Kimberley Richards: Autobiographical Art and the Influence of Psychological and Social Constructs

This episode features a conversation with Kimberly Richards, a final year undergraduate student on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Cardiff School of Art & Design, about their final year research which explores the influence of sociological theories on representations of the self in art.

In conversation with Kimberly is Dr Natasha Mayo.

You can find out more about Kimberly’s work via her website: www.kimberlyrichards.art or via Instagram @kimberlyrichards_art

If you would like to follow up on some of the ideas discussed in this episode you may find the following resources interesting:

• Erving Goffman, the presentation of self in every day life Penguin Books, 1959.


• Sociology of Art : A Reader, edited by Jeremy Tanner, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003.


• Autobiographical artist – Louise Bourgeois


• Turner, R. H. (1976). The real self: from institution to impulse.