People in the School of Art

Dr Alice Andrews

Alice's research is concerned with questions of dis/ability, response-ability, and practices of self in complex systems

Barby Asante

Artist/ Curator/Researcher working in performance, social Practice, Black Feminism, decoloniality, memory and place

Louise Ashcroft

Humorously anarchic stories about disrupting social norms and power structures, often as performance/video/animation

Dr Manca Bajec

Manca is a researcher, and artist whose interdisciplinary work is situated in the realm of socio-politics.

Becky Beasley

Becky's work has been featured in solo exhibitions in London, Milan, New York, Lisbon and Antwerp.

Simon Bedwell

Simon’s work has generally been characterised by a sprawling, mouthy, sensuous version of institutional critique.

Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom

Working across mediums, predominantly working with sound, photography, video & live performances.

Bonnie Camplin

As an artist, Bonnie has featured in solo exhibitions at the Tate Britain, Cabinet and the Chisenhale Gallery in London.

Dr Claire Makhlouf Carter

Carter has performed in a range of sites from art openings, cross-channel ferries, seminars, conferences and a welding tent in a chili festival.

Alice Channer

Alice Channer is an artist working with sculpture.

Dr Sarah Charalambides

Sarah's research engages conceptual reconfigurations of the precarious in art and visual culture.

Paul Clinton

Paul Clinton investigates how the politics of sexuality and gender have shaped contemporary art practice.

Lucy Clout

Lucy is an artist working primarily in video. Her practice examines the embodied experience of language, in particular m

Dr Anna Colin

Anna's practice encompasses the curatorial, the pedagogical, the social and the ecological.

Dr Kirsten Cooke

Curatorial practice as research, politics of mediation and infrastructure space, queer ecologies

Marion Coutts

Marion is an artist and writer, working with found objects, digital video, film, drawing, sound, text and photography.

Alison Craighead

Alison collaboratively researches how global communications networks transform the way we understand the world.

Dr Nina Danino

Dr Nina Danino is an artist and filmmaker, making films centred on self-inscription, the feminine and the subjective voice.

Paul B. Davis

Paul utilises outdated or obsolete computer technologies to perform specialist interventions in the digital art medium.

Dr Jenny Doussan

Jenny is interested in the convergence of language and image in art, media and politics.

Dr Sonya Dyer

Sonya's work and research reimagines where the centre is located in fictional narratives of the future.

Ali Eisa

Ali is an artist working with installation, found objects, photography, collaborative and socially engaged practice

Dr Başak Ertür

Dr Kodwo Eshun

Dr Kodwo Eshun specialises in Black Studies, Anglophone Pan-Africanisms, the essay film and diasporic futurisms.

Adham Faramawy

Adham Faramawy's work spans media including video, performance, sculpture, painting, and print.

Dr Anthony Faramelli

Lecturer in Visual Cultures and the Programme Leader for the MRes and MPhil/PhD in Visual Cultures programmes

Dr Laura Grace Ford

Laura Grace Ford is a multidisciplinary artist.

Adam Gallagher

Adam is an artist, organiser and educator, working across performance, text, sculpture, sound, collaboration and events.

Carl Gent

Carl Gent is an artist working in sculpture, performance, sound and text.

Diana Georgiou

Diana is a writer and independent cultural programmer working with feminist, queer and decolonial art practices.

Lily German

Lily's research explores the shared fragilities and tactility of wet clay, ceramic and the voice.

Dr Janna Graham

Dr Janna Graham studies legacies of colonialism in neoliberal spaces, institutions and modes of publicity.

Dr Ros Gray

Ros's engagement with art, ecology and climate justice involves collaborations with artists, scientists and activists.

Dr S Ayesha Hameed

Ayesha Hameed explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figures of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Dr Isobel Harbison

Dr Isobel Harbison is an art historian and writer

Andy Harper

Andy’s work has been featured at the Newlyn Art Gallery in Cornwall, Danese in New York, Morgen Contemporary in Berlin.

JJ Johnson

Dr Hannah Catherine Jones

HCJ is a multidisciplinary artist and multi-instrumentalist broadcasting beyond institutional walls.

Paul D Jones

Paul is an artist and curator working across the fields of drawing, sculpture, print-making, painting and animation.

Dr Susan Kelly

Susan is a writer, artist, organiser and educator, who researches the relationships between art and micropolitics.

Janice Kerbel

Janice works with a range of material including print, type, audio recording and, more recently, light.

Richard Kirwan

Richard’s practice incorporates painting, digital and analogue printmaking, coupled with architectural intervention.

Phillip Lai

Phillip works with objects and sculpture, exhibiting in London, Glasgow, Turin, Berlin and Hong Kong.

Chooc Ly Tan

multidisciplinary artist/DJ/music & cultural producer

David Mabb

David Mabb

Dr Adnan Madani

Contemporary South Asia and its diaspora, Islamic philosophy, race, curating, theories of justice, globalisation

Dr Suhail Malik

Suhail’s research is on the theme of invention in contemporary European philosophy and critical theory.

