Personal statement

Dr Lucy Gundry is an Associate Lecturer in the Schools of Design and Art, Film and Media at Bath Spa University. Lucy lectures and tutors textile and fashion students to develop a reflexive synthesis between theory, practice and exhibition.

Lucy is interested in the relationship between body, dress and self as a fabricated skin, formed through the act of dressing and worn out in the everyday. Her doctoral research focused on the haptic aesthetics of dress as grasped communication observed through seeing but not touching dress in the museum. Current research interests include practice based ‘enclothed curating’, embodied and emplaced ‘voices’ in clothes and clothes as ‘belongings’.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD (RCA) Haptic Aesthetics of Dress
  • MA Contemporary Curating - Dress (AHRC funded)
  • BA Textile Art
  • BA History of Design & Visual Arts.

Other external roles

  • Research – (AHRC) Practice based Fashion Research Network project, Northumbria University and Parsons School of Design, NY
  • Curating - Enclothed community projects
  • Co-editorial - Journal of Textile Design and Practice (Bloomsbury).

Teaching specialism

  • Textile Art, Design theory and practice
  • Fashion theory and critical studies
  • Museum and curatorial studies.

What can Bath Spa staff and students contact you about?

  • Textile, Fashion and Costume theory, practice and curating.

Research supervision

  • Critical textile, fashion and costume studies and theory
  • Practice based research in clothing, fashion and costume
  • Museum, curating and exhibitions
  • Rescue and futures.