Faculty of Arts & Society
The Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design
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Staff Expertise
Asa Andersson researches ideas of intimacy and spatiality, how we co-exist in differently inhabited places among sensations and memories, and how these ambiguous relationships might be visually and poetically manifested through photography, site-related installations, text and print.
Chris Bloor has worked with drawing and print-based processes exploring language and writing methods inspired by interests in 20th century structural experimentation and the Beat movement of the 1950's. More recent concerns have been with the place of painting in the midst of conceptualism, and how contemporary practice views and uses polarities (good/bad; naïve/informed; object-making/social interaction). This embraces an interest in the role of video and photography in how work can now reflex between the material and the immaterial.
Alyson Brien works on the production of drawings, paintings and sculpture in various media that seek to explore the relationship between form and surface in our awareness of space, as a bridge between touch and sight, including investigating how early incised linear pictorial writing forms a codified unit in prehistory.
James Chinneck is concerned with a consideration of travel, tourism and place, engaging in serious explorations that often result in the humorous and unexpected. Challenging assumptions as to the conventions of sculpture, he works with combinations of carefully crafted objects and haphazard assemblage, and he is increasingly using sound as a medium and exploiting the potentials of digital technologies, for example at http://www.millionth.org/
Peter Ellis excavates ironic and formal relationships between the functions of everyday objects, their histories and and use as metaphors. His materials and processes are not defined by convention, discipline demarcations, habit or hierarchies of form, but determined by the idea. He casts things in bronze, animates objects mechanically, penetrates the forms of objects with text and use lenses to magnify surfaces and narratives.
Marion Harrison is interested in the conceptual, narrative and fictive potentials of photographic imagery and text. Much of this research is currently concerned with experiences of travel, non-spaces or transitory spaces and their relationship to the visual poetics of architectural 'emptiness'; jet streams, skylines, stages, corridors, runways, landscapes.
Ian Truelove leads educational technology research projects within the School. Recent projects include the JISC funded Open Habitat project, which investigated the potential for learning in virtual words.
Graham Hibbert, having worked as a freelance designer and artist with photographic and moving-image based work that sought to explore the role of the abstract within contemporary digital media practice, is now investigating the impact of virtual spaces on identity and self-perception. He also worked as a researcher on the JISC funded Open Habitat project.
Peter Lewis is an artist, curator and writer. He is concerned with researching and initiating curatorial projects as a collective and migratory practice, changing according to the contingencies of time and place. He was Chief Curator for the 6th International Sharjah Biennial. He now directs a continuing programme of curatorial projects at Redux (http://www.reduxprojects.org.uk/) in London, and was invited curator for U.A.E at Sao Paulo Biennial in 2004, and is currently a Guest Curator of the Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria, and the Domus Academy, Milan, and Curator of Film and Video and Juror for the Kunsthalle, Vienna.
Brian McCallion is concerned with drawing, etching and painting, primarily in contexts that connect in various ways with landscape.
Nathaniel Mellors uses his art practice to explore the point at which languages, whether written, filmic or sculptural, begin to break down and function in different ways. Working against any singular style by combatively colliding different genres, he generates his own strange language codes through the considered application of incongruous elements and unlikely materials.
Kevin O'Brien works with painting, engagings with the traditions and limitations of that medium in complex and adventurous ways.
Simon Ringe focuses on the interstices between industrial production methodologies and notions of the individual as narrative frameworks. His work employs recognisable industrial production methods often realised in varying sculptural formats as hybrid forms invested with content that articulates and reflects on ideas of the individual against larger constraining forces.
Doug Sandle is Reader in Visual Studies, and a chartered psychologist whose teaching and research interests have covered perceptual psychology, aesthetics and art and design, and also the arts therapies. More recent contributions to conferences and publications have been on art in the public realm and topics within visual and expressive culture.
Liz Stirling is interested in alternative ideas of what denotes 'art practice'; including creating spaces of discussion, research as a creative and collaborative activity, and research based approaches to site-specific projects, through explorations of space and ideology, and fact and fictions in research.
Jenny Tennant Jackson is interested in Foucaultian approaches to art historical knowledge, Continental philosophy, complexity science and cultural theory. She is a Visiting Research Fellow to AHRC CentreCATH, the Transdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Analysis, History and Theory, and has research projects in Complexity Science supported by the EPSRB.
Andrew Wilson Lambeth is a typographer, currently engaged in creative procedures in where the poetic, the typographic, and the syntactic are more or less equal; a sort of mid-zone between concrete poetry and experimental typography. His professional experience extends from magazine and bookwork, fine art practice, to television and film titling, but has for some years been principally pedagogical.
Aidan Winterburn makes films, music and writes about graphic design and visual culture. He writes for grafik magazine and has contributed to books on the history of the poster, Street Talk; the Rise and Fall of the Poster, and on typography and politics in Public Addess System. He is particularly interested in post-war modernist design in both architecture and graphics, and in the history of animation and satirical illustration.
Other active researcher in the School include: Casey Orr, Andy Edwards, Clive Egginton, Jo Hassall, Ben Judd, Mick Marston, Michael Powell and Martyn Rainford.
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