My practice explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and resort landscapes; it investigates their relationship through drawing, painting and scholarly writing. The focus of this research is to investigate how painting and ‘landscape’ might interrelate, how one can be the interface for the other, and what possibilities there are in the space that is created at this interface. My current research project Spectres on the Beach develops the themes outlined above: I consider my re-presentations of landscape’ in relation to Karen Till’s notions of spectral traces and Iain Biggs’ work on deep mapping as well as Marianne Hirsch’s considerations of ‘postmemory’.
This builds on the work I undertook through my recent AHRC fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts entitled Painting and Postmemory: re/visiting, re/visioning, re/placing. My paintings, drawings and writings that resulted from this contributed to the aesthetic discourse about post-representation, art after the trauma of the Holocaust. While my paintings and drawings themselves depict a liminal space, the beach or lido, indeed perhaps an uncanny space, what is important is that through the mediation of my material practice the paintings become themselves places between, an interstitial area, between past and present: arguably holding the potential for a postmemorial affect.
Education
Jan 1999-May 2002 Ph.D. Fine Art, studio practice. University of Leeds. Thesis title: Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation
1997-8 M.A. Fine Art. Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds
1993 Associate Graduate, Slade School, University College, London.
1978-81 B.A. Fine Art. Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. St Anne's College, Oxford University.
Current positions
2006 - present Senior Lecturer and Programme Manager BA Art and Design, University of Leeds,
2006 - 09 Visiting Research Fellow University of the West of England
2003 - 2006 AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
Selected Exhibitions : One Person Shows
2012 Abbey Walk Gallery, North Lincolnshire
2011 Katakomby Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Spectres on the Beach F Block Gallery, UWE, Bristol
2010 Postmemorial Landscapes, Armory Gallery, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
2008 Tense: Myles Meehan Arts Centre Darlington.
Evocations: Drumcroon Gallery, Lancashire.
2007 Resort viii Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, University of Bath.
2006 Resort vii Solo exhibition in the New Hall Art Collection, University of Cambridge
Resort vi 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, North Lincolnshire
Resort vi University of Leeds Gallery: Catalogue essay by Griselda Pollock
2005 Resort iv The Gallery, Gainsborough’s House October 2005
Resort iii Gallery 33, Swan Street, London
2004 Resort ii Gallery Oldham, invitation to be a solo exhibitor in main gallery. Curator: Peter Fox. Brochure, poster and catalogue essay by
Monica Bohm Duchen. 29th May – 31st July. www.galleryoldham.org.uk. Funded by Arts Council of England, Oldham Education
and Culture and European Regional Development Fund
2003 Resort Only Atelier, Argentinier Strasse, Vienna. www.Gabelika.tv (catalogue introduction by Iain Biggs published by Wild Pansy Press
ISBN 1 900687 15 1 September 2003.
2003 Judith Tucker Oriel Plas Glyn-y Weddw Gallery, Gwynnedd, Wales. 18th May - 10th June.www.oriel.org.uk. With Assistance from
Cyngor Gwynedd Council, partly funded by the European Regional Development Fund, The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and the Friends
of Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw.
2003 Caesura: the small series Gallery 33, Swan Street, London, March 3 –27. Private views 2nd and 27th March.
2002 Caesura Dean Clough, Halifax (catalogue) April 13th – June 30th. Private view
2002 Caesura 2 Mrua Gallery, co Clare, Eire. (catalogue) Private view.
2000 Crossing Mrua Gallery, co Clare, Eire. (catalogue introduction by Pauline Keena) Private view.
1999 Shift The Mary Ogilvie Gallery, St. Anne’s College, Oxford*
1997 Crossing Two Lands St Matthias Kolleg, Tunsdorf, Germany*
1996 Trevelyan College, Durham University*
Selected Exhibitions : Group Shows
2011 Space, Place and Spectral Trace BV Gallery, Bristol.
2010/11 The Nature of Landscape 2 Visions and Distillations of Landscape and Place Abbey Walk Gallery and Surface Gallery Nottingham
2010 At Sea Thegallery@360° trust Devon.
All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
2009 Revisiting the Beach Exlibris Gallery, Fine Art Department, Newcastle University
Fieldwork: an exhibition exploring concepts of place and landscape An Tobar Tobnermory, Mull.
2008 All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space, F Block Gallery, UWE, Bristol
Directions in Drawing, Brindley Gallery, Runcorn. Curator Louise Hesketh
Talkshow: LAF Group Show, Lounge Gallery, London
Painting Lives, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate. Curator Jane Sellars.
LAF Group Show, Lounge Gallery, London
Migratory Aesthetics University of Leeds Gallery. Curator Griselda Pollock
2004-5 LAN2D: Beyond Landscape? Co-curator of and contributor to the inaugural exhibition of LAN2D. Dean Clough Halifax Oct.- Jan.
Tour to Royal West of England Academy Bristol June/July 2005. Catalogue essay by Judith Tucker, Iain Biggs, Griselda Pollock & Keith Patrick.
2003-4 Bridges. A collaborative publication / exhibition project produced by members and associates of LAN2D and has exhibited at UWE Nov. 2003
and to be exhibited in University of Leeds and at Falmouth in 2004. Bridges was devised and edited by Iain Biggs, designed by iSophia and
published by Wild Conversations Press for LAN2D ISBN 1-902595-07-6.
