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Profiles
Ms Mary Costello
Peninsula Arts Exhibition Co-ordinator
The Arts Institute (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)
Biography
Biography
Exhibitions Co-ordinator, The Arts Institute
Associate Lecturer, Art History
Qualifications
BA (First Class Hons) Art History with Gallery and Museum Studies, University of Plymouth
MRes Art History (Distinction), University of Plymouth
MRes Art History (Distinction), University of Plymouth
First Aider, Fire Marshall, Mental Health First Aider
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
Currently teaching UoP modules 2023/2024:
ARH5004/ARHI623: Decolonizing Modernism: Art 1890-1940
ARHI605: Dissertation 1: Theories and Methods
ARHI608: Dissertation 2
ARHI616 Working with Culture: Professional Development Project
Past UoP Modules taught:
ARHI113/125: Introduction to Art History
ARHI114: Continuity and Change
ARHI123: Museum Fieldwork (I)
ARHI126/407: Late 19th-Century French Art / Modernity and Modernisms
ANTH406: Humans, Art, Design & Objects
ARHI412: Image of the Artist
ARHI217/512/617: Art and Gender
ARHI230/330: European Art 1750-1800
ARHI232/335/504/611: The Interdisciplinary City
ARHI237/341: Collecting and Exhibiting Cultures in the 19th and 20th Centuries
ARHI306: Dissertation 2
ARHI315: Theories and Methods
ARHI510/612: Art After 1950
ARHI114: Continuity and Change
ARHI123: Museum Fieldwork (I)
ARHI126/407: Late 19th-Century French Art / Modernity and Modernisms
ANTH406: Humans, Art, Design & Objects
ARHI412: Image of the Artist
ARHI217/512/617: Art and Gender
ARHI230/330: European Art 1750-1800
ARHI232/335/504/611: The Interdisciplinary City
ARHI237/341: Collecting and Exhibiting Cultures in the 19th and 20th Centuries
ARHI306: Dissertation 2
ARHI315: Theories and Methods
ARHI510/612: Art After 1950
Research
Research
Research interests
Viennese Modernism, the reception and display of non-Western culture in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Museums and Ethnography, Curating.
Grants & contracts
AHRC funding postgraduate research: 2008-2009; 2009-2011
Creative practice & artistic projects
As Exhibitions Co-ordinator for The Arts Institute since 2012, I have been involved in the curation and delivery of a number of high-profile national and international exhibitions. View the archive of past exhibitions or view current exhibitions. Recent personal highlights include working on British Art Show 9, and Otherworlds: Marianne Walker and Sang-Mi Rha.
Publications
Publications
Chapters
'Artist Biographies' in Blackshaw, G (ed.), Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900, London: National Gallery Company in association with Yale University Press, 2013
'Adolf Loos’s Kärntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction', in Ashby, C., T. Gronberg and S. Shaw-Miller (eds), The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture, London: Berghahn Books, 2013, pp.138-157
'Adolf Loos’s Kärntner Bar: Reception, Reinvention, Reproduction', in Ashby, C., T. Gronberg and S. Shaw-Miller (eds), The Viennese Café and Fin-de-siècle Culture, London: Berghahn Books, 2013, pp.138-157
Personal
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
Conference Paper:
'An alternative to the café: the Loos Bar (1908) and its reproduction in Trinity College, Dublin (1986)', at The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange, V&A and RCA, 17-18 October 2008
Invited Lectures:
'Re-imagining the American Bar', RIBA, 29 March 2011
'The Arts Institute and its role in the cultural life of University of Plymouth and beyond', PATIO of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland, 10 January 2024
Other academic activities
Exhibitions Co-ordinator, The Levinsky Gallery (full time) and Associate Lecturer (Art History ) part time
Links
THE VIENNESE CAFÉ AND FIN-DE-SIÈCLE CULTURE, Berghahn Books