Biography
2011 - present Senior Lecturer in the School of Design, University of Leeds
2006 - 2011 Lecturer in the School of Design, University of Leeds
2003 - present Co-convenor of LAND2 a landscape and visual arts research network
2006 - 2009 Visiting Research Fellow University of the West of England
2003 - 2006 AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
Teaching
I teach levels 1-3 at undergraduate level in both studio and theoretical modules and contribute to MA, MPhil and PhD at postgraduate level. I welcome practice based PhD and MPhil applications in the broad arena of place, memory, identity.
Research Interests
My research explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and geography; it investigates their relationship through drawing, painting and scholarly writing.
My current research project Spectres on the Beach develops the themes outlined above: I consider my re-presentations of landscape’ in relation to Karen Till’s notions of spectral traces and Iain Biggs’ work on deep mapping as well as Marianne Hirsch’s considerations of ‘postmemory’. This builds on the work I undertook through my recent AHRC fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts entitled Painting and Postmemory: re/visiting, re/visioning, re/placing.
I am co- convenor of LAND2. I run this creative practice-led research network with Iain Biggs UWE as a national network of artist / lecturers and research students with an interest in landscape / place-oriented art practice. Members of the network share a common interest in how art can engage with the possibilities and problems of landscape / place as it is understood today, while recognising the contested nature of both. The network meets for presentations of members’ work, has a web site at www.land2.uwe.ac.uk (that both represents the network and serves as an educational resource for those interested in practice-led research into landscape), undertakes occasional group projects, and organises conferences and exhibitions. We have recently forged international links with the University of Minnesota. There are several members of the School of Design who are members of LAND2.
Publications
Selected Exhibitions: One Person Shows
- 2012 Abbey Walk Gallery, North Lincolnshire
- 2011 Katakomby Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
- 2011 Spectres on the Beach F Block Gallery, UWE, Bristol
- 2010 Postmemorial Landscapes, Armory Gallery, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
- 2008 Tense: Miles Meehan Arts Centre Darlington
- 2008 Evocations: Drumcroon Gallery, Lancashire
- 2007 Resort viii Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, University of Bath
- 2006 Resort vii Solo exhibition in the New Hall Art Collection, University of Cambridge
- 2006 Resort vi 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, North Lincolnshire
- 2006 Resort vi University of Leeds Gallery
- 2005 Resort iv The Gallery, Gainsborough’s House, Suffolk
- 2005 Resort iii Gallery 33, Swan Street, London
- 2004 Resort ii Gallery Oldham
- 2003 Resort Only Atelier, Argentinier Strasse, Vienna
- 2003 Judith Tucker Oriel Plas Glyn-y Weddw Gallery, Gwynnedd, Wales
- 2003 Caesura: the small series Gallery 33, Swan Street, London, March 3 –27
- 2002 Caesura Dean Clough, Halifax April 13th – June 30th
- 2002 Caesura 2 Mrua Gallery, co Clare, Eire
- 2000 Crossing Mrua Gallery, co Clare, Eire
- 1999 Shift The Mary Ogilvie Gallery, St. Anne’s College, Oxford
- 1997 Crossing Two Lands St Matthias Kolleg, Tunsdorf, Germany
- 1996 Trevelyan College, Durham University
Group exhibitions
- 2011 Space, Place and Spectral Trace BV Gallery, Bristol
- 2010/11 The Nature of Landscape 2 Visions and Distillations of Landscape and Place Abbey Walk Gallery and Surface Gallery Nottingham
- 2010 At Sea Thegallery@360° trust Devon
- 2010 All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
- 2009 Revisiting the Beach Exlibris Gallery, Fine Art Department, Newcastle University
- 2009 Fieldwork: an exhibition exploring concepts of place and landscape An Tobar Tobnermory, Mull
- 2008 All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space, F Block Gallery, UWE, Bristol
- 2008 Directions in Drawing, Brindley Gallery, Runcorn. Curator Louise Hesketh
- 2006 Painting Lives, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate. Curator Jane Sellars
- 2006 Talkshow: LAF Group Show, Lounge Gallery, London
- 2006 Migratory Aesthetics University of Leeds Gallery. Curator Griselda Pollock
- 2004/5 LAN2D: Beyond Landscape? Co-curator of and contributor to the inaugural exhibition of LAN2D. Dean Clough Halifax and Royal West of England Academy Bristol
- 1999 Manchester Academy of Fine Art
- 1998 University of Newcastle Gallery, Australia
- 1996 Glasgow Art Fair represented by Hirschl Contemporary Art
- 1995 Highly Commended Finalist in Bayer Earth Art Prize, London
- 1988 Finalist for Windsor and Newton Young Artists Award. Royal Institute of Oil painters, London
