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Thomas Alexander "Sandy" Heslop, FSA , FRHS (born August 1949), publishing as T. A. Heslop, is a British academic who specialises in the art and architecture of medieval England. [1] He is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia (UEA). [2] He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for the 1997/1998 academic year. [3]

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Heslop read for a BA in the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, which he completed in 1971, [4] and, during that time, he contributed photographs of British churches to the Conway Library whose archive, of primarily architectural images, is in the process of being digitised as part of the wider Courtauld Connects project. [5]

Having joined what was then the School of World Art Studies and Museology (now the School of Art, Media and American Studies) at UEA in 1976 under the deanship of Andrew Martindale, whose obituary Heslop penned in 1995, [6] Professor Heslop lists his overarching interest as being "in making and its place in human culture. Humans use objects of all kinds (natural and manufactured) for practical purposes but also to structure understanding and identities"...and also in "analysing the relationship between people and things, and the role of imagination in the creation and reception of artefacts". [4] In 2011, Sandy Heslop curated the exhibition Basketry: Making Human Nature at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. [7]

In the 1990s, Heslop was one of a number of researchers who developed the field of castle studies to address how the structures, especially great towers (also referred to as keeps), reflected their patrons' status. [8] [9] Heslop's study of Orford Castle's architecture "place[s] a range of architectural influences within one building and allow[s] it to accommodate both the secular and the sacred". [10] In 2017 Professor Heslop became principal Investigator and leader of the research programme for the project The Medieval Parish Churches of Norwich – City, Community and Architecture funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Norwich Research Park Translational Fund. [11] [12] He is also working on a study of St Anselm's art patronage at Canterbury, 1093-1109, [13] and related imagery such as the paintings in the Chapter House of Worcester Cathedral. [14] [15]

Professor Heslop was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1982, [16] he is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society [17] and, since 2019, has been Vice President of the British Archaeological Association, [18] having been its President in the preceding year. [19]

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References

  1. ↑ Professor Sandy Heslop. University of East Anglia. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Professor Sandy Heslop, B.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S. British Archaeological Association. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  3. ↑ T.A (Sandy) Heslop FSA. Department of History of Art. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Sandy Heslop - Research Database, The University of East Anglia". people.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  5. ↑ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  6. ↑ "Obituary Andrew Martindale". Cambridge University Press.
  7. ↑ "basketry". www.beyondtext.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  8. ↑ Robert Higham (2010). "Castle Studies in Transition: A Forty Year Reflection". The Archaeological Journal . 167: 1–13. doi:10.1080/00665983.2010.11020791. ISSN   0066-5983. Wikidata   Q42309827.
  9. ↑ Karen Dempsey (2019). "Gender and medieval archaeology: storming the castle". Antiquity (published June 2019). 93 (369): 781. doi:10.15184/AQY.2019.13. ISSN   0003-598X. Wikidata   Q64592029.
  10. ↑ Sarah Speight (2004). "British Castle Studies in the Late 20th and 21st Centuries". History Compass . 2 (1): 9. doi:10.1111/J.1478-0542.2004.00086.X. ISSN   1478-0542. Wikidata   Q42310086.
  11. ↑ "Professor Sandy Heslop, B.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S. | British Archaeological Association". thebaa.org. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  12. ↑ "About Us". The Medieval Churches of Norwich. 2016-01-10. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  13. ↑ "Sandy Heslop: The Organisation and Formation of St Anselm's Crypt | Centre for Kent History and Heritage". 2017-09-11. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  14. ↑ "Online Lecture: 'Wording the Crucifixion: art, inscriptions and polemics of two Romanesque ivory crosses' by Professor Sandy Heslop, 16 November 2020, 6-7pm". Medieval Art Research. 2020-10-09. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  15. ↑ "Sandy Heslop - Research Database, The University of East Anglia". people.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  16. ↑ "Mr Thomas Heslop". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  17. ↑ "List of Members" (PDF). Royal Historical Society.
  18. ↑ "Council & Officers | British Archaeological Association". thebaa.org. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
  19. ↑ "Annual Report Of The Council For The Year Ended 31 December 2019". Journal of the British Archaeological Association. 173 (1): 242–250. 2020-01-01. doi:10.1080/00681288.2020.1822673. ISSN   0068-1288.
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