Damian Owen-Board
Staff details
Position
Co-Head of the Department
Department
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
d.owen-board (@gold.ac.uk)
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Damian is an artist working in photography and video whose work engages with queerness, architecture and belonging
Damian is an artist working in photography, video and installation whose work has been included in solo and group exhibitions both in the UK and internationally. His current work examines the institutionalised space as metaphor for queerness and ‘othering’ – eschewing the everyday banality of these locations by intervening in ways that create an unease and sense of dread.
Previously Damian's practice has explored ideas around the cinematic spectacle and the dichotomy of high and low art through the constructs of genre cinema and questioned the differences between cinematic and photographic narratives in terms of how audiences relate to the truth in storytelling.
Teaching and supervision
Damian convenes undergraduate photography on BA Media and Communications.
Research interests
Damian's work is interested in the intersection of queerness with alternative histories, geographies and physical space. His work uses elements of sculpture and installation to make over or shift existing spaces, phasing them with alternative queer worlds and fantasies.