Fiona Candlin – fieldwork as practice and cataloguing distinctness

<p>Fiona is Professor of Museology in the History of Art department at Birkbeck, University of London. She did her PhD at Keele University between 1993 and 1998; it was called “Artwork and the boundaries of academia”. Fiona’s was one of the first art practice as research (or theory/practice) doctorates in the UK and she admits to finding the whole process a very difficult experience because of this. Her grounding was a degree in fine art from Leeds where social and feminist history informed her studies, a Masters in critical theory at Sussex, and years of working in Tate Liverpool organising educational art programmes.</p> <p>Fiona regards all aspects of research as practice, from reading to fieldwork, and from analysis to writing-up. Her latest small museums investigation is a case in point, and she describes driving around the country in a camper van, dropping in for conversations with museum owners/curators, the re-iterative nature of classification modelling, and developing a database through working with computer scientists.</p> <p>Links:</p> <p><a href="https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8005280/fiona-candlin">https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8005280/fiona-candlin</a></p> <p><a href="https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/browseproperties">https://museweb.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/browseproperties</a></p> <p>Plus, Fiona's video of the final days of the Bakelite Museum in Somerset in 2018 can be viewed here: <a href="https://vimeo.com/375988349">https://vimeo.com/375988349</a></p>