Juliet MacDonald
Leeds
I am an artist and researcher whose work explores historical topics with present day relevance.
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My practice centres on drawing and extends into related fields such as painting, moving image and installation. My PhD, completed in 2010, was practice based. I researched my own practice of observational drawing. Other types of drawing and diagramming were used as methods. Currently, my work is motivated by questions about, for example: bodies and embodiment; human/animal distinctions; the history of animal experimentation; bodily experience in the First World War; how artists can use archives. My work has drawn on historical sources. For the project and residency Alpha #4: Scheme for a Drawing Experiment (2012), I collected psychology books from the first half of the twentieth century in order to retrace the story of a chimpanzee bred for experimental purposes. In 2014/15, I was again working with archive material as Leverhulme Artist in Residence with the Liddle Collection, a collection of First World War letters, photographs and personal papers, at the University of Leeds. Profile photograph credit: MEANTIME, Cheltenham.
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