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Date of birth:29.05.1971
Education and qualifications:
1994 MA in Museum Studies - Pass (Thesis: Distinction)
University of Leicester
1992 BA Hons (2i) in History of Art, University of Warwick
1989 A Levels: History (B), Geography (B), Art (C) Ballakermeen High School, Douglas, Isle of Man
Computer literacy:
Fluent: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Publisher, Wordperfect,
Adobe Photoshop, Broadway (video capture and compression), Mediabase 4.01 and
Dreamweaver 3.0
Competent: Quark Express, Correlate (British Telecommunications Asset Management
software for Informix Database), Informix Universal Server
Career and work experience:
June 1998 -: Research Fellow, Digital Archiving and the Applied Arts, University of the West of England and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Duties include:
· Archiving the National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts (NEVAC).
· Completing a PhD, 'The craft potter in late twentieth century Britain: a demographic
and historical study of functional potters and the communities/organisations
within which they operate'. ?
· Digitising NEVAC video and audio in order to have a complete digital copy
of the archive. The digital files are then comprehensively catalogued. ?
· Organising the publication of a box-set of 50 CD-ROMs of videos from the archive.
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· Publishing articles relating to my work with NEVAC and the Victoria and Albert
Museum.
· Co-ordinating the setting up of a complex Informix database to allow digitised
video files to be accessed remotely via the world-wide-web.
Oct 1994 - May 1998: Curator, Nature in Art, Wallsworth Hall, Twigworth, Gloucester, GL2 9PA
Duties include: ?
· Curating a collection of fine, applied and decorative arts ?
· Organising a full temporary exhibition programme, including annual contemporary
crafts selling exhibition and an average of 5 'in house' and 3 'hired in' ?
· Documentation and computerisation of collection records ?
· Planning, organising and co-ordinating touring exhibitions (3 presently on
tour) ?
· Giving talks and lectures to adults and school groups of all ages ?
· Answering public enquiries ?
· Overseeing acquisitions ?
· Security and insurance of collection ?
· Supervising student placements from schools, colleges & universities ?
· Sitting on Museums Advisory Group for Gloucestershire and the ruling council
of the Nature in Art Trust
Teaching specialisms & current teaching:
I am a module leader on the MA, Ceramics: Making and Archiving run by Michael
Hughes. My specialism is in ceramics history, particularly twentieth century
studio ceramics. I have also lectured in the past to museum audiences, on eighteenth
century portraiture and the art of the Venetian renaissance.
Publications:
A box-set of 50 CD-ROMs of videos from the National Electronic and Video Archive
of the Crafts. I have written and edited a 32 page catalogue of the CD-ROM publication
and the set is now available for sale. As each CD-ROM has an ISBN number, they
are also available individually.
Partington, Matthew. The National Electronic and Video Archive of the Crafts, in the Journal of Design History, vol.13, no.2, Summer 2000, pp.151-159.
Partington, Matthew. Ray Finch and functional, in Interpreting Ceramics (a refereed electronic journal for ceramics), vol.1 no.1, September 2000, www.uwic.ac.uk/ICRC
Presentations & papers:
Presentation: 'NEVAC and Digital Archiving', Design History Research Centre,
University of Brighton, 3 February 1999.
Presentation: 'NEVAC:Plans for the Future', Crafts Council Education Committee, 25 February 1999, (with Mike Hughes).
Presentation: 'Producing audio and video material for museum and gallery delivery', Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery, Hanley, Staffordshire, March 2000.
Seminar: 'Studio Pottery', a series of handling and question and answer sessions on studio pottery for attendees at the Northern Ceramics Society Conference, 'Ceramics in the West Country, Wales and Worcester', Keele University, 24 August 2000.
Paper: 'The Studio Potter in the New Millennium', Northern Ceramics Society Conference, 'Ceramics in the West Country, Wales and Worcester', 25 August 2000.
Paper: 'Preciousness and weight in hand-made ceramics', Precious: Objects and
Collections, Sheffield Hallam University, 23 May 2001.