Heidi Morstang

Role

Lecturer in photography

Convener Land/Water and the Visual Arts Research Group

2nd Year co-ordinator

Dissertation supervisor

PhD supervisor

Personal tutor

Module leader: DOCU 501 (Documentary Moving Image), PHO 512 (Collaborative Practice), PHO 514 (Developing Practice), PHO 516 (Professional Futures)

Heidi C Morstang works with moving image, photography and experimental documentary films. Her work explores the significance of landscape; she is interested in the social, cultural, environmental and archaeological histories embedded in landscapes. She uses images to explore and offer insight into the complex and subtle tensions and conflicts that characterise places, however beautiful our environment might appear. The majority of her work is created in the Nordic Arctic region, often in collaboration with scientists.

She has exhibited her photographic work and screened her films internationally since 1995. Her work is represented in several private and public collections.

She lectures in photography at University of Plymouth, where she convenes the Land/Water and the Visual Arts Research Group, and contributes frequently to Moving Image Arts Research Group, and the Photography Research Group (The Arts Institute)

Qualifications

2009:            
Postgraduate Certificate: Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Plymouth

1999-2001:                     
MA Documentary Photography with Distinction, University of Wales College, Newport

1996-1999:                     
BA (hons) Documentary Photography, First Class Honours Degree, University of Wales College, Newport

1995:                               
Art History, University of Oslo

1991:                               
Examen Philosophicum, University of Oslo

Professional membership

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Member of the Society of Fine Art Photographers, Norway (FFF)