School of Arts & Humanities

Ignacio Acosta is an artist and researcher working in territories under pressure from extractive industries. His multi-layered collaborative practice and spatial installations seek to connect audiences with these complex but critical concerns.

Jesse is an artist working in a variety of media, exhibiting regularly in solo and group projects hosted by institutions, museums and commercial galleries worldwide.

Felicity is an artist of international standing, recognised for her research into large-scale ceramics.

Jordan is a visual artist, filmmaker and Reader in Time-based Media at the Royal College of Art.

Gemma is an interdisciplinary scholar, writer and curator who works on the intersection of modern and contemporary art and literature with questions of health and care.

Rut's work as an artist and photographer concerns the representation of the city and the phenomenon of the urban, combining formats from large-scale photographic work.

Jonathan Boyd is a multi-award-winning artist, jeweller and academic working in a variety of materials, specialising in conceptual and narrative-led artworks. His research focuses on exploring the relationships of language and object.

Dr Heike Brachlow is an internationally recognised artist whose work focuses on the interaction of colour, form and light in cast glass sculpture.

Mel Brimfield's diverse interdisciplinary collaborative practice is rooted in scripted performance, incorporating live work, moving image, staged audio, installation, photography and drawing.

Alongside exhibiting his studio work internationally for many years, Steve has taught regularly as a visiting lecturer and senior tutor on the programme since 2003.

Alice is a writer and interdisciplinary scholar who works across feminist art history, practice, theory, and literature to explore questions of sickness, sexuality, and gender.

Annie Cattrell has lectured in many art colleges, and exhibits widely both nationally and internationally.

Lisa Chang Lee is a multimedia artist and curator.

Sarah is a design historian. Her wide-ranging practice focuses on East Asian material culture and the body, with a special interest in fashion and race.

George Clark is an artist, writer and curator. His work explores the history of images and how they are governed by culture and technology as well as social and political conditions.

Gary has over 25 years’ experience in the higher education sector, with a specialist focus in international and transnational education.

James is an artist whose work focuses on themes of visibility, labour and surveillance capitalism, explored through installation, video, sculpture, public art and Internet-based projects.

Ben is interested in the curatorial as a contemporary cultural phenomenon and a mode through which to consider our relationship to the contemporary moment.

Kate has an independent sculpture practice and additionally works collaboratively with Scottish artist David Moore under the banner of ME-WE Productions.

Denise is a sculptor, living and working in London, who produces and exhibits ceramic works under the name Amy Bird.

Rebecca is a practising silversmith, metal artist and researcher exploring possibilities for innovation in the use and display of handmade contemporary domestic silverware.

Anne is a cultural producer and runs the independent nomadic platform: A---Z.

Chantal is an artist and writer whose photographic, painting, video and installation works have been exhibited globally.

Catherine Ferguson is a London-based painter, writer and curator. Her research is concerned with artistic and philosophical journeys elicited by encounters between different, materially specific, forms of practice.

Chris is a writer, editor and critic, author of The Artist in Time (Herbert Press, 2020) and Ha-Ha Crystal (Copy Press, 2016).

Rachel Garfield is an artist and writer whose work is engaged with the role of lived relations in the formation and intersections of subjectivities.

Born in a crossfire hurricane in Chicago, Illinois, Pamela studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her cross-cultural work has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and America.

Johnny’s work situates post-Newtonian analytics, new materialisms and the erotics of sense as ‘radical matter’, a practice-led encounter with contemporary philosophy, art and the wild sciences.

Holly Graham is a London-based artist whose work looks at ways in which memory and narrative shape collective histories.

Graham Hudson is an artist working with ideas relating to fitness, wellness culture and the body as a psychological, cultural and physical subject.

Antje exhibits her jewellery in the UK and Europe, and has worked as a design consultant and industrial designer.

Melanie's multidisciplinary practice involves modes of non-fiction storytelling – through space/objects/text/moving image and sound.

Juliet is a writer, filmmaker and podcast host who is interested in modernist and postmodernist art, literature, film and music, radical politics and LGBTQI+ issues.

Alana is a multi- and inter-disciplinary artist and writer, writing theory of art about the role and value of art in society from the perspective of a contemporary practitioner.

Dick is an artist/printmaker and filmmaker who still continues to work commercially as a cameraman within both the fashion and music industries.

Sarah’s photographic practice has examined the consulting space used for psychoanalysis, in particular ‘the couch’ as subject.

Jaspar is a London-based artist, whose work explores the role images play in urban planning, social space and everyday praxis.

Ben is an artist with 25 years of professional practice, working with durational events, installation, performance and moving image.

Josephine (Josie) is a design historian with a special interest in pleasure, modernity and the architectural environment, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Peter's political photomontage and installation work has been widely published and is in many major collections.

Pil is an artist, writer and curator; he works collaboratively with Dr Galia Kollectiv to make work which explores the relationship between art and politics.

Emily runs the Writing programme's annual collaborative project and leads critical reading seminars focusing on non-fiction prose, the essay form and modes of experimental, interdisciplinary writing.

Kelly is an artist, curator and educator. She makes process-based, live projects that engage performance and social choreography to critically explore the relationship between individual and collective agency.

Francesca is a curator, art historian, and interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the intersection between art and the activation, management and perception of risk.

