qualifications

2010 Phd. Plymouth University: 'Traces, Boundaries, Surfaces: an investigation through art practice of institutional sites with particular reference to a former lunatic asylum'
1980 BA (Hons) Fine Art Exeter College of Art and Design (CNAA)


professional

2002- Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Fine Art, Plymouth University
2008- Programme Leader MA Fine Art, Plymouth University
2009- Subject Leader Fine Art, Plymouth University
2010- MA Coordinator, School of Art & Media
2010- Liaison and Member, Transart Institute, New York, USA

2006-8 External Examiner, Wimbledon School of Art
2007-11 External Examiner for BCU, partnership college

Member of Research Group 'Theory, Culture, Space', Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University
Member of the Art Research Collective (ARC)


recent projects and exhibitions

2011 (ongoing) 'Geographies of Affect and Memory' at the Museo Laboratorio della Mente, Rome
2010 'Spaces Inbetween', Transart International Collective, Concent Art, Berlin
2010 'Re-formations', Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland 11th Nov - 10th Dec
2009 Re-formations, site-based interventive projections, Davy building, Plymouth
2000 'Window Sills: Art of Locality' funded by Regional Arts Lottery Fund
1999 Souls/Soles in 'Traces' St Michael's Church Honiton
1999 Chloride in 'On and Off the Wall', Art Haven, Exeter
1999 Salt Pieces in '21' Spacex Gallery, Exeter with work sited at St Nicholas Priory


publications

Bennett, S (2010) 'Re-acting Traces: The Historical Building as Container of Memory' In The Journal of Memory Connection (online) - Vol 1, No 1, ‘Contained Memory’ Published by Massey University and Syracuse University
Bennett, S and Melling, G (2010) 'Window Sills: Art of Locality' in Szijártó Zsolt (ed) Public/Space: Concepts, perspectives and approaches, Budapest: Gondolat
Bennett, S. (2010) 'Re-forming the institution: the wall as memory archive' in Journal of Media Practice Volume 11 Number 3
Bennett, S. (2008) 'Crossing the Line' in Coutts, G and Jokela, T (2008) (Eds) Art, Community and Environment: Educational Perspectives (Readings in Art and Design Education) Bristol: Intellect
Bennett, S., Butler, J., Kirkham, N and Miles, M (2004) 'A Comparative Evaluation: Projects in Exeter, Barcelona, London and Tyneside' in Miles, M. and Hall, T. (Eds) Interventions: Art and Urban Futures Vol. 4, Portland, USA and Bristol: Intellect
Bennett, S. Mellings, G (2001) 'Art of Locality' in AN Magazine for Artists
Bennett, S. (2000) 'Crossing the Line' in International Journal of Art Education Vol 19 No. 3
Bennett, S. and Melling, G. (2000) 'Window Sills: Art of Locality' in Bennett, S and Butler J (Eds) Locality, Regeneration and Diversities, Art and Urban Futures Vol 1, Bristol and Portland, USA: Intellect

practice presentations

2011 Tracing Absence: between bodies and buildings at American Anthropological Association Annual Conference ‘Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies’ Montreal 16th-20th November
2010 Wall-wounds: The wall as memory archive - Contained Memory Conference, Te Papa National Museum, Wellington, New Zealand, 9th-11th December
2010 Dis-placing Memory: The wall as memory archive - Creativity and Place Conference (AHRC funded), Geography Dept, University of Exeter, 23rd - 25th June
2010 re-formations: Re-enactment as an Artistic Research Method, AAG Conference, Washington DC, April 14th - 18th
2010 Re-modelling the model: A critique of an institution through artistic research, Models as Active Spaces symposium, Plymouth Arts Centre February 17th Feb
2009 re-formations: Wall as Memory Archive, Journal of Media Practice Symposium, University of Sussex 13th July
2007 Refuge for the Mad, or Refuge from the Mad, Utopia Conference, Plymouth University July 7th and 8th
2006 The Importance of Names: an analysis of changing nomenclature in two former asylums, Connections No.5: An Interdisciplinary Conference of Research Students, University of Bristol February 16th - 17th