Role
0.5 Fine Art Lecturer
Joint Co-ordinator ARC (Arts Research Collective)
Stage 2 & 3 studio modules
Stage 3 Critical Studies Module Leader, dissertation supervision
MA/MCAP
PhD supervision: 3 students
Qualifications & background
2007 PhD (Fine Art practice based) University of Plymouth.
1992 Master of Arts, University of York, UK.
1986 Bachelor of Fine Art/History (with Distinction) Exeter University.
Professional membership
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
Roles on external bodies
Editorial board: ujvmc.com/editorial_board
Staff serving as external examiners
2012 Doctoral External Examiner, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
Research interests
The expanded field of painting/video
Research through art practice
Rethinking critical discourses on absence in the visual arts (including rethinking the metaphysics of presence through Jacques Derrida's thinking).
Notions of the spectral, haunting and the indeterminate.
UoP Research group membership
Arts Research Collective
Centre for Media, Art & Design Research (MADr)
Other research
Current research students:
Gabrielle Llewellin: Imaging the Tacit Dimension: a combined philosophy of solitude, stillness and silence.
Jacqui Frost: Loss and stitch.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
2011 PhD Martin Shaw: How is the Severance/Threshold/Return Progression in both Mythology and Modern Wilderness Rites-of-Passage Established Through Metaphor?
Grants & contracts
2002 AHRC Major Award for PhD practice led research.
2000 International career development grant, Visual and Media Arts, Art and Cultural Industries,
Department of Foreign Affairs & International Trade, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada.
1999 Canada Arts Council travel grant for solo exhibition in Minneapolis, US.
1999 Ontario Arts Council exhibition assistance grant for solo exhibition in Chicago, US.
1998 Ontario Arts Council grant, emerging artist.
Other academic activities
Currently co-organising/curating an international exhibition surrounding ideas of the 'specular' with Andy Klunder.
Additional information
A R T W O R K H E L D I N C O L L E C T I O N S I N C L U D I N G:
Coffman Memorial Union, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, US.
Tricia Schweitzer, Curator, University of Minnesota, US.
Tom Gottlieb, art collector, Toronto, Canada.
Private collections in Canada, US and UK.
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