Professor Tara Page

Staff details

Tara explores making and learning with new materialist theories using practice and empirical methods and methodologies.

I am a researcher, artist, pedagogue and Professor of Pedagogy and Praxis. I explore the praxis entanglements of making and learning underpinned with new materialist theories using empirical, embodied and material practice research methods and methodologies. I conceive pedagogy as an open, continuously made and remade praxis that is embodied, emplaced, material, generative, emancipatory, enabling social and educational change.

Through and with practice (artistic and pedagogic) research, I bring creative philosophy together with practice and theory, advancing new ways of understanding the cultural politics of making objects and events and how materials, processes, pedagogies and theory can enable the questioning and disruption of many forms of dominance that exist in our society.

I am leading the Goldsmiths partnership with Arts Council England for the national delivery of the learning programme for the Artsmark Award.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD. Goldsmiths University of London. UK. 2012
  • MEd (Research). Queensland University of Technology. AUS. 2000
  • PGDip (Secondary). Queensland University of Technology. AUS. 1995
  • BA Visual Arts. Queensland University of Technology. AUS. 1994. 1994

Teaching and supervision

I contribute to the Goldsmiths Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, the MA Designing Education(MADE), the MA Arts and Learning (MAAL), Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE: Art and Design- Secondary-Primary), and the BA Education (BAE) programmes. I was also a teaching fellow at ArtEZ, Netherlands from 2016-2019.

I supervise and examine PhDs in the areas of practice research and empirical research, including:
Performance and aesthetics
Bodies and the sensory- embodiment
Learning communities
Placemaking and belonging
Pedagogy in formal and informal contexts
Critical and creative pedagogies
Materiality of pedagogy

Research interests

My practice research, artistic-pedagogic, examines the importance of ‘where’ to who we are and how we are and also how the presence and absence of matter teaches us (Page, 2021, 2020; 2020; 2019; 2014; 2015 with Johnston and Sayers). I conceive pedagogy as an open, continuously made and remade praxis that is embodied, placed, material, generative, emancipatory, caring and enables social and educational change (Page, 2019).

Bringing together creative philosophy with practice and theory, individually and collaboratively, my research assemblages advance new ways of understanding the cultural politics of making, objects and events and how materials, processes, pedagogies and theory can enable the questioning and disruption of many forms of dominance that exist in our society (with Hickey-Moody (2015); with Coleman and Palmer (2019).

Publications and research outputs

Book

Page, Tara. 2020. Placemaking. A new materialist theory of pedagogy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474428774

Adams, Jeff N. P.; Worwood, Kelly; Atkinson, Dennis; Dash, Paul; Herne, Steve and Page, Tara. 2008. Teaching through contemporary art: a report on innovative practices in the classroom. London: Tate Publishing. ISBN 978 1 85437 812 5

Edited Book

Hickey Moody, Anna and Page, Tara, eds. 2015. Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms. Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN 978-1783484874

Hickey-Moody, Anna Catherine and Page, Tara, eds. 2015. Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms. London: Rowman and Littlefield International. ISBN ISBN 9781783484867

Hickey Moody, Anna and Page, Tara, eds. 2015. Practice, Pedagogy, Resistance: A New Materialism. London: Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN 978-1783484867

Edited Journal

Page, Tara, ed. 2023. With–In Bodies: Research Assemblages of the Sensory and the Embodied, Humanities, . 2076-0787

Coleman, Rebecca; Page, Tara and Palmer, Helen, eds. 2019. Feminist New Materialist Practice: The Mattering of Methods. Special Issue of MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, Summer(4).

Atkinson, Dennis; Adams, Jeff N. P.; Dash, Paul; Herne, Steve and Page, Tara, eds. 2009. International Journal of Art and Design Education, International Journal Of Art & Design Education, .

Book Section

Hickey Moody, Anna and Page, Tara. 2015. Making Matter Matter. In: Anna Hickey Moody and Tara Page, eds. Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms. London: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781783484867

Kipling, Amanda and Hickey-Moody, Anna Catherine. 2015. The Practice of Dorothy Heathcote as a Pedagogy of Resistance. In: Anna Hickey Moody and Tara Page, eds. Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms. London: Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-1783484874

Sayers, Esther. 2015. From Art Appreciation to Pedagogies of Dissent: Gallery Education Rethinks the Inclusion Agenda. In: Anna Hickey Moody and Tara Page, eds. Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms. London: Rowman and Littlefield.

Article

Coleman, Rebecca; Page, Tara and Palmer, Helen. 2019. Introduction. Feminist New Materialist Practice: The Mattering of Methods. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, Summer(4), pp. 1-10.

Page, Tara. 2019. Embodied poetic methods to learn placemaking. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, Summer(4), pp. 1-9.

Page, Tara. 2018. Teaching and learning with matter. Arts, 7(4), ISSN 2076-0752

Conference or Workshop Item

Johnston, John; Pitfield, Maggie; Macleroy Obied, Vicky and Page, Tara. 2011. 'Explore The Big Draw'. In: Explore The Big Draw. Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom.

Page, Tara; Pitfield, Maggie; Johnston, John and Macleroy Obied, Vicky. 2010. 'Blurring'. In: Blurring. Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom.

Johnston, John and Page, Tara. 2009. 'GoldKing'. In: GoldKing. Goldsmiths, London, United Kingdom.

Digital

Page, Tara. 2021. bruise. body with bar [image-text].

Page, Tara. 2019. sounding. body with bar-plates-rack.

Film/Video

Page, Tara. 2024. sandcastles. body with sand with water.

Page, Tara. 2014. The writing is on the walls.

Page, Tara. 2009. Statement field.

Performance

Page, Tara. 2014. Places and Ways. In: "Arts praxis research", 310NXRd., United Kingdom, 27th-30th May 2014.

Page, Tara. 2014. Places and Ways. In: "Arts Praxis Research", 310NXRd., United Kingdom, 27th-30th May 2014.

Professional Activity

Page, Tara. 1988. National Society for Education through Art and Design (NSEAD) Publications Board Member.

Report

Crowther, Anthony; Martins, Sara; Page, Tara; Rose Glowacki, Becca and Steer, Tom. 2022. Rapid Research and Analysis of Local Cultural Education Partnerships. Project Report. Arts Council England, Manchester.

Dash, Paul; Adams, Jeff N. P.; Atkinson, Dennis; Herne, Steve and Page, Tara. 2004. Teaching, Learning and Communicating Through Contemporary Art Practices. Project Report. Tate Modern.

Thesis

Page, Tara. 2012. Place and belonging: ways of knowing and learning in the Australian bush. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London

Professional projects

Goldsmiths, University of London is the new national delivery partner for Arts Council England’s Artsmark award. This partnership brings Goldsmiths’ expertise as a leader in teacher training, creativity, arts and culture to Artsmark: the only creative quality standard for schools and education settings, which, for over 20 years, has helped schools to deliver better creative and cultural education.

I am leading the Goldsmiths team to deliver a revised programme that will help schools and other learning settings embed culture and creativity in their work and support the Arts Council in shaping creative and cultural education across England.

Artsmark currently works with nearly 4,000 schools nationwide, providing teacher training, resources to help schools develop their arts curricula, and support and guidance from organisations in the professional cultural sector.

2019-2023 I was the Academic Director of International Development and Academic Partnerships (IDAP). I was responsible for establishing and managing Goldsmiths' domestic and transnational education (TNE) academic partnerships including validation, franchise, dual/joint degrees and partner-supported delivery of Goldsmiths' degree programmes.

I examine, assess and review:
Grant applications (Research Council of KU Leuven-Belgium and the Austrian Science Fund- 'Richter-PEEK- for arts-based research and the Swiss National Science Foundation SPARK funding scheme- to develop and test novel and unconventional scientific approaches, methods, theories and ideas)

Academic programmes (Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam)

PhD submissions (Europe, UK, Australia)

Articles (MATTER: Journal of New Materialist Research; Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, Culture and Society; MAI: Feminism & Visual Cultures and Social Sciences, Arts, European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education) and

Monograph manuscripts and proposals (Routledge, Edinburgh University Press)