Curriculum Vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE:
Dr Lola Frost
Personal Information:
Nationality: British. Date of birth: 13 March 1950
Qualifications:
PhD Visual Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom, 2007
MFA Painting, Rhodes University, South Africa, 1985
BA Graphic Art, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1971
Teaching Posts:
Visiting lecturer, Historical Context of Art and Design, Working Men’s College,
London, 2007-2012
Part time Art Theory Senior Lecturer, Fine Art Department, Technikon Natal, 1995-
2002
Art History and Art Theory lecturer, Fine Art Department, Technikon Natal, 1990-
1995
Drawing Tutor, Architecture Department, University of Natal, 1987-1989
Art History Lecturer, Fine Art Department, Rhodes University, 1986
Exhibitions:
Solo:
Towards Deep and Radiant Time. The Arcade at Bush House: King’s College
London Cultural Programming, Strand, London. 2018
Living the Fold. Cappe, Adriana Cavarero Conference, Edward Street Gallery,
University of Brighton. 2017
A Dilating gaze. Clement House, London School of Economics. 2015
Going South. Somerset House East Wing, King’s College London, 2015
Taking Risks. Somerset House East Wing, King’s College London, 2014
Coming Alive. Frameless Gallery, London, 2013
PhD Degree Show. Goldsmiths College, Visual Art Department, University of
London, 2007
Keynes College Art Gallery. University of Kent at Canterbury. 2000
NSA Gallery. Durban, 1996
Rhodes University Art School Gallery. Grahamstown, 1996
Technikon Natal Art Gallery. Durban, 1993
Thompson Gallery. Johannesburg, 1993
Natal Society of the Arts. Durban, 1987
1820 Settlers Museum. Grahamstown, 1981
Group:
Reconciliations: Knapp Gallery, Regents Park University, London. 2018/19
Carnivale curate-a-space: Durban Art Gallery. 2017
Geohumanities online exhibition. 2016. https://geohumanities.net/2016/06/08/lola-frost/
LGBT Art Trail. Keynes College, University of Kent at Canterbury. 2015
1910 – 2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective. Iziko South African National Gallery.
Cape Town, 2010
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. London, 1997
Cape Town Triennale. Cape Town, 1991
Sud del Mundo. Cape Town and Johannesburg, 1990
Collections:
Durban Art Gallery: Johannesburg Art Gallery: Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg:
King George V Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth: Newcastle Carnegie Art Gallery, Kwa-
Zulu Natal: Rhodes University Alumni Collection: University of Stellenbosch
Collection: University of Natal Collection.
Commissions:
Portrait of Archbishop Hurley: Vice Chancellor of the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal,
1995
Portrait of Tex Harris: US Consul, 1992
Publications:
Going South: Traversal and Attunement in Painting. GeoHumanities Journal, Taylor
and Francis, London and New York. 2015.
‘Compassion as Risk’ in The Politics of Compassion. eds. Michael Ure and Mervyn
Frost, Routledge, London, 2014
Aesthetics and Politics. Global Society, Vol.24, No3, Routledge, London. July 2010
Negativity in Painting, PhD thesis, Senate House Library, University of London.
London 2007
Jeremy Wafer Artist’s Book. David Krut Publishing. Johannesburg 2001
Checking one another’s credentials in Grey Areas: Representation, Identity and
Politics in Contemporary South Africa. eds. Brenda Atkinson and Candice Breitz,
Chalkham Hill Press. Johannesburg, 1999
Papers and Public Lectures:
An ethics of difference: from de-territorialising the sublime to contesting drone
warfare? BISA conference paper. June 2019.
Lab Talks KZNSA: Masterclass Lola Frost. April 2019.
The Flesh of the World. Dr Anna Marazuela Kim in conversation with Lola
Frost and Edmund Clark for the 2017/18 IAS Vulnerability Series at
UCL. April 2018.
Cognitive failures in art. Failure and Denial in World Politics: Millennium Conference,
London School of Economics. 18 October 2015.
Resilience in painting: Gender Recalled Workshop. Department of Media, Culture
and Creative Industries, King’s College London. 30 June 2015.
Aesthetic Risk: an artist’s perspective. Values of art Conference: Humanities
Research Centre. Department of Philosophy, Sheffield University. 20 June 2015.
Going South: traversal and attunement in painting. Spaces of Attunement: Life,
Matter and the Dance of Encounters. Cardiff University. 30 March 2015
The Sublime South: feminist identities and aesthetic reflexivity in contemporary
South African art. ISA Presidential Panel: Global IR and Regional Worlds: A New
Agenda for International Feminist IR Today. New Orleans. 19 February 2015
Risk, Sexuality and Politics: Leverhulme Artist in Residence collaboration with Prof
Marysia Zalewski, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. 11 February
2015
Labial Politics: Risk, Sexuality and Politics in Art. LGBT Art trail, Keynes College,
University of Kent at Canterbury. 9 February 2015
Underrating Risks? Piano performance by Gareth Owen of Schubert’s Sonata in a
minor D784 and Leverhulme Artist in Residence collaboration with Prof Ned Lebow,
Department of Music, King’s College London. 3 December 2014
Drones, Ethics, Aesthetics and Risk. Artist in Residence and panel discussion for
Technological Innovation and Challenges to International Law. Safra Lecture
Theatre, King’s College London. 24 November 2014
Cybernetic Risk and Aesthetic Free Play: Leverhulme Artist in Residence
collaboration with Prof Thomas Rid. Department of War Studies, King’s College
London. 3 November 2014
Aesthetic Risk and Security Risks: Leverhulme Artist in Residence collaboration with
Dr Claudia Aradau. Somerset House East Wing, King’s College London. 22 October
2014
Whose Sublime: Aesthetics and the International. What does the aesthetic want from
us and IR? BISA Art &Politics Working Group Workshop. Warwick University. 1
September 2014
Aesthetic Free Play and Becoming. Toward New Global Imaginaries: Feminist
Thinking on Creativity and Imagination as Social Resources. ISA Conference,
Montreal, Canada, March 2011 and also at the Critical Political Theory Conference,
Essex University, June 2011
Free Play and Becoming. Lecture at the Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape
Town, South Africa. 2011
The Political Life of Art. Symposium: Aesthetics and Politics, University of Jyvaskyla,
Finland, June 2010
Compassion and Politics. Joint paper at workshop on Compassion and Politics.
Monash University, Prato, Italy. 2009
Aesthetics and Politics. Workshop for Aesthetics and International Relations:
Exploring the Frontiers of Visual and Cultural Politics. Birmingham University, UK.
2009
Art’s Double Politics. Visual and Performing Arts Department, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2009
Art and the Political. ‘Challenge’ Workshop, Luberon, France, 2008
Residencies:
Leverhulme Artist in Residence, War Studies, King’s College London, September
2014 to June 2015