Staff Profile Elen Phillips
Principal Curator Contemporary & Community History
Contact Details
Phone: +44 (0)29 2057 3432
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Qualifications, memberships and relevant positions
BA (Hons) History (Aberystwyth), MA Welsh Ethnological Studies (Cardiff), Post Graduate Diploma Museums Studies (Leicester); Museums Association (Individual member); Ethnology and Folk Studies Section, University of Wales Alumni Association (Committee member); Women’s Archive Wales (Individual member).
Research Interests
Participatory curatorial practice; contemporary collecting methodologies; history of curatorship at St Fagans National History Museum; use of social media platforms to share primary source material; object biographies; micro history.
Quilting and craft-based employment schemes in Wales between the wars; St Fagans Castle and voluntary action during the First World War; men and needlework; Welsh Costume as an identity signifier.
Keywords
Contemporary collecting, co-curation, social impact, participation, identity and representation.Links
Selected Publications
Hughes, S. & Phillips, E. 2019. From Vision to Action: The journey towards activism at St Fagans National Museum of History. In R. Janes & R. Sandell (eds), Museum Activism (London & New York: Routledge), 245-255.
Phillips, E. 2019. Quilting Venice / Cwiltio Fenis. In S. Edwards, Undo Things Done (Liverpool & Wrexham: Bluecoat/Ty Pawb), 33-47.
Phillips, E. 2014. A picture of the past and a mirror of the present: Iorwerth Peate and the origins of the Welsh Folk Museum. In Z. Baveystock and O. Rhys (eds), Collecting the Contemporary (Edinburgh & Cambridge, MA: Museums Etc), 40-62.
Phillips, E. 2013. Touching Objects: St Fagans National History Museum. Museum Practice, (February 2013).
Phillips, E. 2010. Wales. In L. Skov (ed.), Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: West Europe (Oxford & New York: Berg), 312-13.
Prichard, S. (ed.) 2010. Quilts 1700-2010: Hidden Histories, Untold Stories (London: V&A Publishing). (E. Phillips catalogue entry).
Neuland-Kitzerow, D. et al (eds) 2009. Inlaid Patchwork in Europe from 1500 to the Present (Berlin: Museum of European Cultures). (E. Phillips catalogue entry).
Hughes, S., Phillips, E. & Rhys, Owain, 2008, Pop Peth: exhibiting contemporary music in a gallery context [PDF], Collectingnet Newsletter, 3.
Phillips, E. 2006. Reconstructing St Teilo’s Church, Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 2, issue 2.