About the Editor of n.paradoxa
Katy Deepwell
ISSN 1462-0426
Katy Deepwell is an art critic and lecturer, based in London.
She founded n.paradoxa online in December 1996 and established
the printed version as a biannual publication in January 1998, published
by KT press.
Follow the links to find out more information on her work over the last
twelve years in :-
Teaching and Education Publications :
Books Essays Articles
Conference Papers Guest Lectures
To contact the editor, email : k.deepwell@ukonline.co.uk
or write to : 38 Bellot Street, East Greenwich, London SE10 OAQ,
England.
Tel/Fax +44 (0)208 858 3331
Teaching and Education
Katy Deepwell is Head of Research Training for the University of
the Arts, London (September 2004 - present).
She works with M.Phil and PhD students at UAL, runs the Research Network
for the UAL, and is a supervisor.
Katy Deepwell wrote her PhD on 'Women Artists in Britain between
the Two World Wars' (London, Birkbeck College, 1991). Her MA is in the
Social History of Art (Leeds University, 1986) and her BA (Hons)
in Fine Art (Painting) (St Martins School of Art and Design, 1985)
She was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Fine Art at University of
Ulster, Belfast, November 1999-January 2003.
She has worked as a lecturer in art theory and twentieth century art
history at a number of different colleges in Britain: Oxford-Brookes
University (1995-1996 & 1997-1998); Goldsmiths' College (1989-1995);
West Surrey College of Art and Design (1993); Kent Institute of Art and
Design (1986-1992) and at the Art History Dept, University of Copenhagen
(Oct-Nov 1998).
She was Chair of the Executive Committee at Women's Art Library,
1990-1994. From 1997-2000, she was President of the British Section of the
International Art Critics Association (AICA), a UNESCO
non-governmental organisation. In 2001, she joined the Irish Section of
AICA.
She has been critic-in-residence at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
(July/August,1999); Nordic Art Centre, Suomenlinna, Finland (August 2000);
and for 2 months at Die Hoege, Germany (2003).
From April 2004-March 2006, she is an International Advisory Board
Member for Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto (CAMK) in Japan.
Katy Deepwell : Publications : Books
- Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland (an anthology of 16
interviews, London: IB Tauris, 2005)
- (co-edited with Mila Bredikhina) A Russian Reader on Feminist Art
Theory (Moscow: Rosspen Publishing House, forthcoming 2005, an
anthology of 27 texts translated for the first time in Russian).
- Editor, introduction & essay Women Artists and Modernism
An anthology of 11 new essays on women artists in the twentieth century,
focusing on different approaches to feminist methodologies. (Manchester
University Press, 1998).
- Editor Africa and Art Criticism: Nigeria, Zimbabwe & South
Africa Papers from 1996 AICA conference. Eastern Art Report
monograph series, (Saffron Books/EAR, 1997).
- Editor (& introductory essay) of New Feminist Art Criticism:
Critical Strategies, Manchester University Press, 1995. (Spanish
edition, Universitad Valencia, Cathedra, 1998)
- Ten Decades: The Careers of Ten Women Artists born 1897-1906
Exhibition Catalogue of Arts' Council Touring Exhibition, Norwich
Gallery, NIAD, April 1992 (Tour 1992: Morley College, London &
Howard Gardens Gallery, CIAD)
Essays in Books and Exhibition Catalogues
- catalogue essay for Work/Labour curated by Sylvia Eiblmayr
(Innsbruck: Galerie im Taxispalais, June 2005).
- 'Valuation - De-valuation - Re-evaluation' in Julia Shäfer (ed)
Trautes Heim/ Cosy Home (Leipzig: Galerie für
Zeitgenossiche Kunst, Koln: Walter Konig Books, 2005).
- short essay for Festival catalogue and curation of 'Dreams of the
Future: Suzanne Treister and Olga Kisseleva' Ljubljana: Skuc Gallery for
City of Women 10th Annual Festival, 1-10th October 2004.
- 'Issues in Feminist Curation: Strategies and Practices' in Janet
Marstine (ed) An Introduction to New Museum Theory (USA:
Blackwells, forthcoming 2005).
- 'Women's Art Exhibitions' From my Fingers: Living in the
Technological Age. Key Event of the First International
Women's Art Festival in Taiwan. (Taiwan: Kaohisung Museum of Fine Arts,
May 8-July 27 2003) (English text pp. 46-51: Chinese, pp.40-45).
