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Research staff

Camberwell College of Arts researchers and their areas of art and design expertise.

Senior Lecturer in Photography

  • Expanded photography and moving image practice.
  • History, theory and speculative futures of photography.
  • Moving image as site-specific spatial practice.
  • Media archaeology, operational images and machine vision.
  • Theory-fiction and performative writing.

Juan Bolivar

Lecturer in BA Fine Art: Painting

  • Modernism and geometric abstraction.
  • Early European avant-garde, North and South American abstraction.
  • Early and mid-century comics, popular culture: music, film and T.V. (1980s and 90s).
  • Intertextuality.
  • Language.
  • Memory studies.

Dr Marsha Bradfield

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

  • Archiving and contextualising interdisciplinary practice.
  • Economies and ecologies of collaborative cultural production.
  • Incidentality, the Artist Placement Group and post-artistic practice.
  • Intercultural practices and life-long/life-wide learning.
  • Interdependence, including personal and professional hyphenation.

Dr M J Hunter Brueggeman

Lecturer in Creative Computing, Creative Computing Institute

  • Science and technology studies (STS).
  • Non-representational theory and emancipated modes of academic writing.
  • Epistemologies and pedagogies of inclusion.
  • Posthuman and postdisciplinary methodological innovation.
  • Creative computing and robotics, computational arts.

Dr Sheena Calvert

Senior Lecturer in Contextual Studies (Design)

  • Typography.
  • Design/art.
  • Artists' books.
  • Philosophy (of language, politics and ethics).

William Cobbing

Senior Lecturer in BA Fine Art: Drawing

  • Sculpture theory and practice, clay, ceramics.
  • Art and psychoanalysis.
  • Archiving.
  • Performance art.
  • Concrete poetry.

Professor Paul Coldwell

Professor in Fine Art Printmaking

  • Collections and archives.
  • Printmaking - new and old technologies.
  • Fine art.

Maia Conran

Course Leader in BA Fine Art: Photography

  • Fine art.
  • Film, video and photography.
  • Media infrastructures.
  • Media archaeology and collage.
  • Collaborative practice.

David Cross

Reader in Fine Art

  • Fine art, context specific sculptural installation and photography.

Dr Kimathi Donkor

Reader in Painting and Black Art and Programme Director Painting

  • Fine art practice, painting and drawing.
  • Art, race, blackness and national identity.
  • Fine art museums and collections.

Max Dovey

Pathway Leader in MA Fine Art: Computational Arts

  • Algorithmic and interactive art.
  • Performance and liveness studies.
  • Digital materialities.

Professor Mark Fairnington

Professor in Painting

  • Fine art painting.

Dr Tina Gverović

Course Leader in BA Fine Art: Sculpture

  • Amnesia and belonging in visual art.
  • Imagination as a social practice.
  • The relationship between poetics and politics in installation art.
  • Economy and history of materials in installation art.

Sigune Hamann

Reader in Art and Media Practice

  • Photography, art and media practice.
  • Image perception and cognition: stillness and movement, embodied perception, attention and temporality, modes of address.

Dr Johanna Love

Pathway Leader in MA Fine Art: Printmaking

  • Fine art, printmaking, drawing, photography, visual perception, materiality and surface.

Eva Sajovic

Lecturer in BA Graphic Design

  • Politically engaged art practice.
  • Socially engaged art practice.
  • The role of the artist.
  • Climate Justice.
  • Knitting and photography.
  • Displacement.
  • Gentrification.

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory

  • Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, art and society.
  • Feminist art practice.
  • Modern and contemporary art history and theory.

Professor Daniel Sturgis

Professor in Painting

  • Fine art painting, curation, the histories of abstraction, modernism and the baroque.

Dr Rachel Emily Taylor

Course Leader in BA Illustration

  • Illustration and heritage.
  • Critical heritage studies.
  • Museum interpretation.
  • Illustration as voice.

Jennet Thomas

Reader in Time Based Media and Performance

  • Fine Art practice involving; moving image and performance, moving image and experimental writing, moving image and popular genres including as sci-fi, folk tales and fantasy.

Luise Vormittag

Reader in Illustration

  • Illustration research and theory.
  • Illustration and community.
  • Public sphere and participation.
  • Visual cultures, rhetoric and methodologies.

Dr Niki Wallace

Course Leader in MA Global Collaborative Design Practice

  • Just transitions and transformations (particularly design’s role).
  • Complex collaboration (particularly in relation to design for transitions).
  • Psychology of change and designing for grief.
  • Circular design and design for circular economies.
  • Regenerative design tools, techniques and games.

Dr Ken Wilder

Reader in Spatial Design

  • Beholding, aesthetics and situated art.
  • Architectural / spatial design practices and aesthetics.

Dr Sarah Kate Wilson

Senior Lecturer in BA Fine Art: Painting

  • Fine art painting (including the expanded field of painting) and curation.
  • The performative possibilities of painting.

Dr Stephen Wilson

Postgraduate Theory Coordinator

  • Contemporary art, design labour and future studies.
  • Gender studies, biopolitics and transnationalism.

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