People in the School of Art
In this section
Staff list
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.
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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.
Dr Vikki Chalklin
Vikki is a writer, performer, scholar, and educator interested in bodies, affects, and queer culture.
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Dr Sarah Charalambides
Sarah's research engages conceptual reconfigurations of the precarious in art and visual culture.
Dr John Chilver
John Chilver is an artist and writer who works with painting, film and text.
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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 Coutts is an artist and writer working with video, 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.
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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
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Adam Gallagher
Adam is an artist, organiser and educator, working across performance, text, sculpture, sound, collaboration and events.
Carle Gent
Carle 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.
Chris Hammond
Chris’ practice as a curator and artist is grounded in the core structure and strategies of the gallery.
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
Professor Stephen Johnstone
Stephen’s work is concerned with the relationship between pre-cinematic spectacle, immersive space and abstract film.
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.
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.
Simon Martin
Simon’s work reflects on material culture, with an interest in how we understand ourselves through social structures.
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 London-based artist and filmmaker.
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.
Dr Sadie Murdoch
Sadie deploys chromatic anomalies and unstable readings to provide an insight into notions of ‘otherness’.
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.
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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.
Gail Pickering
Gail’s work is primarily time-based, including moving image, performance and text.
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, the lived environment, and climate 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.
Grace Schwindt
Grace’s recent solo exhibitions took place at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver and Site Gallery in Sheffield.
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.
Jemima Stehli
Jemima's recent solo exhibitions have been in London, Milan, Lisbon and Vienna.
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
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Dr Beny Wagner
Nina Wakeford
Nina makes artworks which are often initiated by encounters with feminist, LGBT and queer histories or archives
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.
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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.
