Prof Sandy Heslop
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Professor of Visual Arts |
T dot Heslop at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 3644 |
Sainsbury Centre 0.26 |
Biography
Professor Sandy Heslop, who joined the School in 1976, is an expert on the art and architecture of medieval England. His overarching interest is in making and its place in human culture. Humans use objects of all kinds (natural and manufactured) for practical purposes but also to structure our understanding and our identities. Most of Heslop’s research and teaching has focused on analyzing the relationship between people and things, and the role of imagination in the creation and reception of artefacts.
Career
B.A. History of Art; Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1971)
Key Research Interests
The relationship of art and history
The impact of environment and resources on manufacture
Art as information and rhetoric
Architecture as image
Current Research Projects
1. Beyond the Basket
Principal Investigator for ‘Beyond the Basket’, an AHRC-funded research project to explore the place of basketry in human culture. Basketry has a long history and global distribution. It has been fundamental to the success of the species in adapting to and managing different environments. The principal outcomes will be an edited book and a major exhibition.
2. Medieval art and belief in Norfolk
Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded exhibition project ‘Icon? Art and Belief in Norfolk’, researching the place of medieval art in the structure of personal and institutional religion.
3. Worchester Chapter House and other projects
Work in progress includes a study and reconstruction of Worcester Chapter House, and a book on art and architecture in England c. 960-1120.
Past Research Projects and Grants
| Project Title | Start Date | End Date | Funding Body | Project Members |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icon? Art and Belief in Norfolk | 1/2/2009 | 31/1/2011 | Arts and Humanities Research Council | Margit Thofner, Sandy Heslop |
| A Virtual Recreation of Worcester Cathedral Chapter House, c.1100 | 1/1/2006 | 31/1/2007 | British Academy | Sandy Heslop, Andy Day |
| The corpus of Romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland | 1/4/2003 | 30/6/2006 | Arts and Humanities Research Council | N/A |
Teaching Interests
- Medieval art and architecture
- The anthropology of art
- Art and environments
Research supervision
Interested in supervising research students in all aspects of medieval art and architecture.
Mills, Rosie Chambers. Gendered imaginations? Illustrating the high medieval psalter for men and women in England. 2008
Sillence, Matthew James. The cardinal’s seal of dignity and the representation of identities, 1378-1533. 2009
Arber, Nicholas John. The Norfolk County Gaol 1764-1887: a good and sufficient prison. 2009
Partridge, Jo. Representations and transformations of Synagoga in Latin Christendom c.1050-1250. 2010
Pinner, Rebecca. St Edmund, King and Martyr: constructing his cult in medieval East Anglia. 2010
Summers, Dominic John. Norfolk Church Towers of the Later Middle Ages. 2011
Helen Lunnon, Norfolk Church Porches. 2012
Current researchers and their topics include:
Nick Trend, Wighton, the Church and the Village, 1400-1500
Agata Gomolka, Physiognomy, Pathognomy and Body Rhetoric in Early Gothic Sculpture.
Examples of modules taught
- Visual and the Verbal in Medieval Culture
- The Art and Architecture of Venice
- Researching and Interpreting Artefacts (Core module, MA World Art)
Article
Heslop, T A (2009) Regarding the Spectators of the Bayeux Tapestry: Bishop Odo and his Circle. Art History, 32 (2). pp. 222-249.
Heslop, T A (2005) The English origins of the Coronation of the Virgin. Burlington Magazine, 147 (1233). pp. 790-797.
Book Section
Heslop, T.A (2012) The Alabaster Tomb at Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk: its Workmanship, Cost and Location. In: Patrons and Professionals in the Middle Ages. Harlaxton Medieval Studies vol.XXII . Donington, pp. 333-346.
Heslop, T.A (2012) Constantine and Helena: the Roman in English Romanesque. In: Architecture and Interpretation: Essays for Eric Fernie. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, pp. 163-175.
Stevenson, Christine and Heslop, T.A (2012) Introduction. In: Architecture and Interpretation: Essays for Eric Fernie. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, pp. 1-14.
Heslop, T.A (2011) St Anselm, Church Reform and the Politics of Art. In: Anglo-Norman Studies, Proceedings of the Battle Conference for 2010. Woodbridge, pp. 103-126.
Heslop, T.A (2011) The Nave of Attleborough, Norfolk, and the Architecture of Unknowing. In: Architecture, Liturgy and Identity. Liber Amicorum Paul Crossley. Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 47-60.
Heslop, T A (2010) Attending at Calvary: An early fifteenth-century English Panel Painting. In: Tributes to Nigel Morgan. Contexts of Medieval Art: Images, Objects and Ideas. Harvey Miller/Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 278-292. ISBN 9781905375295
Heslop, T.A (2010) Les monastères clunisiens anglais et leurs sceaux: vers 1090-1120. In: Cluny: onze siècles de rayonnement. Centre des monuments nationaux, pp. 380-387.
Heslop, T A (2008) The Implication of the Utrecht Psalter in English Romanesque Art. In: Romanesque: Art & Thought in the Twelfth Century, Essays in Honor of Walter Cahn. Occasional Papers of the Index of Christian Art (10). Penn State University Press, Princeton, pp. 267-290. ISBN 0976820269
Heslop, T A (2007) Manuscript Illumination at Worcester c. 1055-65: the origins of the Pembroke Lectionary and the Caligula Troper. In: The Cambridge Illuminations: The Conference Proceedings. Harvey Miller, London, pp. 65-75. ISBN 150432565
Heslop, T A (2005) Swaffham Parish Church: Community Building in Fifteenth Century Norfolk. In: Medieval East Anglia. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, pp. 246-271. ISBN 1843831511
Heslop, T A (2004) Art and the Man: Archbishop Wulfstan and the York Gospelbook. In: Wulfstan Archbishop of York: The Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference (Studies in the Early Middle Ages). Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 293-322. ISBN 2503522246
Heslop, T.A (2002) Weeting Castle, a Twelfth-Century Hall-House in Norfolk (reprinted). In: La Maison médiévale en Normandie et Angleterre, Actes des tables rondes de Rouen et de Norwich (1998-99). Rouen, pp. 131-141.
Heslop, T A (2001) Worcester Cathedral Chapterhouse and the Harmony of the Testaments. In: New Offerings, Ancient Treasures. Studies in Medieval Art presented to George Henderson. Alan Sutton, Stroud, pp. 280-311. ISBN 0750915714
Heslop, T A (2001) Contemplating Chimera in Medieval Imagination: St. Anselm's Crypt at Canterbury. In: Raising the Eyebrow: John Onians and World Art Studies. An Album Amicorum in his honour. BAR International Series (996). Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 153-168. ISBN 1841712779
Heslop, T.A (2000) Weeting Castle, a Twelfth-Century Hall-House in Norfolk. In: Architectural HIstory. Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, pp. 42-57.
Heslop, T.A (2000) Art, Nature and St Hugh's Choir at Lincoln. In: England and the Continent in the Middle Ages: Studies in Memory of Andrew Martindale, Proceedings of the 1996 Harlaxton Symposium. Shaun Tyas, Stamford, pp. 60-74.
Book
Franklin, Jill, Heslop, T.A and Stevenson, Christine, eds. (2012) Architecture and Interpretation: Essays for Eric Fernie. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1843837817
Show/Exhibition
Heslop, Sandy (2011) Basketry: making human nature, exhibition catalogue. [Show/Exhibition]
Key Responsibilities
Associate Dean for Advancement, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Director of Research,
Academic Link for Arts Programmes, University Campus
