Dr Shirley Chubb
Emerita Reader in Interdisciplinary Art
About
Shirley Chubb is a practicing artist and researcher and was recently awarded the 2021 AUT Creative Physiotherapy Scholarship in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology. She began her career developing visual responses to heritage sites, archives and museum collections and her current research focuses on how visual art can manifest the significance of walking through particular environments and landscapes.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is held in the Arts Council England and other public and private collections. Catalogues documenting her work have attracted contributions from a range of associated fields including interdisciplinary studies, social history, arts discourse and ethnography. She was awarded a practice-based PhD by publication at the School of Arts & Communication, University of Brighton in 2007 and her work has been funded by ACE, the Wellcome Trust, the Arts & Humanities Research Board and the British Council.
Shirley was programme coordinator for the BA Hons and MA Fine Art programmes at the University of Chichester until 2019 where her interest in interdisciplinary learning and teaching involved the development of creative research projects with the University of Brighton, St Richards Hospital Chichester Festival Theatre, the Novium, Pallant House Gallery and Outside In.
Professional
2021 AUT Creative Physiotherapy Scholarship in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at Auckland University of Technology
2019-22 Honorary Fellow in the School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton
2016 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts
2012 Wellcome Trust Small Arts Award
2011 Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts
2003 Arts & Humanities Research Board Small Grant in the Creative & Performing Arts
2003 Arts Council England National Touring Programme Funding
2001 West Midlands Arts, Regional Lottery Programme
1996 British Council Visual Arts Grant
1993 South East Arts Major Award to a Visual Artist
1992 Sir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust Prize
1991 British Council ‘Grants to Artists’ Scheme
Key Publications
2021 Chubb, S. Bryant, N., Moore, A. and Saber-Sheikh, K. The Significant Walks Project: Aesthetic Articulations of Walking, Data and Place. CURARE 42(2019)3+4: “Aesthetics of Healing: Working with the Senses in Therapeutic Contexts”. Under Peer Review
2021 Chubb, S. Bryant, N., Moore, A. and Saber-Sheikh, K. Significant Walks: synthesizing qualitative and quantitative reflections on movement and place. In Grønseth, A. & Skinner, J. in Mobilities of Wellbeing: Migration, the State, and Medical Knowledge. Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology, Carolina Academic Press https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531020316/Mobilities-of-Wellbeing
2017 Chubb, S. One Hour : Visual Practice Exploring a Collective History. In: Mieves, C. & Brown I. (eds.) Wonder In Contemporary Artistic Practice. London: Routledge, pp 36-54.
2016 Marsh,P., Chubb, S., Hooker, C., Moore, A. and Saber-Sheikh, K. A Gadamerian approach to interpreting pain: model-making metaphors through embodied cognitive theory. Digital Creativity, 27 (4). Pp. 347-357. ISSN 1462-6268. ‡ Co-produced with post-graduate research students
2016 Chubb, S., Bryant, N., Moore, A. and Saber-Sheikh, K.”Significant Walks” : Visualising Well-Being, Articulations of the Data and Experience of Chronic Low Back Pain. In: Well Being 2016, Third International Conference, Birmingham City University
2014 Chubb, S. Shirley Chubb In: Inspired by: your guide to art and the museum. Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, pp. 23-29. ISBN 9780993014208
2014 Significant Walks Chubb, S., Bryant, N., Moore, A.P., Saber-Sheikh, K. (2014) Selected Essays from the On Walking Conference (2013) Heather H. Yeung (ed.) with the assistance of Mike Collier. Sunderland: Arts Editions North and the University of Sunderland ISBN: 978-1-906832-18-6 (e-book)
Exhibitions & Research
2016-17 Drawing Insight, Pallant House Gallery (3-26.03.17) & Regency Town House (16-24.09.17). Project lead on ACE funded collaborative partnership between UoC Alumni & Outside In Community Programme at Pallant House Gallery
2016 Significant Walks : Conference exhibition display. International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists, Glasgow (04-08.07.16).