Organised by the Association of Women Artists and Elsa Chen.
- Sanja Ivekovic's Frauenhaus (Zagreb: Museum of
Contemporary Art, March 2003). 5 pages, no page numbers. (Text in
Croatian and English).
- 'Défier l'indifférence a la différence: les
paradoxes de la critique d'art féministe' in Pierre-Henry Frangne
& Jean-Marc Poinsot (eds) L'Invention de Critique D'Art
(France: Presses Universitaries de Rennes, 2002, text in French)
pp.191-205.
- 'Torture, Gender and Representation: Against the Torture of Women' in
Art Against Execution and Torture (Kaliningrad: Center for
Contemporary Art) published as a CD-Rom and website in English and
Russian, Aug 2001
- 'Reality/Real Estate' and 'Parallel and Plural Narratives' in Reality/Real
Estate Foundation, Center for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava: SCCA
Annual Exhibition.(exhibition 2001, catalogue 2002)
- 'Women, Subjects and Objects and the End of History (Painting)' in
N.Green and P.Seddon (ed) Whatever happened to History Painting?
(Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2000)
- 'Fra Objekt til Subjekt - forkydninger omkring det Kvindelige
Feministke Subjekt / Constested Constructions: Objects into Subjects -
and the Shifting Boundaries of Female Feminist Subjects' in Stine
Hoholt/ Christian Gether (eds) Mennlichkeit/ Man Denmark: Arken,
September 2000.
- 'Text and Subtext' in book by Curator/Editor: Binghui Huanghui Text
and Sub-Text to accompany Earl-Lu Gallery,Lasalle-SIA College of
Arts' International Touring Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Women
Artists.(Singapore, July,2000).
- Power Ekroth, Tove Helander (eds) Expositioner - Anthologi om
Utstallningsmediet (The Exhibition as an Artistic Medium) Stockholm:
Konstfack, 2000 published for the Sollentuna Art Fair.
- April 2000 · 'All You Need is Love' essay in group exhibition
catalogue All You Need is Love. Gdansk, Poland:
Bathhouse/Gallery of Modern Art. Curator: Aneta Syzlak.(May-June 2000)
- March 2000. 'Desire by Design' AICA 1998 conference papers. Transition:
Changing Society and Art (Tokyo: AICA, Japan & AICA Press,1999)
- ‘Digital Sampling: Women Artist's Use of Technology in Europe,
Canada, America and Australia’ Edge Cutters Women’s Research
Group Desire by Design University of Westminster, (IB Tauris,
1998)
- ‘Bad Girls: Feminism and Identity Politics in the 1990s’ in
J. Steyn (ed) Beyond Identity: Other Than Identity (Manchester
University Press,1997) pp.152-166.
- Essay: 'Orthodoxies and Paradoxes in Feminist Art' , Women and
Art, papers from 1997 conference, (CCA Galleries, Glasgow,1998)
- Catalogue Essay: 'Visions of Identity in Flux: Chila Kumari Burman',
exhibition catalogue, Genders and Nations: Shirin Neshat, Chila
Burman curator: Salah Hassan, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, April 1998.
- Introductory essay ‘Women Artists: Careers and Training in
Britain and Ireland in the 20th C’ and Entries on E.Agar,
I.Colquhoun, J.Dismorr, G.Hermes,W.Nicholson, D.Proctor, E.Walker,
J.Morreau, Sylvia Gosse in Delia Gaze (ed) Dictionary of Women
Artists (Fitzroy Dearborn,1997).ISBN 1-884964-21-4
- 'A Critique of Kant's notion of Disinterestedness: Sophie Calle &
Adrian Piper' T.Moualla (ed) Visual Poetics (U.A.E.: Ministry of
Culture, Govt. of Sharjah, publication of Sharjah Biennale committee,
March 1997)
- ‘Feminist Readings of Louise Bourgeois’ Ian Cole (ed)
Louise Bourgeois: MOMA Papers, Vol 1 MOMA,Oxford, March 1996.
- ‘Hepworth and Her Critics’ David Thistlewood (ed) Barbara
Hepworth Reconsidered Liverpool University / Tate Gallery,Liverpool
(March 1996) .
