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Visual Art Practice

Visual Art Practice

The Fine Art and Photography Research Group (FAPRG) is an innovative, rigorous and dynamic interdisciplinary academic team of art practitioners, historians and theoreticians.

Expertise within the FAPRG is extensive and stems from the individual academic’s direct professional experience of operating within the contemporary art world in combination with a cultural, historical, philosophical and political awareness that underpins all aspects of their research specialist area.

Fine Art, , Arts Management, Curating and Commissioning, Performance, Sound, Moving Image, Dance, Philosophy, Historical and Contextual understanding of Art.

The Fine Art and Photography Research Group at 51Âþ»­ invites applications to the Midlands 3 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Members of the group and their research interests are listed below:

Fine Art

Dr Carina Brand – carina.brand@dmu.ac.uk

Art Theory, Art History, Political Economy, Post-Operaismo, Feminism, Globalisation, Marxism

Raimi Gbdamosi – raimi.gbadamosi@dmu.ac.uk

Fine Art, Race, Science-Fiction, Art Theory, Comics, Performance

Dr Isabella Streffen - isabella.streffen@dmu.ac.uk

Art and curatorial practice; experimental, hybrid and art writing; cultural history of seeing and technologies of vision; site-specific practice

Alex Roberts – alex.roberts@dmu.ac.uk

Fine Art, painting, drawing, perceived identity, change, encounters – human tangibility, Curation (collaborative research)

Jamie Scott – jdscott@dmu.ac.uk
Contemporary fine art practice; Contemporary Indian art; Curation; Installation; Painting; Lens and digital media

Ruth Sumner – rsumner@dmu.ac.uk

Fine art education; Fine art practices; Painting

Anna Lucas – alucas@dmu.ac.uk

Artists moving image, in particular the use of the camera and editing process as a tool for research.  Visual perception.  The documentary form in relation to human interaction with landscape, learning institutions and amateur expert knowledge.  Diegetic sound.  Non-verbal communication and learning

Louise Clarke – lclarke@dmu.ac.uk
Historical and contemporary drawing and print, Fine art practices, curatorial practice

Andy Price – aprice02@dmu.ac.uk

Fine art Practices; 20th & 21st century sculpture; Alternative modes of discourse in the arts

Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT)

Dr Fabrizio Poltronieri – fabrizio.poltronieri@dmu.ac.uk

Creative Technologies, Computer Aesthetics, Computational Art, Algorithmic Art, Generative Art, Art and Technology, New Media Art, Virtual Reality, Vilém Flusser

Photography and Video Arts

Professor Lala Meredith-Vula – lala@dmu.ac.uk

Contemporary photography; video; film; fine art; contemporary visual art; photography and film history; fine art and photography practice; migration, diaspora, identity and belonging; art in Eastern Europe, both contemporary and historic 

Matthew Pell – matthew.pell@dmu.ac.uk

Experimental Film, Video Art, Sound Design, Moving Image, Sound Ecology

Martin Shakeshaft – mshakeshaft@dmu.ac.uk

Art and Design Education, Documentary Photography, New Art and Emerging Photography, Landscape photography, Visual Journalism, drone photography

Dave Soden – dsoden@dmu.ac.uk
Still & moving image, live music performance, song composition, recorded sound design and interactive installation

Jo Booth – joanne.booth@dmu.ac.uk

Contemporary Fine Art photography

Anna Lucas – alucas@dmu.ac.uk
Artists’ moving image, use of the camera and editing process as tools for research, visual perception, diegetic sound, the documentary form in relation to human interaction with landscape, learning institutions, amateur expertise, non-verbal communication and learning

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