2003 Triform, Keighley Arts Factory
2002 Dean Clough, Halifax, group exhibition.
1998 University of Newcastle Gallery, Australia
1996 Highly Commended Finalist in Bayer Earth Art Prize, London
1988 Finalist for Windsor and Newton Young Artists Award. London
Publications
2011/12 Tucker J. Spectres on the Beach: Concrete Remains, Ghost Rockets and Pleasure Cruises in Geography and Memory: Explorations in identity,
place and becoming eds Owain Jones and Joanne Garde-Hansen Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming
2011 Tucker J..On the Beach at Bornholm: Journal of Visual Art Practice 9(3): 267-272
2010 Tucker J. The Lido in the Forest: Painting, Memory and Subjectivity in Memory, Mourning and Landscape: Interdisciplinary Essays eds Elizabeth
Anderson, Avril Maddrell, Kate McLoughlin and Alana Vincent. Rodopi Press Amsterdam. Pp 191-216
2009 Tucker J. Belated Landscapes: A Second-Generation Aesthetic Practice in a British Context. Journal for the Study of British Cultures (JSBC) (Vol.
16, 1/2009, 41-55)
2007 Tucker J. Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation in Culture, Creativity and Environment: new environmentalist criticism. Eds Fiona Becket
and Terry Gifford, Rodopi Press Amsterdam. pp 197-211
Tucker J. Painting Places: A Postmemorial ‘Landscape’? in Migratory Aesthetics. Eds. Samuel Durrant and Catherine Lord. Rodopi Press
Amsterdam 59-80
2006 Tucker J. Resort: re/visiting, re/visioning, re/placing Journal of Visual Art Practice 5(1): 95–106
Awards
2003 - 2006 AHRC Research Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts
2002 - 2003 Yorkshire Arts research and development grant
2001 - 2002 University of Leeds research and exhibiting bursary
1999 - 2000 Bretton Hall research bursary for PhD study
1996 Recipient of a Northern Arts Grant
Conference Papers
2012 Between Spectral Traces and Concrete Reminders: a postmemorial landscape? (Keynote) at ‘Situating States of Mind’, Northumbria University,
Newcastle upon Tyne
2011 Spectral Traces at National University of Maynooth, Eire.
2010 Mapping Spectral Traces an international and interdisciplinary Humanities Symposium Virginia Tech USA.
Spectres on the Beach: Concrete Remains, Ghost Rockets and Pleasure Cruises at Exploring the Edge of Trauma The 7th Cultural Intersections
International Colloquium, presented by: Kingston University, UK and McMaster University, Ontario
The Nature of Landscape: distillations of landscape and place. Symposium Abbey Walk Gallery Lincolnshire.
On the Beach at Bornholm: tourists, soldiers artists at Spectral Traces a LAND2 symposium at University of Leeds
2009 Tense at UCL Urban Laboratory Seminar: Landscape and Memory. University College, London
Drawing the Uncanny (Keynote) at Revisiting the Beach University of Newcastle.
2008 Drawing Away: Unstable Relations at All Over the Place: Drawing Place, Drawing Space, UWE, Bristol
Memory Matters. Forgetting to Remember/Remembering to Forget’ Conference, University of Kent (September 2008)
The Lido in the Forest: Painting, Memory and Subjectivity at Memory, Mourning, and Landscape, University of Glasgow
2007 Present Tense: Drawing Close to Death. 8th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal University of Bath
Invited participant at Slip Frame a panel discussion on the space between frames, looking at digital and film frames, painting, memory and
affect at the APT Gallery, London, organised by London Metropolitan University.
Invited participant at (Re)placements Memory Matters organised by Space and Place University of Minnesota U.S.A.. Financially supported by the
University of Minnesota. U.S.A.
2006 Inside Out: Drawing the Domestic Uncanny. CongressCATH 2006 The Afterlife of Memory: Historia/Memoria/Amnesia (5 - 8 July, 2006, at the
University of Leeds, UK.)
2005 Here and There: Why Represent Landscape? invited keynote speaker at ‘Common Ground’ Rugby Art Gallery and Museum in association with the
University of Northampton and Landscape Research.
Invited speaker at Migratory Aesthetics organised by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) University of Amsterdam & Centre for Cultural
Analysis, Theory and History (Centre Cath) University of Leeds Financially Supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO),
2004 Painting Places: A Postmemorial ‘Landscape’? At Art After landscape: Memory, Place and Identity. Conference organised by University of the West of
England and University of Leeds. Proceedings published by Journal of Visual Arts Practice 2006.
Painting Places: A Postmemorial ‘Landscape’? At The Politics of Cultural Memory Manchester Metropolitan University
2003 ‘Painting and Postmemory’ at More Than a Change of Address. The conference of the Second Generation at the Weiner Library, London (Accepted)
2002 Inaugural seminar of LAN2D research network at University of the West of England Bristol (Invited)
‘Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation’ at Creativity, Culture, Environment, the biennial conference of the UK branch of the Association for the Study
of Literature and Environment. University of Leeds.
‘Painting as a Place to go Places’ at Internationalism and Arts of Cross-Culture, a conference in association with the journal The Cutting Edge,
Peterborough School of Art(s) and Leicester University held at the British Psychological Society, London. (Invited)
Research Funding
2003-2006 £131,000 for the AHRB Fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts. Research project title Painting and Postmemory: Re/visiting,
Re/visioning, Re/placing
2004 £4,700 from UWE, Bristol faculty research and £2000 AHRB Centre CATH for LAN2D research network activities.
2003 £600 Yorkshire Arts Research and Development Grant
2001 2002 University of Leeds research and exhibiting bursary
1999 2000 Bretton Hall research bursary
1996 Recipient of a Northern Arts Grant
Works in Permanent Collections
New Hall Collection of Womens' Art, Cambridge
New College, Oxford
St Matthias Kolleg, Germany
e-mail: j.a.tucker@leeds.ac.uk
websites: www.talkshow.org.uk/artist/show/Judith_Tucker
www.drumcroon.org.uk/evocations.html
www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/events/2006/0630/pollock.html
www.bath.ac.uk/icia/events/?page=event&art_form=Exhibitions&event_id=206
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