Dr Gill Park

Profile

My research interests focus on feminist interventions in art and curating since the 1970s. My doctoral project researched the transformation of British photography by the women’s movement, exploring the way in which feminist artists took up photography during the 1980s as a tool for addressing both the lived experiences and theoretical analysis of women’s oppression. I am particularly interested in artistic representations of domestic work and gender-based violence as well as how art, and art’s infrastructures, can support feminist activism. My current research focuses on artistic engagements with women who migrate for work, with a specific focus on the labour of women head-porters in Ghana.

I was appointed in 2018, having previously worked as a lecturer at the University of Manchester and Newcastle University. Prior to working in academia I was Director of Pavilion, a contemporary arts organisation established in 1983 by fine art graduates from Leeds, as the UK’s first centre for feminist art and exhibition-making.

Outside of the university I am a relief worker for Leeds Domestic Violence Service.

Responsibilities

• Director of Student Education

Qualifications

• PhD History of Art & Curating
• MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies
• BA History of Art

Professional memberships

• Association for Art History

Student education

My teaching addresses contemporary art and exhibition histories across BA and MA level, with a particular focus on History of Art at undergraduate level and Art Gallery and Museum Studies at postgraduate level.

Current postgraduate researchers

• Tom Vickery