Visual Arts and Theatre at SWGC


CURTIS, Gerard
Assistant professor
Keywords
• Art history; visual art; art criticism
Current research
• Nineteenth-century British art, sublime and portraiture
Past research
• Pre-Raphaelites, Ford Madox Brown
Potential research
• Image and word theory
• Body art
• Censorship and pornography

 

FOULDS, Don Assistant professor
Research specialty
• Sculpture

 

GOOD, Maurice Associate professor (retired)
Keywords
• Alexander technique; Cecil technique; Berry technique; W.B. Yeats; John Synge; Samuel Beckett; Classic theatre
Research specialty
• Acting and voice: Cecil, Berry techniques
• Introductory work on Alexander technique
• Introductory courses in theatre history; Greeks to present, Shakespearean acting; 20th century theatre acting
Current research
• "Under Ben Bulben"(in progress) solo program W.B. Yeats
• "The Ham in Sam" lecture and performances, son Samuel Beckett
• "John Synge"(continuing)
Past research
• "John Synge Comes Next" Dolmen Books & Oxford University Press & 72
• "Every Inch a Lear" Journal of Rehearsal. Samo Nis Press: 1982
• "Enchanted by Dreams"
• Classic theatre in the U.S. from Chicago to Houston
Potential research
• Acting techniques in classic and modern theatre
• Foundation of classical theatre companies in Newfoundland
• Shakespearean acting in Canada

 

HASNAIN, Arif Associate professor
Keywords
• Theatre; Restoration; William Wycherly; Judith Thompson; Caryl Churchill; Georges Feydean; Shakespeare; Checkov; Ibsen
Research specialty
• Theatrical productions and plays (period, genres and styles), including translations or adaptions of foreign language dramatic literature
Current research
• William Wycherly's "The Country Wife," Restoration period
Past research
• Judith Thompson's "Lion in the Streets", contemporary Canadian
• Caryl Churchill's "Light Shing in Buckinghamsire," contemporary British
• Georges Feydean's "Free Trade Hotel," Nineteenth-century French
Potential research
• Shakespeare
• Checkov (Russian)
• Ibsen (Norwegian)

 

JONES, Kent Professor
Keywords
• Visual art; painting, printmaking, drawing
Current research
• Painting prints and drawings, theme: Boxing in Ireland, Canada, and the U.S.
• Portrait project in drawing, St. John's, Newfoundland
Past research
• Paintings, prints and drawings, international touring exhibition (Ireland, U.S. and Canada)
• Portrait project in drawing, Corner Brook, Newfoundland
• Various exhibitions, international
Potential research
• Paintings, prints and drawings, theme: American culture of the 20th century
• Printmaking, retrospective 1969 to 2000

 

LIVINGSTONE, Ken Associate professor
Keywords
• Directing designer; theatre history; acting
Current research
• Shakespeare (site specific productions)
• Productions 1998-99
• King Lear, MacBeth, Chekhov, Three Sisters
Past research
• More than 200 professional productions, director
Potential research
• Theatre history of the 20th century, at the millennium
• Teaching acting for the next century

 

MACCALLUM, Marlene Associate professor
Keywords
• Photogravure and letterpress printing; bookbinding; pinhole photography
Current research
• Creation of a body of work comprised of photogravure prints and artist's books dealing with related themes and imagery
• Digital applications for letterpress printing
Past research
• Drypoint; mezzotint; water-based screenprinting and lithography


MORRISH, David Associate professor
Keywords
• Fine art photography; photogravure; alternative photo processes; heliogravure; letterpress
Current research
• Exhibition projects, photogravure, photogravure manual
Past research
• Alternative printing processes, photography
Potential research
• Future photographic (and other media) exhibition work, text on photogravure printing, letterpress, and artists' books


GRAHAM, John
Assistant professor
Keywords
• Book art projects; non-toxic printmaking methods; printmaking installations

 

 

 

 

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