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Outline Biography
As an undergraduate I studied French with Art History at the University of East Anglia, which included a year at the Sorbonne, and took an MA at the Courtauld Institute, London specialising in French Symbolism.
Employed for six years (1977-1983) as Research Assistant at the Open University, I contributed to course materials and broadcasts on the Enlightenment and Modern Art and Modernism. In the mid-1980s I taught part-time at Manchester Metropolitan University and from 1997-9 taught on the first year course at the University of Edinburgh.
I have lectured widely to NADFAS, in the National Galleries of Scotland and in other galleries in Britain and abroad. Mainly engaged now with writing and exhibition curating, I served as advisory consultant and contributing author to the exhibition Gauguin, Paris, 1889, The Cleveland Museum of Art, October- January, 2009-10; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, February-May, 2010. I was principal curator of the exhibition Gauguin: Maker of Myth held at Tate Modern and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 2010 – June 2011.
My principal current projects are:
Cataloguing works from the Russell collection of French fin-de-siècle art for a touring exhibition.
Contributing entries on Van Gogh and Gauguin to the Systematic Catalogue of 19th century paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Membership of Professional Organisations
- Member of the Franco-British Council since 2006.
- Member of the Friends of the Institut Français d’Ecosse since 1998.
- Ordinary member of the Association of Art Historians.
- Former Events Secretary, now ordinary member of the Scottish Society for Art History.
Research Interests
- Art in late nineteenth-century France with particular reference to Gauguin, Van Gogh, the Nabi group, piano music and associated imagery.
Research activity
- Member of the School of Arts, Culture and Environment Research Seminar group: Early Third Republic France
- Member of the Redefining European Symbolism research network
Publications
Publications list for Belinda Thomson
Teaching
- Contributing to undergraduate and graduate teaching in various ways, e.g. by supervising analytical reports and giving occasional classes to MA students. Being available to advise and support MA and PhD students.
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This article was published on Oct 30, 2012