Research Associates are Courtauld postgraduate students appointed to specific collection-based projects in the Courtauld libraries, archive and Gallery. Research Associates are appointed in December for a year. Between two and five Associates are appointed to each project, to form a team investigating a topic or theme chosen to explore and to interpret the collection. They work under the supervision of collection curators and / or academic staff members. The Research Associates present the result of their investigation at two workshop sessions.

 

The 2012 Research Associates are:

 

Cleo Nisse (MA Conservation of Easel Paintings)

Francesca Whitlum-Cooper (PhD candidate, History of Art)

Alysia Sawicka (MA Conservation of Easel Paintings)

Stefanie Lenk (MA Curating the Art Museum)

 

Contributing to the continuing Courtauld Collections theme, the 2012 Research Associates Project is entitled Conservation and Art Historical Analysis: Works from The Courtauld Gallery. It comprises a collaborative investigation, from technical and art-historical standpoints, into two paintings from the Courtauld Collection: a Portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, currently attributed to Gainsborough Dupont and André Derain’s. Trees by a Lake, le Parc de Carrières-St-Denis. The 2012 project is co-ordinated by Dr Aviva Burnstock (Head of Conservation), Dr Caroline Campbell (Schroder Foundation Curator of Paintings, The Courtauld Gallery) and Professor Caroline Arscott (Head of Research).