Peter Stupples
Peter Stupples is currently Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic He was formerly Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Art History and Theory 1990-1998 at the University of Otago.
He has written widely about Russian visual culture, his research speciality, and the social history of art. Among the six books published is 'Pavel Kuznetsov: His Life and Art', Cambridge University Press, 1989. Recent journal articles include: ‘Visual Voices: Heeding the Specificity of the Cultural Context of Art’, Junctures, 2007, pp. 1-10; ‘Suprematism in the Antipodes: Malevich in New Zealand’, New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 41: 2007, pp. 19-35; ‘Malevich and Vorticism’, Canadian American Slavic Studies, 4: Winter, 2008; ‘Ground’, Scope, Art 3, November 2008, pp. 149-157, ‘The Vestimentary and Identity: British Pop Art’, Context, 18: May 2009, pp. 5-10; six entries in the Beloved: Works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, December 2009, ‘Art Education and Curating’, Scope: Art and Design 4, November 2009, pp. 144-150; ‘Art and Sacral Space’, South African Journal of Art History, vol. 24, no.3, 2009, pp.127-136. ‘The Ceramics of Willem Brouwer and Maori Art’, Journal of New Zealand Art History vol. 31, 2010, pp. 90-101 and ‘Neuroscience and the Artist’s Mind’, South African Journal of Art History, 2010, vol. 24, no.4, pp. 43-57
Stupples has also curated art exhibitions at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery: – November 2004-July 2005 ‘Sites for the Eyes: European Landscape in the Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’; April 2006-July 2007 ‘War and Peace’; ‘RAINZ: Russian Art in New Zealand’, June-September 2009. He has also curated five shows in the Faculty of Law, University of Otago, 2009-2011 and also ‘Art in Practice’ in the Department of General Practice and Rural health in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Otago.
He organised the symposium ‘Art and law’ with the Faculty of Law, University of Otago and the Dunedin School of Art in November 2010 and is currently organising the ‘Art and Medicine’ symposium in August 2011.
He gave the Abbey College Prestige Lecture for 2011 on ‘Australian Aboriginal Art as “Art”’ and has been invited to give the William Mathew Hodgkins Lecture at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in August 2011 on ‘Kikerino and Russian Art Nouveau Architectural Ceramics’.
See Staff Research for a comprehensive Research Profile for Peter.
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