
Lecturer
- About
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Biography
Catriona is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History. Prior to Aberdeen, Catriona spent the first decade of her career leading research curation at Leeds Arts University and University Collections at St Andrews.
She was awarded her doctorate in History of Art at the University of Glasgow followed by a post-doc at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh.
Catriona is an experienced art curator, working closely on shows of many contemporary artists (such as Yoko Ono, Ilana Halperin and Mieke Bal), and has written a range of catalogue essays and interpretation texts for commercial galleries and public museums.
External Memberships
Scottish Society for Art History (SSAH)
International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS)
Association for Art History (AAH)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Honorary Fellow in Art History, University of St Andrews
Prizes and Awards
Terra Foundation for American Art research and development grant (2021)
- Research
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Research Overview
Catriona is a specialist in modern and contemporary art history, and a leading authority on the work of Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington, with particular interests in revisionary historiography and feminist-surrealist legacies in early twenty-first century art and literary practices.
Catriona is author of A Surrealist Stratigraphy of Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm (Routledge, 2017), and The Medium of Leonora Carrington (Manchester University Press, 2022). She is interested in how Carrington, Tanning and others have become 'media' for the next generations of artists and writers.
Catriona is currently planning a new project on Scottish women artists. This follows long-term curatorial work on the geo-heritage of Ilana Halperin which resulted in the edited volume Felt Events (MIT, 2022).
Further interests include the green politics of the Aridjis family, Michelle Williams Gamaker's 'fictional activism,' and the work of Mieke Bal.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Art History.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Art History
Accepting PhDsResearch Specialisms
- Creative Arts and Design
- Curatorial Studies
- Feminism
- History of Art
- Performing Arts
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Supervision
Supervisees
- MISS GENEVIEVE STRONG
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- Publications
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Nightgown Parties
Studies in Costume & Performance, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 253–263Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/scp_00078_3
Feminist-Surrealism in the Contemporary Novel
A History of the Surrealist Novel. Watz, A. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 348-363Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts
Manchester University Press, Manchester. 248 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksIlana Halperin: Felt Events
Strange Attractor Press, London. 224 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksKate MccGwire: Boundary Creatures
Kate MccGwire. Sanders, M. (ed.). Anomie Publishing, pp. 79-85, 6 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersIn Conversation: Curating Fictional Activism
So Anyway, no. 8Contributions to Journals: Review articlesOpen Sesame: Dorothea Tanning’s Critical Writing
Surrealist Women's Writing. Watz, A. (ed.). Manchester University Press, pp. 210-224, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersKate MccGwire: Menagerie
Corridor 8Contributions to Journals: Review articlesA Feminist Marvellous: Chloe Aridjis and the Female Human Animal
Leonora Carrington. Cox, A., Shannon, R., Man, M., Hewison, J. (eds.). 1 edition. Vernon Press, pp. 1-18, 18 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersGlowing Like Phosphorus: Dorothea Tanning and the Sedona Western
Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 84-105Contributions to Journals: Articles