Pennina Barnett
Pennina Barnett is a London-based freelance writer and scholar in contemporary visual culture, with an expertise in contemporary textiles. Much of her work focuses on cloth, memory, and materiality, as well as feminist concerns. Current projects include cloth and repair as metaphors within contemporary art practice. Another key area of her research is the work of Tehran-born artist Chohreh Feyzdjou (1955-1996).
She is Founding Co-Editor (together with Janis Jefferies) of the international peer-review journal Textile: Cloth and Culture, (Taylor and Francis Group, UK), and has contributed to many academic journals including Textile, Third Text, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, ACT, Women: A Cultural Review; Issues in Architecture, Art and Design. A selection of her essays can be found on academia.edu
In 2017 she contributed presentations to the WTA (World Textile Arts) VII Biennial symposium, Montevideo, Uruguay and to the Design Sector of the National Ministry of Culture, Buenos Aires; and in 2018 was keynote speaker for Bummock: The Lace Archive symposium, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK, organised by Nottingham Trent University.
In 2013 she co-curated THE SUBVERSIVE STITCH REVISITED: THE POLITICS OF CLOTH with Dr. Jennifer Harris, then Deputy Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and Dr. Althea Greenan, Special Collections Curator at the Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths College, University of London. This two day international symposium was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Podcasts of all presentations and further resources are available online via the Women's Art Library at Goldsmiths, University of London: http://www.gold.ac.uk/subversivestitchrevisited/
Her earlier curatorial projects include Craft Matters:three attitudes to contemporary craft (John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 1985,co-curated with Christopher Reed and Tanya Harrod);The Subversive Stitch: Women and Textiles Today (Cornerhouse, Manchester 1988/1989,together with Bev Bytheway);Under Construction (Crafts Council, London 1995, co-curated Pamela Johnson); and Textures of Memory: the poetics of cloth (Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery, London / Angel Row, Nottingham 1999/ 2000, also co-curated with Pamela Johnson). All were UK touring exhibitions.
As Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 1989 - 2011, she taught on undergraduate Fine Art and Textiles, MA and PhD programmes and was responsible for the Critical Studies component of the BA Textiles. She has also run reading groups for Fashion and Textiles Research students at the Royal College of Art, London.
Earlier in her career she worked as a TV researcher at Yorkshire Television in Leeds, as an arts administrator at Yorkshire Arts Association in Bradford (focusing on contemporary craft), and freelance exhibition curator.
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