UoK Faculty Wins Cambridge Research Fellowship

Following the announcement for the 22/23 Fellows of the inaugural Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowship programme, Dr. Abbas Akbari, faculty member the Faculty of Architecture and Art, University of Kashan was listed among the winners of fellowship.

This research programme aims to renew and catalyse the study of ‘the visual’ by bringing fresh voices and approaches and to extend visual culture studies into specialisms and fields which are under-represented in Cambridge’s research communities.

Dr. Akbari along with other researchers will spend two week residencies in Cambridge during the 22/23 academic year, during which time they will develop their research in conversation with collections and colleagues across the university, teach a student seminar, and deliver a public event.

Abbas Akbari is a multi-award winning Iranian ceramicist, based at the University of Kashan, and a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. Akbari’s particular practice-based research has involved the consultation of historical recipes to rediscover the technique of decorating in lustre, an overglaze technique using metallic oxides that give the finished product a distinctive sheen.
 
As the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge Cambridge’s website indicates: Dr. Abbas Akbari’s CVC Fellowship will bring new perspectives and research techniques to Cambridge, which will further highlight under-researched collections that sit at the interface between Western Asian and Western traditions. Drawing from his experience as a pottery artist, he identifies different artistic expressions and technical practices, in order to differentiate the artistic signatures of different potters involved in making lustreware in Gorgan based on the broken lustreware fragments housed in Iranian museums.

You can read more about this fellowship opportunity on University of Cambridge’s Department of History of Art website (Click HERE)