Rachel Wells: “Scale in Contemporary Sculpture”
In the fifth of this term’s graduate seminars, Rachel Wells with speak on “Scale in Contemporary Sculpture”.
Rachel Wells is Lecturer in Art History and Theory at Newcastle University. Her current research interests include the address of responsibility within contemporary art, and the impact of globalisation on contemporary art production and reception. She is also working on a forthcoming book examining the issue of scale in contemporary sculpture. Before joining the department at Newcastle, Rachel was Tutor in Fine Art (History and Theory) at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. Previously, Rachel taught at BA and MA level at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she was also Henry Moore Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. She has taught courses on contemporary art and globalisation, twentieth-century sculpture, the history of photography, the relationship between art and text, and the exhibition of contemporary art.
Rachel completed her MA (2004, Distinction) and PhD (2008) at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Prior to her research in the History of Art, Rachel read English at Cambridge University.
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