About — molly pardoe

About Me

My work arises within the intersection of art, pedagogy and collaboration. Both my professional and academic roles are grounded in exploring alternative forms of knowledge in this critical space.

Artist Statement

My painting practice builds layered, iterative, and contemplative environments as a means of critiquing identity. This is enacted through the lens of transnationalism. In navigating the materiality of oil, I builds a relation to space, a detachment to form, and an insistent loyalty to the temporal particularities of the making moment. “Looking” as a pedagogical process here attends to the diffractive qualities of these spatial relationships: diffractions in a temporal navigation pick up on patterns of recurrence, reproduction, continuations, ruptures, and catalysts that inform the work, and learning through this as a visual practice maps interferences and pins down the ways in which ideas and “effects of difference appear” (Haraway 2004; 70). Through these diffractions, this practice attends to the nature of temporal placemaking beyond, through, and across the nation-state. In these observations, the distinction between representation and encounter is a playful site for creative momentum. This juxtapositional process holds a visual space for unfolding, emergent, and lively reconciliations of ontological discontinuities.

Research Portfolio

PhD Candidate Centre for Arts and Learning  (Goldsmiths College)

My research looks at temporal placemaking practices of transnationalism, both in painting and in collective making processes.

Keywords

transnational feminism; posthumanism; practice-based research; painting methodologies; placemaking; collective practice

Collaborative Practices

Seeders (see below for collective outputs)- collaborative pedagogy research working group

PBR Forum leader, Goldsmiths College

PGR Student Representative

Co-organiser of Centre for Arts and Learning "Crit Series"

Research Assistant at Reggio Children 2015-2019

Publications

(Forthcoming chapter) Pardoe, M & McDonnell. B. "Looking, Listening and Listening to Looking: Aesthetic Imaginaries in Collaborative Studio Practices” in Ecologies in Practice: Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis. Palgrave MacMillan.

Ludevid Llop, M., Martin, J., McDonnell, B., Ortolani, S., Pardoe, M., Stanhope, C., Vicente Richards, A. (2024) How does a collective body arrive, move, and learn? Becoming through practice-based research as a stringing-(em)bodying process, in Special Issue of Humanities "With–In Bodies: Research Assemblages of the Sensory and the Embodied" (ISSN 2076-0787)

Pardoe, M., Dixon, B., & McDonnell. B (2023) Intangible materialities: exploring the unseen in practice-based research. Holt Journal.

Selected Conferences, Exhibitions, Residencies

Goldsmiths PGR Conference 2023

UAL Education Conference 2023

iJade Conference November 2022

Crypt Gallery, London (July 2021)

The Koppel Project Hive, London (2018-2020)

Residenza il Palmerino (2017)

Barbican Private Gallery WIP (2022)

Cyclone House "Fools Gold" (2018)

Via della Chiesa "Luna di Miele" (2017)

Artstudio 50 "Meandri" (2016)