Research Associate Institute of Design, Culture and the Arts
Jeanine Breaker
Jeanine Breaker has a long career as an international lecturer, practicing artist, and researcher, with particular focus in drawing. She was invited to London in 2002 by the Royal College of Art to research the anatomy of human movement and gesture under a Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellowship.
Jeanine was awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellowship in 2002 and an Arts and Humanities Research Board Grant in 2003 at the Royal College of Art; and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts from 2004 through 2007 at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Her £142,000 AHRC CPA Fellowship, to investigate gesture using both traditional drawing and cutting-edge movement analysis technology, was the largest individual fellowship award that year. In addition, she raised an additional £100,000 in contributions, assistance and research residencies from national and international sponsors including Harvard University (USA); Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg (Germany); Victoria School of Visual and Performing Arts (Canada); Roehampton University, Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music; Central School of Speech and Drama, Anglia Ruskin University, the English National Ballet School (England); and NESTA Research Fellow and theatre director Julian Crouch (Scotland).
Jeanine's AHRC CPA Fellowship output included three solo exhibitions in the United States and Germany, as well as thirty dissemination presentations in eight countries including the Tate and National Galleries, and the Science Museum in London in collaboration with Imperial College scientists at the Steiner MRI Unit at Hammersmith Hospital.
She was part of a UAL / Tate collaborative research project from which her drawing was selected for exhibition in the Tate Britain Clore Gallery in 2006. Her exhibited drawing is now part of the Tate Print and Drawing Collection. She participated in spearheading the UAL International Centre for Fine Arts Research and UAL Drawing Research Centre.
In October 2006 she was invited as a co-convener on the first 'AHRC Practice Making Sense - A Guide to Writing Research Proposals' workshop with select fellowship award holders whose applications earned A+ ratings.
Ms Breaker was awarded practice-based research grants including at the Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg in Ludwigsburg and the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart, Germany in 2006; the Victoria School of Visual and Performing Arts in Alberta, Canada in 2004 and 2001; the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia in 2001; Gobelins l'école de l'image in Paris, France in 1999; Fundacion Valparaiso in Andalucia, Spain in 1998 and 1996; and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, USA in 1988. She was awarded field studies research grants in Paris in 1987 and 1985 funded by Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA; and in New York City in 1990 funded by grants from the University of California, USA.
She was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship in Drawing and the Visual Arts at Nottingham Trent University from 2008 to 2009. She is currently collaborating with NTU Professor John Newling on a series of grant projects, including Research Fellow on his major award-winning 'Ark: Road Vines' public art project (www.arklab.co.uk) from 2010 through 2013. 'Road Vines' will collaborate with twenty-six UK institutions including the Eden and Baltic Projects and will circumnavigate the globe including exhibitions at the Tate, Natural History Museum, Welcome Trust and Georges Pompidou Centre.
Exhibitions
Select solo exhibitions include at the Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg in Ludwigburg and Haus der Wirtschaft Exhibition Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany (2006); Royal College of Art in London (2002); Centre d'Etude d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme in Saintes, France (1999); Fundacion Valparaiso in Andalusia, Spain (1998, 1996); and in the USA at Brand Art Galleries in Glendale, California (1997), Pierce Art Gallery in Woodland Hills, California (1994) and the Todd Exhibition Centre at Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, California (1994).
Gallery representation at William Turner Gallery in Bergamot Art Centre in Santa Monica, California USA include solo exhibitions in 2007, 2004, 2002 and 2000 (images available at www.williamturnergallery.com).
Select group exhibitions include, in England at the Tate Britain (2007), The Drawing Gallery (2006) and Surrey University (2008); in the USA at Long Beach Museum of Art (2001, 1995, 1988, 1985), Los Angeles Pacific Design Centre (1999, 1993), UCLA Armond Hammer Museum (1996), Angel's Gate Cultural Centre in San Pedro (1992), Los Angeles Municipal Art Centre (1993, 1981, 1980); Santa Monica Museum of Art (1996), South Bay Centre for the Arts (1992), Irvine Fine Arts Centre (1992, 1984), Santa Monica Heritage Museum (1991), Palos Verdes Art Centre (1988), Palo Alto Cultural Art Centre (1987), Orange County Centre for Contemporary Art (1985, 1984), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980), Newport Harbor Art Museum (1984, 1981), Bowers Art Museum in Santa Ana (1984), Laguna Beach Museum of Art (1981), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (1980) in California; in New Orleans World Fair Exhibition at the Women's Pavilion (1984) in St. Louis, Missouri; and over one hundred international commercial and cultural exhibition spaces.