2015 Narrative Cloth, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum.
2014-16 Significant Walks : Project lead on Wellcome Trust funded collaborative research project with the Clinical Research Centre for Health Professions, University of Brighton. . Exhibition. Otter Gallery, University of Chichester (21.11.14–17.01.15)
2014 Pen Rest commissioned by ACE & Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery as part of the Shrewsbury Museum redevelopment project.
Research
Shirley Chubb is internationally recognised for her contribution to broadening the reach, impact and collaborative potential of the visual arts via qualitative research involving artefacts, film and digital technologies. Her work has included collaboration with a range of professionals and experts working in the fields of heritage and, more recently, the health sciences. Her interdisciplinary research projects are recognised as contributing to knowledge and understanding within the museum and heritage sectors whilst also addressing the growing significance of wellbeing agendas in relation to cultural identity and sense of place.
Shirley was Principal Investigator on the Wellcome Trust funded Significant Walks project, devising and managing methodology development and the application and dissemination of outcomes within an ongoing variety of research contexts. Her work has been published in a range of catalogues and publications related to museum studies, anthropology and arts and health.
PhD Supervision
Shirley is currently supervising a range of interdisciplinary PhDs including the following study titles:
- Home to Home: Peregrination as a method of inquiry in the realisation of an art installation (Andrea Vassallo)
- A Feminist Methodological Enquiry into the Materiality of Abstract Painting (Michelle Spencer)
- Internal/external landscape dialogues in site -responsive choreographic compositional practices; an investigation of a creative process (Virginia Farman)
- Lighting and Lit: Towards a Sceno-Choreographic approach to Digital Lighting Practice (Natalie Rowland)
- Crafting Connections: Interdisciplinary approaches to Dance-Pottery Performance making (Vidya Thirunaryan)
Research Output
Articles
Marsh, P., Chubb, S., Hooker, C., Moore, A. and Saber-Sheikh, K. (2016) A Gadamerian approach to interpreting pain: model-making metaphors through embodied cognitive theory. Digital Creativity, 27 (4). pp. 347-357. ISSN 1462-6268 10.1080/14626268.2016.1250782
Book Sections
Chubb, S. (2017) One Hour - Visual Practice Exploring a Collective History. In: Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice. Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies . Routledge, London, pp. 36-54. ISBN 9781138855816 LCCN 2016029525
Chubb, S. (2014) Pen Rest. In: Inspired by: your guide to art and the museum. Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, pp. 23-29. ISBN 9780993014208
Chubb, S., Barnes, A. J., Binnie, J., Petrov, J. and Walklate, J. (2011) Location and intervention: Visual practice enabling a synchronic view of artefacts and sites. In: The Thing About Museums: Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 199-213. ISBN 9780415679046
Conference or Workshop Items
Chubb, S., Bryant, N., Moore, A. and Saber-Sheikh, K. (2016) Significant Walks: Synthesizing Qualitative and Quantitative Reflections on Movement and Place. In: American Anthropological Association - Evidence Accident Discovery - 115th Annual Meeting, 16th - 20th November 2016, Minneapolis Convention Centre. (Unpublished)
Chubb, S., Bryant, N., Moore, A. and Saber-Sheikh, K. (2016) "Significant Walks" : Visualising Well-Being, Articulations of the Data and Experience of Chronic Low Back Pain. In: Well Being 2016, Third International Conference, 5th-6th September 2016, Birmingham City University.
Chubb, S., Bryant, N., Moore, A. and Saber-Sheikh, K. (2014) Significant Walks. In: On Walking - An International, multidisciplinary conference, 26th - 29th June 2013, University of Sunderland.
Books
Allen, H., Chubb, S., Dickinson, R., Majerus, M., Rielly, J., Sekules, V. and Tickle, L. (1997) Collections and Reflections: The Transformative and Assimilative Uses of Art Objects. Arts Council of England, London, UK. ISBN 9780728707382
Shows/Exhibitions
Chubb, S. (2012) Change (1991). [Shows/Exhibitions]
Chubb, S. (2011) One Hour. [Shows/Exhibitions]
Chubb, S. (2011) One Minute. [Shows/Exhibitions]
Videos
Chubb, S. (2017) Significant Walks Video. [Videos] (Submitted)
