Staff Profile

I am an artist working across art and architecture. I take an interdisciplinary approach and have particular interests in geography, anthropology and material culture.

I work with art-making as a speculative architectural practice. In my current role I am the Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Design-led Architectural Research with ARC Architectural Research Collaborative in APL. I have a PhD by Design in Art and Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

I am a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and have worked as an artist and curator.

My current research is titled Ruskin's Storm-Cloud and Tyndall's Floating Matter a design-led project involving the construction of large-scale architectural models out of watercolour on paper to examine museum design with regards to microclimates, climate change, and conservation with historical research into John Ruskin's The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1881) and the nineteenth century climate scientist John Tyndall’s research into the physical properties of air.

Previous research during my PhD was titled No More Elsewhere: Antarctica through the Archive of the Edward Wilson (1872-1912) Watercolours. I took the life and work of the Antarctic explorer Wilson as a medium through which to refract practices of observation in art, anthropology and geography so to consider current questions about our human relation to environment and climate. I paid particular attention to the open-air watercolour practice of Wilson in Antarctica.

I have exhibited as an artist and am represented by Danielle Arnaud in London.  I also curate shows. Most recently I co-curated the national touring exhibition TOPOPHOBIA: Fear of Place in Contemporary Art in 2012, 

• Gould PE. Conjunction and Incongruity: Drawing Matter Open Day Saturday 30 September 2017, Drawing Matter Archive, Shatwell Studios, Somerset. ARQ 2018, 22(1), 91-95.
• Gould PE. Alpine Architecture. London: London Art Fair, 2018.
• Gould PE. Antarctica through Art and the Archive: The Polar Expeditions of Edward Wilson. Bloomsbury, 2019. In Preparation.
• Gould PE. Antarctica, the Archive and Anamorphic Landscapes: Oblique approaches to Architecture through Art. inForma 2018, 11, 44-47.
• Gould PE. Ruskin’s Storm-Cloud and Tyndall’s Blue Sky: new materialist diffractions of nineteenth century atmospheres. In: Maura Coughlin, Emily Gephart, ed. Ecocriticism and The Anthropocene in Nineteenth Century Art and Culture. Routledge, 2019. In Preparation.
• Gould PE. Architecture for an Extinct Planet. New York, USA: VOLTA2017, New York, NY, 2017.
• Gould PE. Manifesto for an Architecture of Atmospheres. Vienna, Austria: Pavilion of the Korea Kulturhaus, 2017.
• Gould P. Manifesto for an Architecture of Atmospheres. Vienna, Austria: Korean Cultural Institute, Donau Park, 2017.
• Gould PE. Observation Hill, 2012, shown in group show Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017. Bristol: Royal West of England Academy, 2017.
• Gould PE. Open Air and Air Conditioning: Antarctica through the Archive. In: Breath, Flight and Atmosphere: The Theme of Air in British Culture. 2017, Bristol, UK.
• Gould PE. No More Elsewhere: Antarctica through the Archive of the Edward Wilson (1872-1912) Watercolours. In: International Conference of Historical Geographers 2015. 2015, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London.
• Gould PE. Penguin Pool. London, UK: Danielle Arnaud, 2015.
• Gould PE. No More Elsewhere. London: Danielle Arnaud, 2013. Submitted.
• Gould PE, Eggebert AJ. TOPOPHOBIA: Fear of Place in Contemporary Art. London: Eggebert-and-Gould, 2012.
• Gould PE. Art and Mourning in an Antarctic Landscape. In: Maddrell,A;Sidaway,JD, ed. Deathscapes:Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance. Routledge, 2010.
• Gould PE. Breakfast at the Beauty Spot. In: Akerman, J, Daly,E, ed. The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories. London: Serpent's Tail, 2007, pp.73-82.