Dr Paul Clements BA MA PhD

Staff details

Position

Lecturer

Department

Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship

Email

p.clements (@gold.ac.uk)

Paul is a lecturer in arts and cultural policy, spending many years working with marginalised communities.

Paul Clements is a lecturer in arts and cultural policy. He has spent many years working with excluded communities and formerly taught in Adult Education. More recently he has lectured in Higher Education for the Open University, Birkbeck College and Londonmet University covering cultural theory and policy as well as popular culture and community arts. His career has been varied and has included a range of roles and experiences: youth worker, teacher of disturbed prisoners, government interviewer, prison librarian, community musician, visual artist, astrologer and moderator/evaluator for arts programmes. He still works as a visual artist specialising in commissions for healthcare environments and private consumption.

Teaching and supervision

MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy

Research interests

These relate to cultural policy and theory, particularly the relationship between social and cultural inclusion/exclusion, the instrumental use of the arts and how cultural value is determined, also the relationship between individual artists and society more generally. Besides community arts forms and practices his interests also cover popular culture and its articulation with ‘high’ culture. This includes a more general analysis of leisure space and the global impact of mass culture.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Clements, Paul. 2020. The Outsider, Art and Humour. New York/Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367468224

Clements, Paul. 2016. The Creative Underground: Art, Politics and Everyday Life. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781315714530

Clements, Paul. 2013. Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature and the Beat Movement. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415807593

Book Section

Clements, Paul. 2017. The construction of post-communist ideologies and re-branding of Budapest: the case study of Statue Park Museum. In: Martin Zebracki and Joni M. Palmer, eds. Public Art Encounters: Art, Space and Identity. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 51-69. ISBN 9781472468796

Clements, Paul. 2011. ‘The rehabilitative role of arts education in prison: accommodation or enlightenment?’. In: Felicity Allen, ed. Education. Documents of Contemporary Art. London: Whitechapel Gallery. ISBN 978-0854881925

Article

Clements, Paul. 2020. Astrology, modernity and the project of self-identity. Culture and Religion, 21(3), pp. 259-279. ISSN 1475-5610

Clements, Paul. 2017. Highgate Cemetery heterotopia: A Creative Counterpublic Space. Space and Culture, 20(4), pp. 470-484. ISSN 1206-3312

Clements, Paul. 2014. The Consumption of Communism: Changing Representations of Statue Park Museum and Budapest. Art & the Public Sphere, 2(1-3), pp. 73-86. ISSN 2042-793X