Prof Catherine Moriarty

Prof Catherine Moriarty



**From Brighton Website, where there are links to her latest work - http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/catherine-moriarty


Professor Catherine Moriarty is Curatorial Director of the University of Brighton Design Archives.

Her work engages with issues that lie at the heart of current research in the humanities – cultural memory, inter-textuality, visual and material culture, particularly sculpture, and the research potential of digital content.

C.Moriarty@brighton.ac.uk

Scholarly biography and interests
Professor Catherine Moriarty is Curatorial Director of the University of Brighton Design Archives and Professor of Art and Design History in the College of Arts and Humanities.
Integral to Moriarty’s development of the University of Brighton Design Archives is her conviction in curation as a creative practice. Initiating artists’ residencies, exhibitions, and research projects of different kinds, she is interested in the archive as a site of inquiry.
Recognised as an important locus for the study of design internationally, the Design Archives and the work of its team was endorsed by HEFCE in 2010 with a significant funding award from the Museums, Galleries and Collections Fund. The Design Archives is one of only 31 university museums nationally to receive funding from this source. 
Moriarty has directed a variety of projects, most recently Exploring British Design in 2014/15, an AHRC-funded collaboration with the Archives Hub. She has written on the history of the Design Council’s photographic holdings, and on the relationship between sculpture and design. In 2007 she curated an exhibition on the work of the designer and sculptor Bernard Schottlander with the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds and, in 2013, an exhibition about Barbara Jones with the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Her professorial lecture, took place in October 2014, entitled Curating the Past: the monument, the archive and the database.
Moriarty led a major Leverhulme funded research project, the National Inventory of War Memorials, at the Imperial War Museum between 1989 and 1996. Completing her DPhil at the University of Sussex in 1995, her publications on commemoration and figurative sculpture after the First World War are recognised as key sources in the scholarship of cultural memory and conflict. Her monograph on the sculptor Gilbert Ledward (1888-1960) was published in 2003, she contributed to the Tate Gallery/Yale University Press History of British Art in 2008, and in 2011 she contributed an essay to the book accompanying the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition ‘Modern British Sculpture’. In 2014 she became co-editor of the Sculpture Journal, along with Peter Dent and Jon Wood.
In 2004 Moriarty was awarded an Australian Bicentennial Fellowship by the Menzies Centre, King’s College, London and a British Academy research grant. In 2005 she was a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre and in 2007 she curated an exhibition for the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. In 2008 she was awarded the prestigious University of Melbourne Macgeorge Fellowship. The culmination of this research, the book Making Melbourne’s Monuments: the Sculpture of Paul Montford, was published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2013 with support from the Paul Mellon Centre.

Moriarty was a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council Peer Review College 2004-11, and she holds various other appointments. In 2010 and 2011 she won funding for two AHRC collaborative doctoral projects, one with the Chartered Society of Designers and the other with the Design Museum. Further details of her doctoral students are listed below.

Moriarty has devised a wide variety of exhibition projects, and projects with artists, that unpick and open-out some of the themes outlined above. Working collaboratively – with other scholars, artists, and curators and with different kinds of organisations and institutions - she believes passionately in the particular energy that characterises research undertaken in creative environments be they schools of art, national museums or independent arts organisations.



Catherine Moriarty on The Genius of Design – YouTube –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMtghAx03KQ

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