of one of Scotland’s most beloved painters will be celebrated by the nation’s next generation of artists at an event hosted by the University of Dundee.