Papers and publications
Book chapters: Probing the Boundaries / at the Interface, Rodopi (Amsterdam, New York) 2009; Regarding Preservation of Nuance: Visual Literacy in the Perception of the Human Body, plenary paper delivered at 3rd Global Conference, Mansfield College Oxford, Interdisciplinary Press (2009); Plenary paper delivered on National Gallery panel Drawing: The Future (2006), University of the Arts Press, London.
Select critical reviews include exhibition catalogues produced for exhibitions Art in America (2002); Evening Standard (2002), The Los Angeles Times (2002, 2000, 1997, 1994, 1993, 1989, 1988, 1985, 1982, 1981), The Seattle Times (1980), The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1980), The Seattle Daily News (1980), Artweek (2002, 1995, 1993, 1983, 1983, 1981, 1980), ArtScene (2000, 1993, 1985), Venice Magazine (2002, 2000), Coagula Art Journal (2000), Artpress Magazine (1999), La Entertainmiento (1998), La Opinion (1983), LA Weekly (1997, 1993); interviews on Fullerton Cable and KYOU TV (1984).
Exhibition catalogues produced for exhibitions, at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (1984), Santa Monica Museum of Art (1997), Laguna Beach Museum of Art (1988), Pacific Design Center (1999), Idyllwild School of Music and the Visual and Performing Arts (1999) in California; and the Henry Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle (1980).
Delivered papers include 'Preservation of Nuance' at the '3rd Global Conference: Visual Literacies', Mansfield College, Oxford (2009) published by Interdisciplinary Press. Keynote speaker and presentation of master classes at Body Perspectives art and technology symposia at the Science Museum, London (2008 and upcoming 2009). Guest speaker on the National Gallery panel 'Drawing: The Future' (2006 published by the University of the Arts London. Keynote speaker and presentation of master classes at the Alberta Pedagogic Development Conference in Edmonton, Canada (2004). Guest speaker on 'The Anatomy of Gesture' at the Tate Modern, and the National Film Theatre Symposium, London (2002). Guest speaker at the New Technology Conference and presented master classes in Pasadena, California (2000). Guest speaker at the 3-D Art and Media Conference in San Francisco, California USA in 1999. Guest speaker at FMX05 Conference in Stuttgart, Germany in 2005 and 2006. Guest speaker at the International Film Conference Wales in Cardiff in 2000 and 2001.
Teaching and lecturing
Select teaching and lecturing in the UK, in England at the Royal College of Art (2000- 2008), Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (1999–2007), Chelsea College of Art and Design (2007), College of Art and Design Camberwell (2006) London College of Fashion (2006), and Roehampton University (2006) in London; Norwich College of Art (2006); and Ravensbourne College at Sussex University (2003, 2004); in Wales at University of Wales Newport (2000–2005), University of Wales Cardiff (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008), University of Wales Pontypridd (2002–2008); and in Scotland at Edinburgh College of Art (2000). PhD advisor in England at the College of Art and Design Camberwell and Wimbledon College of Art (2006–2007); and MFA advisor at Nottingham Trent University (2008-2009).
Select teaching in North America, in the USA at Harvard University (2009 and 2006); California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) (2001); University of Southern California (1989–2002), Otis College of Art and Design (1985–1996), Loyola Marymount University (1985–1986), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of California Irvine (1985–1995); Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (1996–2001); Orange Coast College (1991–1996); and in Canada at Victoria School of Visual and Performing Arts (2009, 2004, and 2001) and University of Alberta (2004).
Select international teaching, in Spain at Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc in Barcelona (2008); in Germany at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart (2006), and Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg in Ludwigsburg (2000–2006); in Switzerland at Hochschule für Gestaltung+Kunst in Luzern (2002, 2006); in France at Gobelins l'école de l'image (2001) and Otis Parsons College in Paris (1995, 1997), and Centre d'Etude d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme in Saintes (1999); in Australia at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney (2001).
Select studio master classes, in the UK at Aardman in Bristol (2000); at Moving Picture Company (2004, 2006, 2008), Richard Purdum Productions (2000, 2001), Hibbert-Ralph (2000, 2001), Uli Meyers (2001) and Pizazz (2000, 2001) in London; at Red Kite Studio in Edinburgh; in Spain at Grin in Barcelona (2008); in the USA at DreamWorks (1996–1999), Warner Brothers (1996–1998), Cinesite (1998, 2000), Digital Domain (2003), VIFX (1997– 1998), Nickelodeon (1999-2001), and Disney in California (1995–2001), and at Disney in Paris, France (1999) and in Sydney, Australia (2001).
