Advisory Panel
The Art+Archaeology Advisory Panel help with the direction and ongoing development of the Art+Archaeology project. Panel members include:
Paul Bonaventura
Paul Bonaventura is the senior research fellow in fine art studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art and special lecturer in fine art at Magdalen College, Oxford. He studied history of art at the University of Reading and Courtauld Institute of Art and trained as an exhibition organiser at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford before taking up the position of senior exhibitions coordinator at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London in 1987. He moved to the University of Oxford in 1994.
Recently, Paul has been the artistic advisor to the UK Pavilion at Aichi Expo in Japan, a judge on the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards, a specialist advisor to the Scottish Arts Council, a visiting scholar at the New York Academy of Art, an editorial board member for The Art Book, and a selector for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and the Great North Run Moving Image Commission. He is currently a director of Film and Video Umbrella and a trustee of Camden Arts Centre in London.
Dr David Prince
Dr David Prince has worked extensively with museums and related organisations on business planning, evaluation and market appraisal in all sectors of the economy. He has led and worked extensively with multi-disciplinary teams on projects valued from a few thousand to over £2 billion. In 1983 he formed Prince Research Consultants Ltd. Through PRC he is an adviser to both the Arts Council of England and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
David lectures widely on marketing and business planning, and is a Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Birmingham and Gothenburg. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. His specialisations include business planning, new-project concept origination and development, branding, audience appraisals, research strategy formulation and market research. He is also Chairman of the Caroline Humby-Teck Trust, a charity whose objectives are the preservation and interpretation of the British Landscape.
Kim Evans OBE
Kim Evans OBE is an arts consultant working with a wide range of artists and arts organisations. She worked in broadcasting for 20 years, first as a producer/director with London Weekend Television and then moving to the BBC where she won a BAFTA for her film Angela Carter’s Curious Room. She was Head of Music and Arts at the BBC from 1993-1999.
She then joined Arts Council England where she was Executive Director, Arts until 2006.
She has a particular interest in cross-disciplinary work and international collaboration. Currently, she serves as a Trustee of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Chelsea & Westminster Health Charity and as a Board member of London Artists Projects. She is a member of Artangel’s Company of Angels. In 2007, she received an OBE for Services to the Arts.
She is a member of Artangel’s Company of Angels. In 2007, she received an OBE for Services to the Arts.
Tania Kovats
Tania Kovats is a British artist whose primarily sculptural practice is an exploration of landscape. She has exhibited widely both here and abroad and her sculptures are in many public and private collections. Since being appointed the Henry Moore Drawing Fellow in Bristol in 2004 she has become increasingly interested in drawing as an extension of her sculptural activities. In 2005 she published The Drawing Book. A survey of drawing: the primary means of expression, which presented her personal exploration of the form. Most recently Tania’s drawings have been shown in the Hayward Gallery’s touring exhibition You’ll Never Know. Drawing and Random Interference and International Waters at Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco. Her response to the White Horse at Uffington sits on the intersection of her interests in drawing and landscape.
Tania has made many works in the public realm, including MEADOW in 2006 in which she transported a wild flowering meadow from Bath to London on a working canal boat via the inland waterways of central southern England. She curated the exhibition LOST at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in 2001 and is currently working on a number of publications. Tania is currently completing a period in residence at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
Biography from http://www.museumofthewhitehorse.org.uk/
Professor Julian Thomas
Professor Julian Thomas holds a Chair of Archaeology at University of Manchester. He is a Vice President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, a life member of the Collingwood Society, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Between 1994 and 1999, he was the Secretary of the World Archaeological Congress.
Julian’s main research interests are concerned with the Neolithic period in Britain and north-west Europe, and with the theory and philosophy of archaeology. His major preoccupation throughout his career has been with finding ways of understanding prehistoric societies which confront the prejudices and assumptions of the contemporary west. Throughout his career, Julian has been involved in field archaeology. He was director of a collaborative project with Historic Scotland, concerned with the investigation of a series of prehistoric monuments in Dumfries and Galloway. More recently, he has become one of the directors of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, together with Mike Parker Pearson (Sheffield), Joshua Pollard (Bristol), Colin Richards (Manchester), Chris Tilley (UCL) and Kate Welham (Bournemouth). He has recently published a study of the relationship between archaeology and modernity, which explores the connections between archaeological knowledge and the modern condition.