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150 aerial photograph
Being a part of University of Plymouth's history!
On 21 September 2011, between our graduation ceremonies on Plymouth Hoe, we took some spectacular aerial photographs of a '150' made from people. A truly memorable moment in our anniversary celebrations and a big thanks to all the University staff, students, graduates and their friends and family who so patiently filed into the '150' marked area for the aerial photograph to be taken - around 1,750 people took part, including those graduating from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences!
We have gathered many names of those who took part in this occasion, listed in alphabetical order - please select your surname from the table below. If we have omitted anyone who was present, please contact us at eradmin@plymouth.ac.uk and we will ensure your name is added.
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Claire Abbott, Maura Ahern, Joseph Avee, David Aird, Janine Aird, Nathan Aird, Christopher Amor, M Anderson, Pamela Andrews, Kirsty Andrews, Katie Angliss, Aaron Apperley, Rose Archer, Allan Armstrong, Fiona Jane Armstrong, Joyce Armstrong, Sam Arthur, Jean Ashford, Scot Auld, Crawford Auld, Gary Auld, Gill Auld,&nb
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Dr Lorna Dillon
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Research Interests
I specialise in Latin American art and culture. My main research areas are textile art (twentieth century and contemporary) and the work of the Chilean artist Violeta Parra. My current project explores the link between visual art and human rights through the analysis of transnational art movements. My work confronts exclusionary biases in the art world, particularly with regard to craft work, participatory textile art movements and the art of the Global South.
My other interests include the iconography of human rights, Surrealism, Pop art, muralism and the translation of theatre.
Selected Publications
Books
Violeta Parra’s Visual Art: Painted Songs
This book explores Violeta Parra’s visual art, focusing on her embroideries (arpilleras), paintings, papier-mâché collages and sculptures. Parra is one of Chile’s great artists and musicians, yet her visual art is relatively unknown. Her fusion of complex imagery from Chilean folk music and culture with archetypes in Western art results in a hybrid body of work. Parra’s hybridism is the story of this book, in which I explore Parra’s ‘painted songs’, the ekphrastic nature of her creations and the way ideas translate from her music and poetry into her v
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