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Isobel Whitelegg

TrAIN Core Member - Research Officer and AHRC Fellow

I completed my BA at Winchester School of Art, and went on to specialise in modern and contemporary Latin American Art in the Department of History & Theory at the University of Essex. While completing my PhD there, I was also involved in organising exhibitions as curatorial advisor to the University’s collection of Latin American art. My PhD thesis concerned the work of artist Mira Schendel, who was born in Switzerland, grew up in Italy and came to Brazil in 1949. I focused on her dialogues with writers, philosophers and other artists, a network that centred on the city of Sao Paulo but was extended as she travelled and exhibited internationally.

Schendel was one of several Latin American artists to travel to the UK for a solo exhibition at Signals London (1964-1966). An interest in the time that she spent in this country, and in the activities of Signals London, was a starting point for a wider investigation of the presence and critical reception of art and artists from Latin America in the UK. I am interested in the media, methods and spaces for discussion and display that create networks of transnational contact within the field of Latin American art. I have recently completed research in this area as Research Fellow for Latin American Art & the UK, an AHRC research project at the University of Essex, for which I convened a panel on Transnational Latin America for the project’s final symposium in April 2008.

As TrAIN’s Research Officer my role is to contribute to the ongoing development of relevant collaborative research: within TrAIN, across the University of the Arts London, and with external partners. I convene the TrAIN Open series, and manage the new TrAIN Associate Projects seed funding initiative.

Related Projects

  • Transnational Correspondence

    Transnational Correspondence is a collaboration between TrAIN and PPGAV, the centre for fine art research of the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. It stems from ongoing research carried out by TrAIN Research Fellow Dr Michael Asbury into the comparative reception of Brazilian art at national and international levels.
    Find out more about Transnational Correspondence

  • Meeting Margins

    Meeting Margins – Transnational Art in Europe & Latin America 1950-1978. A new approach to the study of art from Latin America that questions the role traditionally ascribed to New York as the dominant force in modern art in the post-war years.
    Find out more about Meeting Margins

  • TrAIN Open Series

    The TrAIN Open series is a forum for invited speakers to present exhibition, publication, and research projects in the form of lectures, discussions and screenings.

    Taking place at fortnightly intervals on Wednesday evenings during the academic term, the series is open to the public, as well as staff and students across the University of the Arts London.
    Find out more about TrAIN Open Series

  • TrAIN Associate Projects

    Tap is a new initiative, its aim is to identify relevant research across the University of the Arts London and support its development. TrAIN allocates seed funding and in-kind support to up to five projects each year.
    Find out more about TrAIN Associate Projects

  • TrAIN/Gasworks Artists' Residency

    International residencies raise specific questions for individual artists, and wider issues regarding how both local and international contexts are negotiated in practice.

    Each year, TrAIN collaborates with Gasworks International Residency Programme to offer a fully funded three month practice-based research fellowship for an artist not based in the UK.
    Find out more about TrAIN/Gasworks Artists' Residency

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  • Caroline Menezes

    Current PhD - Curatorship and the mapping the ‘artistic project’ of post-Duchampian art in Brazil and the UK in the late 20thC

    My research focuses on the problem of re-exhibiting a post-Duchampian artwork. Post-Duchampian practices can be defined as those that make regular use of abstract concepts as the key instrument for creative production rather than a tangible medium.
    Find out more about Caroline Menezes

  • Cinthia Marcelle

    Resident Artist - TrAIN/Gasworks 2008/09

    Marcelle’s practice extends from drawing and collage to city-scale interventions that are replayed as video or photography. In ‘Confronto’ (2005) for example, she arranged a street performance involving a group of the fire-jugglers who entertain cars waiting at red traffic lights; instead of moving aside when the lights turn green, the jugglers here stay in the middle of the road, increasing in number and persistently blocking the flow of traffic.
    Find out more about Cinthia Marcelle

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