Staff in the Department of Art

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

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.

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Paul utilises outdated or obsolete computer technologies to perform specialist interventions in the digital art medium.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

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

Ali Eisa

Adham Faramawy

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

Dr Laura Grace Ford

Laura Grace Ford is a multidisciplinary artist.

Carl Gent

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

Lily German

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

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.

Jasmine Johnson

Jasmine Johnson works with drawing, painting, performance and video.

Dr Hannah Catherine Jones

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

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 Suhail Malik

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

Bod Mellor

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elle Reynolds

Alternative pedagogies, collaborative and informal spaces for learning

Dr Ilona Sagar

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

Dr Edgar Schmitz

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

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.

Kate Smith

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

Jol Thoms

Jol's practice engages more-than-human worlds, critical comparative eco-cosmology, and quantum meta/physics.

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

Beny Wagner is an artist, filmmaker and writer

Bernard Walsh

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

Roxy Walsh

Roxy Walsh is an artist working with paint and words.

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

Dr Irene Revell

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