MPhil/PhD research
Active Projects
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Mary Yacoob
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My project will investigate the creative potential of making and thinking with diagrams. I will explore how artistic re-interpretations of scientific diagrams can investigate abstract, aesthetic and material strategies in hypothesis formation, visualisation and communication. The project combines current semiotic...
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Funa Ye
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Inherent to my studies is the concept of “neo-folk art”, interpreted as a typical style in the aesthetics of New China, combining the ideas of folk utopia, pop culture and propaganda.
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Shino Yanai
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This PhD research project aims to critique the power of the state and the aesthetics of nationalism.
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Shao-Jie Lin
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This practice-led Fine Art PhD researches the concept of freedom of movement, aiming to address the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and prevent hidden injustices developing into a new hierarchy.
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Vaishali Prazmari
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Thousands of artworks generated by the 1001 Arabian Nights, focusing on memory, magic and marginalia.
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Jiarui Li
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The research started from a magical trip to Lijiang, Yunnan province. The excitement from the perfect resonation and rich historical foundation of a lost culture, made me feel the urge to exploit it in my work and build something upon...
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Robert Mead
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Moving through the strata of my paintings digs up histories and ghosts of our past which linger in the changing landscapes of today.
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Jumana Emil Abboud
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My PhD will investigate the role of folk tales as an empowerment device; empowering people, and people affected by conflict in particular.
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Leonor Serrano Rivas
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Imagination is everything. I believe in an art practice fully governed by it that impacts actively in society: an artistic approach mediating between a technology-driven troubleshooting and a more holistic understanding of our context. Solutions, more often than not, come...
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Lucy Helton
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This practice-led research project will take a detailed look at humans’ dominant environmental footprint in space which mirrors our technologically mediated exploration and transformation of environments on Earth.
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Bindu Mehra
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Women’s voices in India continue to be silenced by the legacy of British colonialism and patriarchal, social, political and economic structures.
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Jasmir Creed
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My practice led research is as a painter who explores urban alienation in contemporary transcultural contexts, based on my journeys in my immediate urban environments through depicting the cultural diversity of people including crowds, iconic buildings and sculptures alongside self-portraits...
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Nastassja Simensky
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My current PhD research explores the potential of collaborative fieldwork between artists and archaeologists. In addition, this project asks how the development of place-specific and collaborative methods ‘in the field’ enable new ways of highlighting current discourses around nuclear energy...
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Alfonso Borragan
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The project proposes an artistic reading of stone ingestion while questioning the pathologizing of this practice by psychology. It contemplates the mouth as a site of profanation as well as a mediating device of possession, digestion and knowledge.
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Katarzyna Depta-Garapich
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My practice-led research project “Neither Subject nor Object”: Reciprocal Readymade in Times of Useful Art explores ‘use value’ of art in the context of site specific interventions. The investigation examines the intersection of art and society, collective approaches to art...
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Hermione Spriggs
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“Anthropologists don’t believe in things, they believe out of them.” Roy Wagner
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Egidija Čiricaitė
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My practice-related research furthers the discussion on artists’ books — and it’s peripheries, such as visual poetry — using the relevance theory of language interpretation as a framework to expand the conversation on multimodal art objects.
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Anneke Kampman
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This PhD seeks to understand the capitalistic functions of the music-video form, interpreting its distinctive mode of audio-visuality as characteristic of new forms of commodity production.
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Ellie Doney
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We too are stuff, but as humans, we are no longer held to be alpha matter. This practical research project travels the boundaries of our bodies through the materials we ingest and reflect, noticing our temper and terroir.
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Ioana Marinescu
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How are places remembered and interpreted? How can we open up a dialogue between past and present, between individual experiences and collective memories?
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Eloise Fornieles
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The research investigates whether performed acts of ‘Queer Extimacy’ can generate new narratives and voices on the gender spectrum, using my own experience of gender and my subsequent performances as an example.
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Malgorzata Dawidek
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My artistic work is focused on the conflict between the condition of the human body and discursive language. My research provides an overview of the phenomenon of the human body as a textual form, repository for memories and emotions. I...
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Naomi Siderfin
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What differentiates an artist who develops an identity as a curator as part of a broader artistic practice and a curator who sees his/her practice as art?
Past Projects
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Anna Bunting-Branch
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This thesis considers feminist science fiction as a methodology to approach the question of sexual difference raised by Luce Irigaray. As something that has not yet happened—the stubborn embodiment of that speculative potentiality of the “what if…?” which resists the...
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Yein Son
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My PhD research analyses material and process exploration within my own art practice and the corresponding historical painting context.
