CWS PhD Student goes on funded research trip to Paris

Posted on 8 November 2023

Lizzie Merrill was awarded funding to conduct a research trip to Paris, by White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities.

WRoCAH-funded CWS doctoral candidate, Lizzie Merrill was awarded funding to conduct a research trip to Paris from 1^st-2^nd November 2023, by White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities. This trip involved visiting the Centre Pompidou’s public gallery, library and archives to see the work of artist, Jo Spence. Lizzie has already attended the Jo Spence Memorial Library at Birkbeck University of London and the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths University to access original documents by the artist. However, several of the works held in France could not be accessed in the UK!

As well as studying the work of Spence while in Paris, Lizzie found time to detour to several other art exhibitions, the Ron Muek Exhibition at the Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, as well as the Irving Penn exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac.