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1. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award - Community in Clay
Ceramic Arts Research Centre, University of Sunderland with
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
NIHU IPS Scholarship Case Study:
National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
Recontextualising the George Brown Collection through creative
ceramic practice and community engagement
January – April 2013
Christopher McHugh
Director of Studies:
Co-supervisor:
External Supervisor:
Prof Kevin Petrie, University of Sunderland
Dr Andrew Livingstone, University of Sunderland
Shauna Gregg, Keeper of Fine and Decorative Art,
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

2. Entrance to NME (Minpaku)
‘Relics for the Future’

3. Permanent display of the George
Brown Collection at National Museum
of Ethnology, Osaka.

4. Left: ‘Man with clock placed in lobe
of his ear to show the size of the
orifice, circumference of clock,
thirteen inches.’, from Melanesians
and Polynesians by George Brown
Right: the clock as it is now in
the George Brown Collection
at Minpaku

5. Working with artists,
makers and curators in the
George Brown Collection
storeroom, National
Museum of Ethnology,
Osaka
An animator from Kyoto City University of Arts
examines a club from Fiji.

6. Party with PhD students from Papua New Guinea,
Association of South Pacific Area, Osaka

7. Solomon Islands lime
container, George Brown
Collection, NME

8. Porcelain vessels based on
lime containers from the
Solomon Islands in the
George Brown Collection,
National Museum of
Ethnology, Osaka

9. Flotsam and Jetsam, UAPS, Osaka,
March, 2013

11. Work made as a result of IPS
on display in PhD exhibition at
Sunderland Museum & Winter
Gardens Photo: Colin Davison

12. The Heart of Jack Crawford: A Shrine to Unsung Heroes
Gallery of Wonder exhibition at
Great North Museum: Hancock
14th May – 18th June, 2011
The home of the George Brown Collection until 1985

13. Tracing elements of the George Brown
Collection which are still in UK collections
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
British Museum
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
New Ireland malanggan objects at the
Sainsbury Centre, UEA

14. Thanks for listening!
Christopher.McHugh@research.sunderland.ac.uk
www.CommunityinClay.org.uk