- ‘A Fair Field and No Favour: Women Artists in Britain' in Sybil
Oldfield, ed., This Working Day World: Womens Lives and Culture in
Britain 1914-1945, Brighton: Falmer Press,1994 pp.141-155.
- ‘Women Artists: Careers and Training in Britain and Ireland in
the 20th C’ and Entries on E.Agar, I.Colquhoun, J.Dismorr,
G.Hermes, W.Nicholson, D.Proctor, E.Walker, J.Morreau, Sylvia Gosse in
Delia Gaze (ed) Dictionary of Women Artists London: Fitzroy
Dearborn, 1997.
- Catalogue Essay : Deanna Petherbridge: Themata London, Fisher
Fine Art, Jan 17-Feb 18 1990 (Reprinted in WASL Journal No.33
March/April 1990 pp.12-13)
- Catalogue Essay :Jacqueline Morreau : Themes and Variations
Ferens Art Gallery,Hull, Touring Exhibition November 2-Dec 14 1996
Published Articles
- 'Models and Questions: issues in feminist art criticism' Art
Gamadas (Japan: Kumamoto: CAMK) forthcoming 2005. (text in Japanese)
- 'De Kunstenaar also tussenpersoon opvoeder en bureaucraat:
Kanttekeningen bij de Biennale van Liverpool, 2004' /' A review of the
Liverpool Biennale, 2004' Context K: Actuele Kunst #2 (2005)
Belgium, CIAP pp.123-144 (text in Flemish)
- 'Women Artists in Europe' Jamini: An International Arts Quarterly
(Dhaka, Bangladesh), October 2004 (republished in Likovne Besede/
Artwords (Slovenia) vol.69/70 winter 2004 pp.32-36, text in
Slovenian). '
- 'Report on post-yBA situation: London in 2003-2004' Context K:
Actuele Kunst #1(CIAP, Belgium) January 2004 pp.97-110.
(text in Flemish)
- 'Musing on Myths' Paletten (Sweden) 253/254 nr 3-4 2003 vol.
64 pp.48-51 (text in Swedish)
- 'Challenging the Indifference to Difference: The Invention of
Feminist Art Criticism' The Sandwich Man (The Netherlands) June
2003
- 'Warum is eine feministische Kunstzeitschrift immer noch notwendig?
(Why is a feminist journal not redundant?') Olympe: Feministische
Arbeitschefte zur Politik (Switzerland) Heft. 19 December 2003
pp.134-135. (text in German)
- 'Geo-political shifts, Women Artists and impact of models of
Globalisation in contemporary art.' pH (Kalinigrad, Russia)
Post-Geography (2002) pp. 22-29 (text in English/Russian)
- entry on "Feminist Art Practice" in Encyclopedia for
Women's Studies (Routledge, 2001)
- 'Paradoxes in Contemporary Feminism & the role of the feminist
art critic' D'ART (Bratislava) Feb 2001. (Trans. to Slovak).
- (with Joseph Backstein) 'Notions of "Nordic" Art - a Set of
Paradoxes' NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art) Newsletter
(Helsinki, November 2000)
- 'Sanja Ivekovic' trans.of conference paper from opening conference of
exhibition Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (Zagreb) Zarez (July
2001)
- Jane Prophet The Imaginary Organs of a Cyborg London,
Umbrella, CD-Rom booklet,1998
- 'Sassy or Not’ On Women’s Body Art Siksi: the Nordic
Arts Review, Vol X1, No.4. Winter 1996. 1997 pp.88-90
- Second version ‘Pains and Pleasures: Women's Body Art in the
1990's’ Contemporary Visual Arts February 1997.
- ‘Reading in Detail: the work of the Nigerian woman sculptor,
Ndidi Dike Nnadiekwe’ Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art
(America) , No. 2 , Fall 1996.
- 'Mona Hatoum’ Tate Gallery Magazine Issue 6 Summer
1995. pp.32-35. Translated for Turkish Magazine, Anons
July/August 1995 Issue 53-4. pp.28-30. Also translated in German,
P.Weibel (ed) Inclusion/Exclusion (exhibition catalogue,
Graz,1997) pp.219-220.
- 'Uncanny Resemblances: Restaging Claude Cahun in ‘Mise en Scene’’
Women’s Art Magazine No.62 Jan/February 1995 pp.17-19.
- ‘Paint Stripping: Feminist Possibilities in Painting After
Modernism’ Women’s Art Magazine No.58 May/June 1994
pp.14-17.
