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Centre for Useless Splendour

Contemporary Art Research Centre at Kingston University, London.

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Tag: Contemporary Art

Anna Lucas

Looking, looking away, looking again – The photographic still as an object on film What perceptual transformations occur when the … More

Anna Lucas, artist, Contemporary Art, PhD, Practice, research

Mandy Ure

Dean, Kingston School of Art   In Mandy Ure’s paintings there is an absurd investment, a committed doubt, in producing … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Mandy Ure, PhD, Practice

Diagram of an Hour

 Vinyl record by We Are Publication Launch at Cubitt’s studio 5, 6pm -8pm, 4th July 2017. 8 Angel Mews, Islington, … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, We Are Publication

Louis Nixon

Associate member Director of the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong My research is underpinned by an on-going engagement with … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Kingston School of Art, Louis Nixon, PhD, Practice

Volker Eichelmann

Director of Postgraduate Research, School of Art & Architecture In 1925, Stephen Tennant (1906–1987), perhaps the most intriguing of England’s … More

artist, CARC, Contemporary Art, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor, Volker Eichelmann

Felicity Hammond

Portals in the Urban Terrain: excavating the virtual ruins of rendered architectural propositions Monumental billboards concealing construction sites have become … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Felicity Hammond, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

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

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Kingston School of Art, Marianne Keating, PhD, Practice, research

Simon Josebury

Beautility:  printed matter, moving image and the question of Use My research takes as its framework the beauty-utility opposition in … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Kingston School of Art, Marianne Keating, PhD, Practice, research, Simon Josebury

Dr Sarah Bennett

Head of School Art & Architecture In her artistic research Bennett critiques the historical and contemporary contexts of psychiatric provision … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Dr Sarah Bennett artist, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

John Hughes

Surface and Sub – Surface Subversion UNDERGROUND: experimental inter-disciplinary fiction in contemporary art I am experimenting with combinations of text … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, John Hughes artist, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Jo Addison

Head of Department, Fine Art  The relationship between objects and the body, and of objects to one another is intrinsic … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Jo Addison, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor

Dr Henry Bond

Senior Lecturer Research interests: Virilio’s prism of military strategy, military tactics, and defense organisation is my current focus with a … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Dr Henry Bond, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Melissa Gordon

The Value of Gestures My PhD aims to address the question of how the value of a gesture is determined … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Melissa Gordon, PhD, Practice, research

Christian Newby

Among the Living: Articulating Craft Methodologies Beyond Ornament and Skill in Contemporary Art Practice My research examines how the use … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Christian Newby, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Daniel Shanken

Unconscious and pre-programmed systems of influence and their implications within art practice Daniel Shanken is an artist from Los Angeles, … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Daniel Shanken, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Seyyed Sadegh Aleahmad

Anxieties of Difference As a young Iranian artist living in the UK, the examination of my position in the cultural … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, Seyyed Sadegh Aleahmad

Adam Gillam

Course Leader BA Fine Art Revelling in material and visual flippancy, Adam Gillam fidgets, probes and tweaks the abundant dark … More

Adam Gillam, artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor

Mark Harris

Associate Professor in Fine Art Mark Harris’ key area of research and specialism is the history of the printed image … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Mark Harris, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor
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