| 1971 |
Gained BA Hons, 2(i)* in Fine Art from University of Leeds |
| 1971/4 |
Postgraduate research |
| 1987 |
Awarded M.Phil, University of Leeds, for work on the Perspective systems of Renaissance Art |
| 1971/77 |
Part-time Lecturer in History of Art, University of Leeds |
| 1978/82 |
Part-time Lecturer in History of Art, Harrogate College of Art |
| 1975/97 |
Associate Lecturer in History of Art, Open University Course Tutor, Renaissance and Modern Art Courses, Specialist Art History Tutor, Art Foundation Course, Research Projects tutor, Arts of the 20thCentury |
| 1993/4 |
Part time Lecturer in History of Art at NEWI, Wrexham |
| Since 1995 |
Lecturer in Continuing Education, University of Liverpool involving long and short term courses in the History of Art and Day Schools at venues such as Tate Liverpool, The Lady Lever gallery and The Walker. Courses have been taught on such subjects as Symbolism in Western Art; Women in Art; Image, Myth and Text; The Victorians at Lady lever; The Bloomsbury Group; Reading Landscape |
| Since 2001 |
Lecturer in Lifelong Learning, University of Bradford involving Day Schools on selected topics within the History of Art |
| Since 1996 |
Fractional Lecturer, Contextual Studies, Liverpool Art School, Liverpool John Moores University |
| 1997/8 |
Additional part-time lecturing work as part of LJMU team at LIPA |
| Jan 1998/July 2005 |
Lecturer, History of Art, University of Liverpool |
| Since May 1998 |
Occasional delivery of training sessions on Art History to Information Assistants at Tate Liverpool |
| Sept 2004 |
Training Day School for gallery staff at Oriel Inys Mon, Anglesey | |
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Wide-ranging work within the History of Art covering all periods, but predominantly Modernism and PostModernism. This has included lectures, seminars and workshops to undergraduates from Liverpool University and LJMU in Tate Liverpool, and The Walker (amongst other venues) covering issues such as museology, practice and theory, generic traditions, the role of women, cultural appropriation and multiculturalism etc..
Recent work with CAIR (Centre for Art International Research) based at Liverpool J.M. University and SHISHA (The International Agency for Contemporary South Asian Crafts and Visual Arts) based in Manchester which has involved conferences and publications on cultural exchange and cross-references.
Since 2001 - Involvement with the ‘Friends’ of the Atkinson Gallery, Southport, serving as a committee member.
2002/4 Vice chairman of the ‘Friends’
2004/7 Chairman Publications
Contributions to an Encyclopedia of Art, published by Elsevier in 1974
Co- Editor of, and contributor to Reflections, publishedby SHISHA,2004
Co- Editor of, and contributor to Richard Creed - Living in a Sea Shell, published by Liverpool School of Art and Design, 2004
Co- Editor of, and contributor to J.Chuhan – The Body Inside, 2006
Currently researching a History of the Atkinson Gallery, Southport, to be published in 2009/10
Biog.
Sheila Maddison trained as a practitioner and Art Historian. She has worked in many academic Institutions, teaching on a variety of subjects and courses. She Teaches History of Art and Museum Studies at LJMU on all three levels of the degree course. Her level I HAMS module is delivered at Tate Liverpool and is open to the public. She is currently mentor to 2 MRes students, and is 3rd supervisor to a PhD student.
Her interests in art are diverse, covering Renaissance Studies, Issues of Gender, Modernist and Postmodernist practice, aspects of 19th Century practice, and cultural appropriation and transfer. She is currently working on a history of the Atkinson Gallery in Southport. |
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