Helen Potkin
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Critical and Historical Studies
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Associate Professor
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am an art historian interested in the relationships between art and education and the role of participation in both. As Course Leader for the BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art History, I am engaged with the various ways in which history, theory and practice interact.
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I have worked with students on co-creating the curriculum and processes of decolonising. I'm interested in ecologies of theory and practice in the art school and am currently undertaking ethnographic research on the art school.
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) History and History of Art, University of York, 1988
- MA Sculpture Studies, University of Leeds, 1990
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, 2016
- Professional Doctorate in Education, 2022-ongoing
Domains
Courses taught
Publications
Book:
With Fran Lloyd, & Davina Thackara (2011) Public Sculpture of Outer South and West London (Public Monuments and Sculpture of Britain series), Liverpool: Liverpool University Press
Book Chapters
‘Inhabiting Site: Contemporary Art in Historic Interiors' (2011) in Fiona Fisher, Trevor Keeble, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Brenda Martin, eds., Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior: from the Victorians to today, London: Berg
‘Performance' (2000) in Feminist Visual Culture: An Introduction, edited by Fiona Carson & Claire Pajaczkowska, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Articles ‘An Experience of Introducing Reflective Journals' (2012) in Quality Enhancement in Learning and Teaching: How Ji8¸£ÀûÍø is improving the student experience, ADC. 30-32
‘Research and Employability: redesigning the curriculum in BA History of Art, Design and Film' (2011) in Tim Linsey (ed.) Quality Enhancement in Learning and Teaching: How Ji8¸£ÀûÍø is improving the student experience, ADC. 14-15
Articles:
Potkin, H. (2019). Co-creating the Curriculum. Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, 2(3), 154–171.
Conference Papers:
‘Curriculum co-creation: a transformative strategy to enhance student success' (with Annie Hughes, Equality Challenge Unit Conference Birmingham, 2017
‘Sleeping with Art: Hotel Room as Installation' Duration Conference, Culture Lab, Newcastle University 29-31 March 2012
‘In-habiting site: contemporary art practices within the historic(al) interior', Living in the Past: Histories, Heritage and the Interior, Ji8¸£ÀûÍø, London, 14-15 May 2009
‘Constructing Identities: Dora Gordine in 1920s Paris', Dorich House Conference: Women, Sculpture and Place, May 2004
Research students:
Katya Micallef
Celeste Baracchi
Camilla Terhorst
Lisa Slominski
Publications
Public sculpture of Outer South and West London
Lloyd, Fran, Potkin, Helen and Thackara, Davina (2011). Liverpool, U.K.: (Liverpool University Press)
In-habiting site: contemporary art practices within the historic(al) interior
Potkin, Helen (2011). In: Fisher, Fiona, (eds.), Lara-Betancourt, Patricia, (eds.), Keeble, Trevor, (eds.) and Martin, Brenda, (eds.), Performance, fashion and the modern interior: from the Victorians to today. London, U.K.: Berg, pp 207-218
Performance art
Potkin, Helen (2000). In: Carson, Fiona, (eds.) and Pajaczkowska, Claire, (eds.), Feminist Visual Culture. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, pp 75-88
In-habiting site: contemporary art practices within the historic interior
Potkin, Helen(2009). In: Living in the Past: Histories, Heritage and the Interior: 6th Modern Interiors Research Conference, 14 - 15 May 2009 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.