- 'Rethinking the Nature/Culture Distinction' Women's Art Magazine
No.52 May/June 1993 pp.10-12
- 'Women Artists in Britain' Hard Times (German/English
magazine, Berlin) No.47 Winter 1992 pp.51-56
- 'Time Ladies: Feminist Art Criticism into the 1990's' Women's Art
Magazine No.46 May/June 1992 pp.7-8
- 'Feminist Art History and Academic Institutions Today: A European
Perspective' Women's Art Magazine No.41 July/Aug 1991 pp.24-25
- 'Emmy Bridgwater' (co-written with Deborah Sugg) Women's Art
Magazine (formerly WASL Journal) No.37 Nov/Dec 1990 pp.14-16
- 'Dod Procter (1892-1972)' WASL Journal No.34 May/June 1990
pp.19-20
- 'Art Beyond Barriers: the International Association of Women in the
Arts Conference and Exhibition, Bonn, Germany, October 1989' WASL
Journal Nos 31/32 Dec 1989/Feb 1990 pp.34-36
- 'Landscape and Feminist Art Practices' WASL Journal No. 27
Feb/March 1989 pp.25-26
- 'Images of Women: Interview with Clare Short MP' Art Monthly
No.123 Feb 1989 pp.12-15
- 'Identity - Further Questions'Tower Hamlets Women's Art Forum
Newsletter Nov 1988
- 'Women in the Seven and Five Society' WASL Journal No.22
April/May 1988 pp.10-12
- 'Readings of the Jewish Artist in Late Modernism: Kitaj and Rothko'
(co-written with Juliet Steyn) Art Monthly No.113 Feb 1988
pp.6-9
- 'Almost Unknown: RA Women: Some Unanswered Questions' WASL
Journal No.19 Oct/Nov 1987 pp.6-8
- 'In Defence of the Indefensible: Feminism, Painting and
Postmodernism' Feminist Art News Sept 1987 Vol.2. No.4 pp.13-15
(also editor of this issue)
- 'Mark Rothko' The Jewish Quarterly June 1987 Vol.34 No.2
(126) pp.47-50
- 'The Memorial Exhibition of Ethel Walker, Gwen John and Frances
Hodgkins' WASL Journal No.16 April/May 1987 pp.5-6
Conference Papers
- April 2005 Co-chair of panel with Britta Dwyer 'Women's Contribution
to Visual Culture between the Wars, 1918-1939' Association of Art
Historians Conference, Bristol. May 2004
- 'Iimeframes in feminist art practices' The Little Garden project
workshop, one-day symposium, Vendsyssel Museum of Art, Hjoerring,
Denmark.
- Oct 2002 'Coming Round the Mountain' panel discussion to accompany
exhibition Mons Veneris: Female Geographies Austrian Cultural Forum,
London
- February 2002 'Art and Feminism' panel discussion, ARCO '02, Madrid.
Chair: Uta Meta Bauer.
- September 2001 'Cultural knowledge, genealogies and the problem of
geo-political location(s) producing ethnocentrism(s) in feminist theory'
University of Bielefeld, Germany.
- April 2001 exhibition symposium for Sanja Ivekovic: Personal Cuts
Innsbruck: Galerie im Taxipalais. Conference paper published in full
in Zarez (Croatia: Zagreb, (111/55) June. (trans. into
Croatian).
- September 2000 Conference Paper, Co-operation international
conference of feminist art and theory, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Feb 2000 Panel participation on 'Feminist Art Criticism', CAA, New
York.
- June 1999 'The Invention of Art Criticism' Archives d'Art
Contemporain/ University of Rennes 2.
- November 1998 Conformism & Non-Conformism, Soros Centre, Vilnius,
Lithuania
- September 1998 AICA International Congress, Tokyo, Japan.
- July 1998 FACES conference, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Vienna - see also
online : Developments in Feminist Art
Criticism Lecture, The Depot, Vienna, July 1998
- April 1998 'What's Going on in London' Siksi lecture, Konstakademie,
Stockholm
Recorded on Tape for
(What's
Going On)
- February 1998 Women's Caucus for Art, Toronto conference
- November 1997 'Ostranenie' Cyberknitting panel, Bauhaus, Dessau,
Germany.
- July 1997 'Transforming Feminism’ conference , Women's Studies,
Lancaster University.
