Writing a lens: how might the formal structures of the film archive be subverted through fictioning within artist moving image? … More
Category: PhD Researcher
Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau
Resentment, Contempt, Disgust: Status-emotions in Performance and Video My research in performance and video will interrogate and expand the thinking … More
Mark Aerial Waller
My research concerns how we as spectators can have the understanding of ourselves and our surroundings (our subjectivity) thrown into … More
George Charman
Fragments and Formworks: Architectural Possibilities for Edward James’s Archive The intention of this research project is to utilise through practice, … More
Mónica Rivas Velasquez
My PhD project centres on a speculative productive fusion of contemporary art practice, botanical research, autobiographical narratives and political histories, past and … More
Keira Greene
In the global event of rapacious consumption, it is evidently unethical, as an artist, to work with toxic material or … More
John Lawrence
Through a practice located in art writing I am invested in exploring the peripheries of where meaning can be generated … More
James Irwin
Using Printmaking and the Moving Image to relocate the individual within Algorithms and Automation. My research will address printmaking and … More
Ilsa Colsell
Overlay: How can we use layering and obscuring as a strategy for making? When two objects are placed together, one … More
Charlotte Warne Thomas
Golden Age; On the Contemporary Agency of Gold My practice-based research examines the changing role of gold as a material … More
Alex Pollard
The Clairvoyance of Painting: Is Paint Ganymede Slime? Taking the form of paintings and theory-fiction this practice-based inquiry explores a … More
Andy Tam
“Global Economics” making “Global Contemporary” Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” … More
Anna Lucas
Looking, looking away, looking again – The photographic still as an object on film What perceptual transformations occur when the … More
Felicity Hammond
Portals in the Urban Terrain: excavating the virtual ruins of rendered architectural propositions Monumental billboards concealing construction sites have become … More
Marianne Keating
‘They don’t do much in the cane-hole way’ Representing Caribbean Whiteness and the Irish Diaspora in Jamaica through visual and … More
Simon Josebury
Beautility: printed matter, moving image and the question of Use My research takes as its framework the beauty-utility opposition in … More
John Hughes
Surface and Sub – Surface Subversion UNDERGROUND: experimental inter-disciplinary fiction in contemporary art I am experimenting with combinations of text … More
Melissa Gordon
The Value of Gestures My PhD aims to address the question of how the value of a gesture is determined … More
Christian Newby
Among the Living: Articulating Craft Methodologies Beyond Ornament and Skill in Contemporary Art Practice My research examines how the use … More
Daniel Shanken
Unconscious and pre-programmed systems of influence and their implications within art practice Daniel Shanken is an artist from Los Angeles, … More
Seyyed Sadegh Aleahmad
Anxieties of Difference As a young Iranian artist living in the UK, the examination of my position in the cultural … More
Gareth Jones
How to fabricate the ideal city I’m looking at how to fabricate the ideal city, using a methodology that I’ve … More
Bill Leslie, PhD
What happens to a sculpture when it is filmed and photographed? What happens to a sculpture when it is filmed … More
Maryam Tafakory, PhD
Devotion and absence: towards a cinematic écriture féminine This research proposes to investigate the intersection of documentary, experimental video and ethnography within … More
Jenna Collins, PhD
We Are the Road Contemporary archival art practices utilise their artefacts in a variety of ways. My approach foregrounds certain … More
Lucy Coggle
Digital Scurvy: shimmering the screen Surface tension and perpetual vacillation in the digital; a practice based investigation into the effect of digital onto … More
Charlie Tweed, PhD
Re-writing the overcode Charlie Tweed’s practice based PhD research project ‘Re-writing the overcode’ has developed from in depth research around … More
Rachel Cattle, PhD
I am a Stylus: Play, Erase, Replay, Overdub, Broadcast Climbing the stairs and stepping out, its pitch black. I’m disorientated, … More
Jonathan Allen, PhD
Casting for the voice of Strength || Austin Spare and the cultures of cartomancy This project takes direction from a … More
Martin Westwood, PhD
Through [sic]_[[sic]], I ask a question: how can the material fixity of embodiment and the mobility of information be performed together by … More
Completed PhD projects
Bill Leslie, (AHRC techne) – ‘Good Enough Sculptures: What Happens When Sculptures Are Made to Be Filmed?’, 2020 Maureen de … More