The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Anya's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Anya
Associate Professor (Reader) in Art and Moving ImageProgramme Leader MA Contemporary Art Practice
Research Area Lead (Art)
Anya Lewin is an American artist, educator and researcher based in the UK. Prior to working in academia, she had jobs in diverse fields ranging from shepherding (she never lost a sheep) to robotics (sorting robot parts in a basement) to art and community education.
She has a PhD (practice based) from Dartington College of Art and an MA in Arts and Humanities as well as an MA in English from SUNY at Buffalo where she studied poetics with Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley and Susan Howe and Media Art with Tony Conrad. She has been the recipient of three Arts Council England Grants for the Arts and several international residencies. Her works, both individual and collaborative, have been exhibited and screened in such places as Beijing, Bristol, Bulgaria, Cuba,Los Angeles, Plymouth, Siberia, Belfast, New York, San Francisco, Southampton and London.
Her projects often reflect her own personal history, which includes stories of immigration, translations from multiple languages, and fictional connections to real events. www.imadeitup.info
Supervised Research Degrees
James Brown, PhD, Peter Fuller, Modern Painters and the Sensation exhibition. 2018 DOSSteven Paige, PhD, Meeting the Archive Through an Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice 2019 2nd Supervisor
Beth Emily Richards, PhD, "Poor Copy": Fan Practices and Producerly Art Making 2020 2nd Supervisor
Veronica Fazzio, PhD, Social Sculpture: A Plastic Process of Mutual Transformation 2020 DOS
Luisa Greenfield, PhD, "The Disquieting Image: Retracing the filmmaking of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub" 2022 DOS
Emilio Chapela, PhD, "An Earthly Response to Movement: Moving images diffracted through New Materialism" 2022 DOS
Raul Alvarez Barcelona, PhD, ‘Film Here Now: Daily Filmmaking and the Path to Well-being" 2023 DOS
Teaching
Moving imageNarrative in artist film
Participatory practice
Performance (particularly to camera)
Approaches to Artistic Research
Contact Anya
Room 109, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 585028
anya.lewin@plymouth.ac.uk
