Sarah Hand | Staff Profile | Southampton Solent University
Sarah Hand
Lecturer in Fashion
Sarah Hand has a BA (Hons) in Photography (first class) and a Masters in Professional Practices in Photography and Fashion (distinction).
Sarah currently lectures on the BA (Hons) Fashion courses, specialising in Fashion Design, Graphics, Promotion and Fashion with Photography. Prior to this she taught photography on the Media, Culture and Production programme for the Faculty of Media, Arts and Society in conjunction with working for the Centre for Research and Enterprise in Art, Design and Media and the FMAS Research Centre.
Her current research combines fashion performance, photography and interactive technologies, relating to sonic, motion and image immersive environments. This research links to a number of conference papers that she has delivered nationally – Oxford, Sheffield and Cardiff Universities and internationally – Prague, Iceland, Bulgaria and Turkey. Her photographic work has been exhibited over the past 8 years in both solo and group shows and she has contributed to a number of academic publications. She is a member of the women’s photography research group – IRIS.
Sarah is Chairman of Exhibitions at the Cameron Museum and Galleries and a Governor for the Board of Trustees for the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust. Her previous work has attracted a number of national awards for business planning and management, along with a number of other prestigious photographic and business awards.
Recent outputs/publications
Forthcoming:
Symposium Construct – The Body in Flux 28th April 2011 Paper & photographic exhibition
Chapter To Die For: The Relationship between Crime and Fashion in the work of Melanie Pullen In publication by I B Tauris titled Fashion Crimes: Dressing for Deviance
Exhibition Notes From the Playground Michael Andrews Gallery, Southampton Solent University April – July 2011
VisuoSonic performances and presentations incorporating Convergent Photography:
Performance/presentations
KikiT VisuoSonic stage visuals for Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble/Sigamos Quartet: Tenth Anniversary Concert, 2010 London Jazz Festival, Arts Depot, London, 18 November 2010
KikiT VisuoSonic and Natalia Kulabuchova Music in the City – sonic/visual interactive performance, The Bargate, Southampton, 9 October 2010
KikiT VisuoSonic installation 11th Interactive Tapestry Victoria & Albert Museum and London Design Festival, 18 – 26 September 2010, including the Friday Late V&A performance 24 September, Devonshire Tapestry Gallery
KikiT VisuoSonic lecture/performance - Exploring the space between real and virtual realities, (TaPRA) Theatre and Performance Research Association Conference, Atrium Theatre - Glamorgan University Cardiff, 9 –11 September 2010
VisuoSonics in a Museum Context lecture/performance at the Third International Conference on the Inclusive Museum Yildiz University, Istanbul, 29 June – 2 July 2010
Accessing New Technologies for Performance Symposium - KikiT VisuoSonic & Convergent Photography lecture/performance, Sheffield University, 8 May 2010
KikiT VisuoSonic commissioned performance for Constructed - UEA Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and Design, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, 20 November 2008
KikiT VisuoSonic presentation at ISEA 2008 International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Singapore, 23 July-3 August 2008
KikiT VisuoSonic performance/presentation, EVA 2008, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, The British Computer Society, London, 22-24 July 2008
KikiT VisuoSonic performance/lecture, Sala D’Actes, Facultat de Belles Arts, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 13 March 2008
KikiT VisuoSonic commissioned performance/workshop Eye-Music: Kandinsky and All That Jazz, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norfolk, UK
28-9 November 2007
KikiT VisuoSonic performance/presentation, Interactive Futures: The New Screen, The Open Space Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 16 November 2007
KikiT VisuoSonic performance/presentation – Virtual Systems and Multimedia 13th International Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. September 2007
KikiT VisuoSonic performance/paper Technarte: Art and Technology Conference, Bibao, Spain, 24 May 2007
KikiT VisuoSonic performance with SB BRASS, Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de la ville de Liège, Belgium 20 April 2006
Publications/papers
“KikiT VisuoSonic and Convergent Photography for Theatre and Performance: Producing and Capturing Motion-sonic Interactivity in the Context of ‘Total Theatre’.” 1st Global Conference: Performance and Visual Aspects of Performance Practice. Michna Palace, Prague, Czech Republic 11th -13th November 2010. Published paper –Interdisciplinary.net
“KikiT VisuoSonic and Convergent Photography for Theatre and Performance” First Global Conference: Performance and Visual Aspects of Performance Practice. Prague, November 2010
“From Cameron to Convergence: Photo-narrative with Fantasy and Role-play”, Images in Time Conference – Reykjavik, Iceland, November 2009 and First Global Fashion Conference: Exploring Critical Issues, Oxford University, 25– 27 September 2009. Published paper – Interdisciplinary.net
Exhibitions (Selected)
‘Notes from the Playground’ Olympus Galleries Cameron Museum & Galleries 22nd October – 29 January 2011 (sponsored by Olympus).
A Celebration of the Isle of Wight Pop Festival 2006-2009 Group Exhibition at 2010 Pop Festival site 11 – 13t June 2010
Becoming Emily Cameron Museum & Galleries, solo exhibition, sponsored by Olympus, 22 June – 12 August 2007
Nos.tal.gist Concourse Gallery, Southampton Solent University, solo photographic exhibition, 1st June – 9th October 2006 (six pieces of work purchased for University’s private collection).
Lady of Shalott in permanent collection at the Cameron Museum & Galleries, shown alongside the work of Lichfield, Snowdon, Bailey, Stark etc. May 2006
Teaches on:
Courses:
Fashion with Photography
Fashion Promotion
Fashion Design
Fashion Graphics
Units:
Fashion Visualisation
Fashion in Context
Design Communication
Dissertation
Conceptual Photographic Practice
Qualifications:
Master of Arts (MA) - MProf in Media Practice, Distinction
BA (Hons) Photography, First Class
Certificate of Higher Education for Photography, Staffordshire University
Associate Distinction to the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS)