Dr Jim harris

Caroline Villers Research Fellow

Visiting Lecturer

PhD (Courtauld, University of London)

 

  

Jim Harris came to the Courtauld to take a BA in 2001, after a career as an actor and musician.  His BA was followed by an MA, for which his dissertation examined a group of Genoese monochrome paintings, and then a PhD on Donatello's polychromed sculpture, supervised by Professor Patricia Rubin and completed in 2010 .  His work on polychromy has also served as the stepping off point for broader research interests in sculptural materials and techniques, traumatic events and the meaning and function of sculpture, and in the relationship between theology, devotional practice and the making of objects.

Jim was Editor of immediations, the Courtauld Institute Journal of Postgraduate Research, in 2008 and 2009 and is a member of the Sculptural Processes Study Group and the Material Life of Things project, developed and led by his predecessor as Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Francesco Lucchini. He has published on Florentine painting, Northern polychromed sculpture ( for the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota), Andre Beauneveu and on contemporary painting and drawing.

 

In late 2011 and early 2012 Jim is organising a series of Research Forum workshops under the heading Three Approaches to Three Dimensions: Reconfigured Spaces/Relocated Objects/Rewritten Narratives.  These events will be concerned with the impact of change and movement on the meaning and function, display and understanding of three-dimensional objects.  They will be followed in May 2012 by a conference at the Courtauld entitled, Moving in Three Dimensions: Re-writing the Objects and Histories of Sculpture.

 

In 2012, Jim will take up the Caroline Villers Research Fellowship in Conservation.

More details of Jim's research.

Contact details

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Somerset House

Strand

London WC2R 0RN

jim.harris@courtauld.ac.uk

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