Dr Connie Wan
University of Nottingham
Connie Wan is Research and Engagement Manager at Universitas21 with a background as an art historian, curator and cultural programme manager. Connie has worked extensively on projects dedicated to the Black-Country painter and printmaker Edwin Butler Bayliss (1874-1950); and with Wolverhampton Art Gallery’s Pop Art collection, especially the works on paper by European artists including Julio le Parc, Karel Appel and Victor Vasarely. She was instrumental in coordinating the 2013-14 exhibition tour of Pauline Boty: pop artist and woman to both Chichester and Lodz, Poland.
Her research is focused on nineteenth-century Birmingham-based artists, art education, and societies, particularly the establishment of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and the artist/drawing master Samuel Lines (1778-1863). Her doctoral thesis explored the teaching methods and outputs from Lines’ drawing academy and examined the landscape imagery, archaeological excavations and depictions of ecclesiastical architecture by Samuel’s eldest son, Henry Harris Lines. Connie is working to publish her doctoral research as a book that focuses on the Lines family and their influence on art and art education in Birmingham and the Midlands.