- March 1997 ‘Women and Art’,conference, CCA Galleries,
Glasgow
- December 1996 ‘The Last Four Years of the 20C’ - 4th
international conference of 6th Cairo Biennale.
- October 1996 Panel on Feminist Aesthetics for joint Canadian and
American Associations of Aesthetics, Montreal,Canada.
- April 1996 Paper on Feminist readings of Kant ‘Beauty and its
Shadow’, AAH conference,Newcastle
- Feb 1996 ‘Exchanging Views from Europe’ Women Caucus in the
Arts, Boston. An international panel arranged to present the work of
women artists groups from Britain, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and
Ireland to an American audience
- July 1995 On the Question of Paint : Paint-stripping continued...'
Feminist Arts and Histories Network Conference, Leeds University.
- Oct 1994 'Hepworth and Her Critics' Representing Hepworth, Tate
Gallery Conference,Liverpool
- Sept.1993 "Questions for Feminist Art Criticism" Feminist
Art & Histories Network Conference Leeds University
- April 1992 'Women Artists in Britain between the Wars' Women in
Britain,1914-1945 , Sussex University
- April 1989 'Landscape and Feminist Art Practices', Association of Art
Historians Conference, Institute of Education, London
- June 1988 'Women and Art Education', Wakefield Women's Festival,
Wakefield
- March 1988 'Feminism, Painting and Postmodernism', Torn Halves
Conference, Culture Colloquium, Southampton University
Guest Lectures
- Feb 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto, Japan.
- Jan 2004 MA/Diploma Course, ICA, Moscow
- November 2003 Camberwell School of Art November 2003 Contemporary Art
Research group, Edinburgh University.
- Jan 2003 "Begriff im Bild" day conference, Bremen
Kunstlerhaus.
- November 2002 MA/Diploma course, ICA, Moscow
- March 2002 'Feminism in an International Frame' Manifesta 4,
Staatlichen Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst - Stadelschule, Frankfurt.
- November 2000 Cardiff School of Art.
- November 2002 Chisenhale Gallery, London. Discussion with Jemima
Stehli and Maria Lind.
- March 2000 IVAC, lecture tour to Lagos, Nsukka, Nigeria.
- October 1999 Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.
- October 1999 Nomadic Academy Sessions, St Petersburg University,
Russia.
- September 1999 Photography Gallery, London "Francesca Woodman &
Helen Van Meene"
- September 1999 AICA, Croatia, lecture tour to Dubrovnik, Rijeka and
Zagreb.
- August 1999 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
- January 1999 Glasgow School of Fine Art.
- Oct-November 1998, Dept of Art History, University of Copenhagen,
Danish Art Academy of Copenhagen and Odense Art Academy.
- September 1998 University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
- July 1998 The Depot, Vienna,Austria.
- March/April 1998 Umea Art School,Umea; Konstfack, Stockholm
- December 1997 London College of Printing
- March 1997 Middlesex University.
- October 1996 University of Western Ontario, London, Canada ; Capilano
College, Vancouver ; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon and University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
- March 1996 Ruskin School of Drawing,Oxford
- November 1995 Museum of Modern Art,Oxford
- October 1995 Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge
- September 1995 MaVis studios,special event, Wesley House,London
- May and Jan 1995 MA Art History, Winchester School of Art &
Design
- March 1995 MA Art History, University of East London and MA Theory
and Practice of Public Art and Design, Chelsea School of Art
- March 1994 BA Fine Art,Winchester School of Art and Design
- Feb 1994 BA Fine Art,Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College
- Jan 1994 MA Art Therapy,Goldsmiths College
- Nov.1993 Faculty of Art & Design,University of Derby
- May 1993 MA Arts Administration, City University
- April 1993 Norwich Gallery, Norwich Institute of Art and Design
- Nov 1992 Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff Institute of Art and Design
- March 1992 MA Dance Studies, University of Surrey
- Feb 1991 Sunderland Polytechnic
- June 1990 University of East Anglia
- May/June 1988 English Dept, UWIST, Cardiff North East London
Polytechnic
- June 1988 Southend College of Technology
To contact the editor, email : k.deepwell@ukonline.co.uk
or write to : 38 Bellot Street, East Greenwich, London SE10 OAQ,
England.
Tel/Fax +44 (0)208 858 3331