Dr Sam McAuliffe

Sam’s research is in modern European philosophy and critical theory, with an emphasis on art and aesthetics.

Sophio Medoidze

Sophio Medoidze is a Georgian artist and filmmaker working across moving image, photography, performance, and writing.

Bod Mellor

Bod’s recent group exhibitions include shows at MOT International and Victoria Miro Gallery in London.

Dr Helge Mooshammer

Helge focusses on the entanglement of artistic and spatial practices across social, political and economic landscapes.

Peter Mörtenböck

Professor Michael Newman

Michael is Professor of art writing and has curated exhibitions in Toronto, New York, Edinburgh and London.

Professor Richard Noble

Richard interests are the critical evaluation of contemporary art production and the interrelation of art and politics.

Dr Joseph Noonan-Ganley

Joseph works across moving image, sculpture, performance and text to explore how identity is collaboratively made.

Professor Simon O'Sullivan

Simon is a theorist and artist working at the intersection of contemporary art practice, performance and philosophy.

Kirsty Ogg

Kirsty is interested in the intersection of emerging art practice, arts education and access.

Saskia Olde Wolbers

Saskia is a filmmaker using fictional biographies to explore themes of anecdotal science and ecological neuroses.

Lola Olufemi

is a black feminist writer, curator, researcher and organiser.

Jacqueline Pennell

Installation and sculpture is the focus of Jacqueline's work, which investigates negotiations of space.

Dr Nuria Querol

Writer and occasional curator, researching global collaborations and contemporary art in Asia.

Dr Manuel Ramos

Manuel’s work engages with the interrelation between the political and the image/sound pair. He is on leave for 2024/25.

Helena Reckitt

Helena is a curator and researcher with international experience developing curatorial and critical research projects.

Professor Andrew Renton

Andrew works as a writer and curator, interested in the languages that might be possible in response to the work of art.

Rachel Reupke

Rachel Reupke is an artist working with film and animation.

Dr Irene Revell

Irene is a curator, writer and researcher who works with artists across sound, text, performance and moving image.

Dr Elle Reynolds

Elle works with materials to explore alternative pedagogies, collaborative and informal spaces for learning.

Dr Wood Roberdeau

My ongoing work concentrates on art practices that address ecology, environment, and social consciousness.

Dr Emily Rosamond

Emily's research explores the implications of financialization and metrification for online identity and selfhood.

Dr Ghalya Saadawi

My interests range across art, political economy, witnessing and testimony, law and psychoanalysis. On leave for 2024/26

Dr Ilona Sagar

Ilona Sagar is an artist and researcher working across moving-image, installation, performance and publication.

Astrid Schmetterling

Astrid Schmetterling's research focuses on the relation between history, culture and memory.

Dr Edgar Schmitz

Edgar Schmitz works on developing modes of withdrawal, (in)animacy, and the materialities of the choreographic.

Professor Susan Schuppli

Susan uses media artefacts in her investigative processes to explore contemporary conflict and state violence.

Sophie Seita

Sophie Seita works with language as a material across performance, video, sound, textiles, books, and installations.

Ben Seymour

Ben’s principle areas of research are the relationship between urban regeneration, gentrification and culture.

Sophie Sleigh-Johnson

Performatively bringing popular culture into communion with magic, place and esoterica

Kate Smith

Kate Smith's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Matts Gallery and MOCO in London.

Jol Thoms

Dr Lynn Turner

Lynn explores how animal and sexual differences matter in visual and aural naturecultures

Dr Christina Varvia

Christina uses forensic architecture techniques and feminist epistemologies to investigate political conditions.

Dr Becca Voelcker

Global political cinemas; ecofeminism; colonial-capital-climate entanglements; Japan; diasporas; land.

Dr Lenka Vráblíková

Lenka works in transnational feminisms and political ecology, particularly in the field of feminist visual ethnomycology

Dr Beny Wagner

Bernard Walsh

Bernard is an artist whose practice has evolved through a continuous play with words, still and moving images.

Roxy Walsh

Roxy Walsh, Programme leader BA Fine Art and History of Art (Studio), Senior Lecturer in Art.

Dr Scott Wark

Scott researches digital culture and the intersection of race and digital technology.

Dr Frank Wasser

Frank Wasser is an Irish artist working in performance, sculpture, moving image, exhibition making and publishing.

Professor Eyal Weizman

In his research, Eyal forensically examines human rights violations using architectural, visual and aural techniques.

Annie Whiles

Annie works with pictorial devices to allow for a humorous exchange between the quotidian and the miraculous.

Laura White

Laura focusses on interactions with materials and objects, exploring ideas of value, profile, association, and meaning.

Michelle Williams Gamaker

Michelle Williams Gamaker is a moving image and performance artist based in London.

Rehana Zaman

Rehana is an artist and filmmaker

Deniz Ünal