Dr Tom Normand
HRSA
Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: tan@st-andrews.ac.uk
Teaching Areas
Scottish Art and Modernism
Scottish Photography and its International
Context
Contemporary Painting, Sculpture and Photography from Scotland
Vernacular Photography
Wyndham Lewis and English Art
Research Areas
Developments in Scottish art and culture
in the 20th century.
The history of photography in Scotland.
Contemporary trends in Scottish Art.
Vernacular photography in the Scottish context.
19th and 20th century British Art.
Publications
Books
Scottish Photography: a History, Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2007.
Ken Currie : Details of a Journey, Lund Humphries (Ashgate), London, 2002.
Calum Colvin: Ossian, Fragments of Ancient Poetry, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2002 (simultaneous publication in Gaelic as Oisein, Bloighean De Sheann Bhardachd).
The Modern Scot: Modernism and Nationalism in Scottish Art 1928-1955, Ashgate Press, London, 2000.
Wyndham Lewis the Artist; Holding the Mirror up to Politics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
Recent Articles
'Other Photographies, Different Histories: looking at photographs in Dunfermline', Studies in Photography 2009, March 2010
‘Natural Magic: Calum Colvin and the legacy of Sir David Brewster’, in Natural Magic, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2009.
‘Seeing Scottish Art Now’, catalogue The Scottish Show, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery and Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2008.
‘Memory, Myth and Melancholy: Ossian and the tropes of Scottish photography’ in Interfaces: Image, Texte, Language, no. 27, Spring 2008.
‘Photography and the Book in Scotland’ in Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, vol 4: Professionalism and Diversity, 1880-2000, edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
'Calum Colvin: Ossian', Next Level: Art, Photography, Ideas, Edition 12, October 2007.
'Imagining and Imaging the Land: some ideological formations of landscape photography in Scotland', in A Shared Legacy: Essay on Irish and Scottish Art and Visual Culture, edited by J. Morrison & F, Cullen, Ashgate, 2005.
'Alvin Langdon Coburn, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edinburgh', History of Photography, vol.29, no.1, Spring 2005.
'David Williams: one taste: (n)ever changing', Portfolio; Contemporary Photography in Britain, #39 June 2004
Forthcoming Articles
‘Other Photographies, Different Histories: looking at vernacular photographs in Dunfermline’, Studies in Photography, Scottish Society for the History of Photography, 2010.
'55˚ North 3˚ West: A Panorama from Scotland', for Remapping British Art and Architecture, Dana Arnold, David Peters Corbett, eds., Oxford: Blackwell publishing, 2009-2010.
‘Alvin Langdon Coburn and the Vortograph’, for publication to accompany the exhibition ‘Vorticism at the Dore Gallery, 1915’ at the Tate Gallery, 2010.
Recent Activities
Steven Campbell (1953-2007),
'Portrait of Tom Normand',
1998,
Mixed media, Boswell Collection,
HC1999.1
August 2009. Scottish Parliament & Festival of Politics: Chair for 'Callie Shell: World Press Photographer of the Year'.
Consultant, invited committee of academics on re-development of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1994-present Co-ordinator and fund manager ‘The Harry Margery Boswell Collection at St. Andrews University’ http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~muscoll/boswell/
St Andrews Scottish Studies Network at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/sassn/
Conference papers
'Vernacular Photography from Scotland', Trigger presentation 'The Tartan Lens: a Colloquium on Scottish National Identity in the Visual Arts', University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen Art Gallery, May 2009.
Keynote Speaker: ‘Other Photographies: Different Histories’, Scottish Society for the History of Photography, 25th Anniversary Conference, ‘Photography in Scotland: Then, Now and Beyond Our Time’, National Galleries of Scotland, 27-28 March 2009.
‘Visualsing Scottish Identity: the Vigorous Imagination Exhibition of 1987’, 40th Anniversary Scottish Studies Fall Colloquium, Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph, Canada, 26-27 September 2008.
‘Memorials and Memory-places: Understanding Scotland's Photography’, Institut d'études Anglophones, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot, Paris, December 2006.
‘Memory, myth and melancholy: aspects of history and photography from Scotland’, Ossian Then and Now Conference, UNESCO, Paris, September 2005.
Selection of Book Covers
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Ken Currie Details of a Journey |
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Calum Colvin; Ossian Fragments of Ancient Poetry |
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Wyndham Lewis the Artist |
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Scottish Photography: |
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The Modern Scot |
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Notice to graduate students
Tom Normand would welcome graduate students with research interests in all aspects of Scottish art and visual culture. Also, aspects of British painting in the modern period.