Art staff

Professor Michael Archer

Michael is a critic and writer on modern and contemporary art, teaching critical studies, and art and design history.

David Batchelor

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.

Bonnie Camplin

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

Dr Ele Carpenter

Ele is a curator and writer in politicised art and social networks of making.

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 John Chilver

John artwork and writing coalesce around problems of agency, leading him to philosophies of the event and 'the new'.

Lucy Clout

Lucy’s work has featured in solo exhibitions including Limoncello London, CCA Glasgow, and IPS Birmingham.

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.

Nick Crowe

Nick’s work primarily concerns the languages of power, its grammar and its rhetoric.

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Paul utilises outdated or obsolete computer technologies to perform specialist interventions in the digital art medium.

Melissa Gordon

Dr Catherine Grant

Catherine is currently researching the re-enactment of histories of feminism in contemporary art.

Dr Ros Gray

Ros explores the trajectories of militant filmmaking in relation to liberation struggles and revolutionary movements.

Chris Hammond

Chris’ practice as a curator and artist is grounded in the core structure and strategies of the gallery.

Dr Isobel Harbison

Isobel Harbison is an art critic, an art historian and Lecturer (Critical Studies) in Art, in the Art Department at Goldsmiths.

Andy Harper

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

Ian Hunt

Ian teaches in fields of contemporary art, from gender and generational theory to art history and social history.

Professor Stephen Johnstone

Stephen’s work is concerned with the relationship between pre-cinematic spectacle, immersive space and abstract film.

Alison Jones

Alison paintings are figurative physical and gestural, and are imbued with questions of feminism and criticality.

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.

Kristen Kreider

Kristen is a writer and artist, whose research stems from an interest in the poetics of thought and its materialization.

Phillip Lai

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

David Mabb

David is an artist working with appropriated imagery to rethink political implications in modern art and design history.

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.

Dawn Mellor

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

Dr. Sadie Murdoch

Sadie deploys chromatic anomalies and unstable readings to provide an insight into notions of ‘otherness’.

Rosalind Nashashibi

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.

Kirsty Ogg

Kirsty is Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, where she has worked on a number of exhibitions and related publications.

Saskia Olde Wolbers

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

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.

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.

Dr Edgar Schmitz

Edgar is an artist and lecturer in critical studies at Goldsmiths, he has also written extensively on contemporary art.

Grace Schwindt

Grace’s recent solo exhibitions took place at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver and Site Gallery in Sheffield.

Lindsay Seers

Lindsay's work takes the form of performances, which narrate the histories of her strange transformations.

Ben Seymour

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

Dr Simon Sheikh

Simon researches the modalities and potentialities of curating, relating to exhibition-making and political imaginaries.

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.

Milly Thompson

Milly uses wall-sculpture/painting, print, text and performance to imagine the relation between commodity and pleasure.

Bernard Walsh

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

Roxy Walsh

Roxy’s wall paintings are simple geometric shapes whose forms/lines/edges are extrapolated from architectural oddities.

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.

Dr Gilda Williams

Gilda is interested in the collective process among artists, curators, writers, academics, collectors, and museums.