Publications
- 2011/12 Tucker J Spectres on the Beach: Concrete Remains, Ghost Rockets and Pleasure Cruises in Geography and Memory: Explorations in identity, place and becoming eds Owain Jones and Joanne Garde-Hansen Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming
- 2011 Tucker J..On the Beach at Bornholm: Journal of Visual Art Practice 9(3): 267-272
- 2010 Tucker J. The Lido in the Forest: Painting, Memory and Subjectivity in Memory, Mourning and Landscape: Interdisciplinary Essays eds Elizabeth Anderson, Avril Maddrell, Kate McLoughlin and Alana Vincent. Rodopi Press Amsterdam. Pp 191-216
- 2009 Tucker J. Belated Landscapes: A Second-Generation Aesthetic Practice in a British Context Journal for the Study of British Cultures (JSBC) (Vol. 16, 1/2009, 41-55)
- 2007 Tucker J Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation in Culture, Creativity and Environment: new environmentalist criticism. Eds Fiona Becket and Terry Gifford, Rodopi Press Amsterdam. pp 197-211
- 2007 Tucker J Painting Places: A Postmemorial ‘Landscape’? in Migratory Aesthetics. Eds. Samuel Durrant and Catherine Lord. Rodopi Press Amsterdam 59-8
- 2006 Tucker J Resort: re/visiting, re/visioning, re/placing Journal of Visual Art Practice 5(1): 95–106
Conference Papers
- 2012 Between Spectral Traces and Concrete Reminders: a postmemorial landscape? (Keynote) at ‘Situating States of Mind’, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2011 Spectral Traces at National University of Maynooth, Eire
- 2010 Mapping Spectral Traces an international and interdisciplinary Humanities Symposium Virginia Tech USA
- 2010 Spectres on the Beach: Concrete Remains, Ghost Rockets and Pleasure Cruises at Exploring the Edge of Trauma The 7th Cultural Intersections International Colloquium, presented by: Kingston University, UK and McMaster University, Ontario
- 2010 The Nature of Landscape: distillations of landscape and place. Symposium Abbey Walk Gallery Lincolnshire
- 2010 On the Beach at Bornholm: tourists, soldiers artists at Spectral Traces a LAND2 symposium at University of Leeds
- 2009 Tense at UCL Urban Laboratory Seminar: Landscape and Memory. University College, London
- 2009 Drawing the Uncanny (Keynote) at Revisiting the Beach University of Newcastle
- 2008 Drawing Away: Unstable Relations at All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space, UWE, Bristol
- 2008 Memory Matters. Forgetting to Remember/Remembering to Forget’ Conference, University of Kent (September 2008)
- 2008 The Lido in the Forest: Painting, Memory and Subjectivity at Memory, Mourning, and Landscape, University of Glasgow
- 2007 Present Tense: Drawing Close to Death. 8th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal University of Bath
- 2007 Invited participant at Slip Frame a panel discussion on the space between frames, looking at digital and film frames, painting, memory and affect at the APT Gallery, London, organised by London Metropolitan
- 2007 Invited participant at (Re)placements Memory Matters organised by Space and Place University of Minnesota U.S.A.. Financially supported by the University of Minnesota. USA
- 2006 Inside Out: Drawing the Domestic Uncanny. CongressCATH 2006 The Afterlife of Memory: Historia/Memoria/Amnesia (5 - 8 July, 2006, at the University of Leeds, UK.)
- 2005 Here and There: Why Represent Landscape? invited keynote speaker at ‘Common Ground’ Rugby Art Gallery and Museum in association with the University of Northampton and Landscape Research. (invited)
- 2005 Invited speaker at Migratory Aesthetics organised by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) University of Amsterdam & Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (Centre Cath) University of Leeds. (Financially Supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
- 2004 Painting Places: A Postmemorial ‘Landscape’? At Art After landscape: Memory, Place and Identity. Conference organised by University of the West of England and University of Leeds. Proceedings to be published by Journal of Visual Arts Practice 2006
- 2004 -Painting Places: A Postmemorial ‘Landscape’? At The Politics of Cultural Memory Manchester Metropolitan University
- 2003 ‘Painting and Postmemory’ at More Than a Change of Address. The conference of the Second Generation at the Weiner Library, London
- 2002 Inaugural seminar of LAN2D research network at University of the West of England Bristol (Invited)
- 2002 ‘Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation’ at Creativity, Culture, Environment, the biennial conference of the UK branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. University of Leeds
- 2002 ‘Painting as a Place to go Places’ at Internationalism and Arts of Cross-Culture, a conference in association with the journal The Cutting Edge, Peterborough School of Art(s) and Leicester University held at the British Psychological Society, London. (Invited)
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