Damian Owen-Board

Staff details

Position Co-Head of the Department
Email d.owen-board (@gold.ac.uk)
Damian Owen-Board

Damian is an artist working in photography, video and installation whose work has been included in solo and group exhibitions both in the UK and internationally. His current work examines the institutionalised space as metaphor for queerness and ‘othering’ – eschewing the everyday banality of these locations by intervening in ways that create an unease and sense of dread.

Previously Damian's practice has explored ideas around the cinematic spectacle and the dichotomy of high and low art through the constructs of genre cinema and questioned the differences between cinematic and photographic narratives in terms of how audiences relate to the truth in storytelling.

Teaching and Supervision

Damian convenes the MA Photography, The Image and Electronic Arts and undergraduate photography on BA Media and Communications.

Research interests

Damian's work is interested in the intersection of queerness with alternative histories, geographies and physical space. His work uses elements of sculpture and installation to make over or shift existing spaces, phasing them with alternative queer worlds and fantasies.

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