Bob is an artist and exhibition organiser whose work is held in public and private collections in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Dr. Ekua McMorris is an inter-disciplinary artist, researcher and academic skills tutor on the Graduate Diploma in Art and Design programme.

Jeremy is an artist, and over the past thirty years has curated exhibitions of, and written widely on, many aspects of contemporary art and culture.

Ken has over two decades of teaching experience and has held senior academic posts at The Glasgow School of Art since 2006.

Martin Newth is an artist and academic leader interested in developing event-based curricula and forging innovative modes of learning, underpinned by research and practice.

Dr Peter Oakley specialises in research on materials, making and manufacturing.

Sally O’Reilly writes for the page and makes videos and performances with formal play and narrative complexity.

Tim has developed an eclectic working practice that is rooted in the overlapping spaces between art, science and literature.

Artun is a design historian whose research focuses on material culture in Turkey and South-eastern Europe with a special interest on collective memory practices through print or the built environment.

Francette Pacteau's research concerns the image understood not simply as optical event but as a complex of psychical processes set in motion by desire, indissociable from language.

Tom is a painter, teacher, writer, and occasional curator, born in Birkenhead, UK. He exhibits his work widely and often, in group and solo projects.

Gareth is a writer and artist.

Jessica Potter is an artist and teacher. Her practice is sensitive to the acts and processes of life, labour and care, considered though photography and language.

Louise is a writer and activist whose work is devoted to understanding the material culture of everyday life and interpreting the landscapes of extractivism, incarceration, exploitation and migration.

Meg is an artist whose work is concerned with the social and ethical implications of various forms of technically produced images.

Specialising in modern and contemporary art and visual culture, Rosie is a curator and researcher whose interests include artistic research methodologies, photographic images, and the archive.

Mah is a practising artist, researcher and writer working in the fields of contemporary jewellery, well-making, creative health, creativity and dementia, and health psychology.

Olivier's photographic practice proposes an investigation and celebration of the artifice of representations and his essays are informed by art history, philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis.

Cheryl is a design historian and writer on the material possibilities and histories of interactions in the consumption of fashion and textiles, and how these can in-form, de-form, and re-form future design thinking/practice.

A practicing artist and designer, David’s work focuses on innovation and expanding the discourse of Jewellery.

Regarded as a leading figure in contemporary studio metal, Michael's radical approach laid the foundations for an expanded practice in the crafts.

Aura is an artist who has performed, exhibited and screened her work nationally and internationally.

Tai's multidisciplinary practice revolves around experimental narrative texts that alternate between familiar narrative tropes and structures and theoretical prose.

Simon Sladen is responsible for the History of Design’s Performance pathway and supervises dissertation students working on performance-related topics.

John is a writer and critic based in London. He works through producing writing and criticism with a specialist interest in art, language and sign.

Katie's practice combines clay with a range of processes including animation and installation.

Sarah uses diverse media and mediums to investigate current interests and obsessions, producing an expanded notion of sculpture with a regard for sculpture’s social potential.

Jo has exhibited internationally, often making work from commissions or through residencies that explore the history of a site.

John is an artist, musician and academic based in London whose work ranges across painting, drawing, installation, moving image, sound and performance.

Shehnaz is a writer, curator, critic and cultural theorist whose main research themes are the politics of the body.

Spike's research into the Port of London in the eighteenth century considers the construction of markets, both as concrete objects and explanatory categories.

Chooc Ly Tan is a French-born Afro/Vietnamese/Cambodian artist, DJ and Fine Art lecturer.

Joanne works in collaboration with Tom O’Sullivan to produce interrogative works that question the social role, function and status of contemporary art.

Finlay’s work explores natural phenomena and landscape, often engaging with specific sites and species.

Edward works with trained and untrained performers to make videos and plays that explore how performance is used to navigate personal, interpersonal and occupational problems.

Mark Titchner’s work involves an exploration of the tensions between the different belief systems that inform our society, be they religious, scientific or political. Focusing on an exploration of words and language, in recent years much of his production has been based in the public realm both in the UK and internationally. These public works have often been created from extended group activities, working particularly with young people.

Dr. Valeriani is an historian of architecture and technology, with a background as a building archaeologist.

Laura is a cultural worker operating at the intersection between editing, curating, writing, translating and educating within the expanded field of the visual arts.

Gerrie is an editor and educator. She is interested in publishing as an environment for the articulation of and critical reflection on creative practices.

Victoria is a curator and active researcher whose projects span from the post-war period to the contemporary.

Max exhibits widely, at venues such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Gallery SO London, National Museum of Scotland, Gallery Marzee Nijmegen and the Design Museum in Ghent.

Grant is a curator and researcher based in London who specialises in Curatorial Theory.

Hermione's work, which examines maternity, gender politics and modernity, is held in major collections including the Arts Council, the Walker Arts collection and the Weltkunst Collection.

Isabel is an interdisciplinary practitioner and researcher working three-dimensionally within contemporary art practice, and on the aspect of current theory surrounding ‘expanded painting’.

Despina radically re-thinks performance art as ‘Spatium Monstrorum’: ‘surface’ occupied only by intensities, locus of parrhēsia, stage of trauma, event of Beauty and philosophy-as-embodied practice.