Laura Dudley

Thesis title:

From Re-Construction to Co-Production: the past and present authorship of participatory art exhibitions.

Research Area

Cultural and Museum Studies

Publications

Design Remix Shape Repeat, Fab Cities Barcelona- Make Works at Derby Museums chapter, pg 158-162 (November 2019).
Museological Review Issue 24 - What is a Museum Today?, co-editor-in-chief for this peer-reviewed journal at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester (co-wrote pg 4-6 and published illustrations throughout).
Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum, National Gallery of Denmark, (October 2020) - Palle Nielsen's The Model- A Model for Quantitative Society: An investigation into restaged exhibition histories, and how these might be used to impact future learning programmes and collecting polices in art museums.- Upcoming

Conferences

Lasting Impressions II: Making and Re-Making the Replica, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (June 2019) - Bodyspacemotionthings: Robert Morris's 1971 exhibition and its subsequent 2009 recontruction at Tate Modern.
Culture in Urban Space, Comfort Hotel, Malmo (February 2020) - The Model for urban spaces in contemporary museums of modern art: Focusing on Palle Nielsen's participatory exhibition The Model, and its 2014 restaging at Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen.
School of Museum Studies Research Week, University of Leicester, Online (June 2020)- Arching and Collecting Reconstructed, Participatory Art Exhibitions.
Three-Minute-Thesis competition, University of Leicester, Online (June 2020)
ACHS: Museum Futures, Association for Critical Heritage Studies (August 2020)- Upcoming.
Museum Exhibition Design: Histories and Futures, Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton (September 2020)- Upcoming.

Public Engagement & Impact

Arts and Humanities Doctoral College Poster Faire, University of Leicester (March 2019)- Co-production as vehicle for change.
M4C Research Festival Poster Faire, University of Birmingham (May 2019)- 'Action Sculpture- exploring Robert Morris's exhibition 'bodyspacemotionthings', 1971/2009.
Corridor Conversations Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University (July 2019)- Workshop for inpacking key terminology in my research practice.
MA Oral Presentations assesment support, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester (February 2020)
Arts and Humanities Doctoral College Poster Faire, University of Leicester (March 2020)- The archive of Palle Nielsen's 'The Model', 1968/2014 and research finding from field research at Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen.
School of Museum Studies Digital Research Week Organising Committee Member, University of Leicester (June 2020)
Edior, Museums & Society, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester (August 2020)

Other Research Interests

Artist's Studios

Exhibition Design

Co-production and collaborative practices

Painting in the expanded field

Studio practice

Exhibition histories

Emphemeral art

Learning programmes in public museums and art galleries

Memberships

Association of Critical Heritage Studies (2020 onwards)
Eastside Projects ESP Member (2019 onwards)
British school at Rome (2019 onwards)
Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies (2019 onwards)
Museum and Society (2019 onwards)
Tate Archive Reader (2019 onwards)

Relevant Professional Experience

Present:

Make Works Derby and Derbyshire Co-ordinator, Derby Museums - Leading a volunteer training programme since 2017 with Derby College and University of Derby students to document local makers and manufacturers in film, photography and interviews for the Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill project. This project is working in collabaoration with Distributed Design at Fab Cities Barcelona.

SAF Rep, University of Leicester for Midlands4cities
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Museological Review Issue 24, University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies.
PGR Student Representative, University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies.

Previous:

Lifelong Learning Programme Assistant, Derby Museums (2018-2019)
Marketing Administration Assistant, Derby Museums (2017-2018)
Student Support Worker, University of Birmingham/Newman University (2017-2018)
Exhibitions and Display Intern, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (2017) (Exhibitions included: Dippy on Tour- A Natural History Adventure, Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity- Arts Council Collection, The Past is Now)
Gallery Assistant, Attenborough Arts Centre (2017) (Arts Council Collection touring exhibition Ryan Gander: Night in the Museum)
Exhibitions volunteer, New Art Gallery Walsall (2015-2017) (Exhibitions include: The Humble Vessel, Land, Sea and Air, Eva Rothschild ‘Alternative to Power’ and Idris Khan ‘A World Within’).

Education

MA Art Museum and Gallery Studies, University of Leicester (2016-2017)

PGCERT Fine Art, University of Wolverhampton (2015-2016)

BA Hons Fine Art, University of Wolverhampton (2012-2015)

Relevant Training Attended

Human-Centred Design Workshop, Derby Museums (October 2018)

PAST Records: 19th and 20th Century Design Archives, The National Archives (June 2019)

Art Education: Interesting Histories and Alternative Futures, Loughborough University (June 2019)

Rome: Changing physical and ideological landscapes of the eternal city, British School at Rome, AHRC (June 2019)

Tactile Access to Collections, Touring Exhibitions Group (October 2019)

Arts and Humanities Researcher Intergrity Training, University of Leicester (October 2019)

Peer Mentoring Training, University of Nottingham (July 2020)

Coronavirus basic awareness on production training, Screen Skills (July 2020)