Visual Art Practice
Visual Art Practice
The Fine Art and Photography Research Group (FAPRG) is an innovative, rigorous and dynamic interdisciplinary academic team of art practitioners, historians and theoreticians.
Expertise within the FAPRG is extensive and stems from the individual academic’s direct professional experience of operating within the contemporary art world in combination with a cultural, historical, philosophical and political awareness that underpins all aspects of their research specialist area.
Fine Art, , Arts Management, Curating and Commissioning, Performance, Sound, Moving Image, Dance, Philosophy, Historical and Contextual understanding of Art.
The Fine Art and Photography Research Group at Æß²ÊÖ±²¥ invites applications to the Midlands 3 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Members of the group and their research interests are listed below:
Fine Art
Dr Carina Brand – carina.brand@dmu.ac.uk
Art Theory, Art History, Political Economy, Post-Operaismo, Feminism, Globalisation, Marxism
Raimi Gbdamosi – raimi.gbadamosi@dmu.ac.uk
Fine Art, Race, Science-Fiction, Art Theory, Comics, Performance
Dr Isabella Streffen - isabella.streffen@dmu.ac.uk
Art and curatorial practice; experimental, hybrid and art writing; cultural history of seeing and technologies of vision; site-specific practice
Alex Roberts – alex.roberts@dmu.ac.uk
Fine Art, painting, drawing, perceived identity, change, encounters – human tangibility, Curation (collaborative research)
Jamie Scott – jdscott@dmu.ac.uk
Contemporary fine art practice; Contemporary Indian art; Curation; Installation; Painting; Lens and digital media
Ruth Sumner – rsumner@dmu.ac.uk
Fine art education; Fine art practices; Painting
Anna Lucas – alucas@dmu.ac.uk
Artists moving image, in particular the use of the camera and editing process as a tool for research. Visual perception. The documentary form in relation to human interaction with landscape, learning institutions and amateur expert knowledge. Diegetic sound. Non-verbal communication and learning
Louise Clarke – lclarke@dmu.ac.uk
Historical and contemporary drawing and print, Fine art practices, curatorial practice
Andy Price – aprice02@dmu.ac.uk
Fine art Practices; 20th & 21st century sculpture; Alternative modes of discourse in the arts
Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT)
Dr Fabrizio Poltronieri – fabrizio.poltronieri@dmu.ac.uk
Creative Technologies, Computer Aesthetics, Computational Art, Algorithmic Art, Generative Art, Art and Technology, New Media Art, Virtual Reality, Vilém Flusser
Photography and Video Arts
Professor Lala Meredith-Vula – lala@dmu.ac.uk
Contemporary photography; video; film; fine art; contemporary visual art; photography and film history; fine art and photography practice; migration, diaspora, identity and belonging; art in Eastern Europe, both contemporary and historic
Matthew Pell – matthew.pell@dmu.ac.uk
Experimental Film, Video Art, Sound Design, Moving Image, Sound Ecology
Martin Shakeshaft – mshakeshaft@dmu.ac.uk
Art and Design Education, Documentary Photography, New Art and Emerging Photography, Landscape photography, Visual Journalism, drone photography
Dave Soden – dsoden@dmu.ac.uk
Still & moving image, live music performance, song composition, recorded sound design and interactive installation
Jo Booth – joanne.booth@dmu.ac.uk
Contemporary Fine Art photography
Anna Lucas – alucas@dmu.ac.uk
Artists’ moving image, use of the camera and editing process as tools for research, visual perception, diegetic sound, the documentary form in relation to human interaction with landscape, learning institutions, amateur expertise, non-verbal communication and learning
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