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Christina Della Giustina
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you are variations is a ten-year study of tree water-cycles in which scientific climate change research has provided environmental data on sap flow that is transposed into a musical score
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Nick Laessing
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This research project is an artistic investigation into the element hydrogen and its agency in the context of ecological art2. In light of the recently proposed Anthropocene epoch, I will produce a series of installation works to test...
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Leni Dothan
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Through my research I ask if Renaissance art created a set of Visual Contracts, and I hypothesize that its legacy continues to control our social, political, and religious behaviour to this day. Is it possible to challenge representations of women...
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Philip Thompson
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The past ten years has seen a sudden rise in the number of academic texts addressing issues surrounding a digital ontology. Ranging from reproduction (Groys 2008), materiality (Blanchette 2011), error (Nunes 2011), and circulation (Steyerl 2009) understanding the digital world...
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Jin Han Lee
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My desire to enact a reappraisal of ekphrastic hope and fear is motivated by the differences I have identified between Korean and Western understandings of time in relation to abstract painting, and of how the artist deploys his ‘life experiences’...
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Laura Kuch
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For my research project I decided to enliven the German Early Romantics’ enduring search for the Wunderbare and ineffable – symbolized by the Blue Flower – through my own practice.
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Elisabeth S. Clark
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My research seeks to further elucidate notions and questions circling the ‘event’ both in contemporary art practices and art writing. But what constitutes an artwork as event? And is the ‘event’ an act or trace or the inevitable dichotomy of...
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Nir Segal
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The Flat Diamond is a conceptual and theoretical object that operates as a proposition and invitation to explore the values of collaborative art practice; the work’s central concern is exploring the roles of the author and of narrative in the...
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Nayoung Jeong
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The tension of contemporary life exists as a paradox: In an era of increasing migration, both forced and chosen, we are at once radically global and yet culturally divided. As an artist with international experiences, I have personally navigated national...
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Yvonne Feng
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My PhD research Tracing the Unspeakable: Painting as Embodied Seeing originates from the dramatic incident of my mother’s imprisonment and my state of disorientation caused by it.
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Dawn Gaietto
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What is happening here? [exploits of the nonhuman] is a practice-led research project introducing the proposition of anthrodecentric art as conceptual framework.
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Sophie Bouvier Ausländer
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What is the particular status of the hand in world making? To what extent can analytic philosophy and phenomenology of perception clarify the image of the world epitomised through sculpture, its becoming, its recovering?
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Errol Francis
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My thesis is concerned with cultural articulations of space, from the point of view of philosophy and from the perspective of artists responding to museums as key sites of cultural heritage.
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Paul Magee
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A digital fine art practice is at the nexus of some powerful dichotomies. The digital vs the analogue, the natural vs the artificial, the subjective vs the objective, the emotions vs reason, and art vs science among them. This research...
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Dana Ariel
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Identity that refuses to identify,
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Sarah Fortais
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My practice-led research aims to define what it means to call a person or thing ‘cool’. Methodologically, my fine art practice is bricolage: disassembling, repurposing, and modifying objects or ideas to generate new wholes and understanding. As a bricoleur, I...
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Kay Tabernacle
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Imagination is neglected in studies of Hannah Höch. The related ideological and partial interpretation of Höch’s work has resulted in distorted understandings that obscure her aims. Höch theorises imagination as a radical force that can change people’s perception, and in...
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Patricia Townsend
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I work with video, photography and installation and am interested in the interface between the external world and the internal world of the imagination. Much of my work explores our emotional relationship with landscape - the ways in which landscape...
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Sonia Bridge
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What is at stake within Breer’s process and distinctive employment of cinematic assemblage within the postwar period, is not only the desire to investigate non-traditional sites and techniques and to inclusively claim, say, the moving-image as an artistic medium, but...
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Meng Ju Shih
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I'm interested in place and the relationships it produces between people. I'm curious about how the ownership of culture power in Taiwan has progressed in painting domain, landscape, especially.
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Henrietta Simson
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Single point perspective and photographic technologies of sight have been implicated in a dominating western way of seeing, referred to here as 'natural vision' for the past 500 years.
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Florian Roithmayr
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Moulding and casting are widely used techniques of modern and contemporary sculptural practices. But their applications are also employed beyond the disciplinary art canon, in areas not immediately associated with art making. The ambition of this research project is to...
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Onya McCausland
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Turning Landscape into Colour is an investigation into the origins of earth pigments - ‘ochres’ found in landscapes across the UK that considers their significance as contemporary cultural materials.
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Fiona Curran
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Fiona Curran's practice-related PhD considers the role of visual and material practices since the 1960s in relation to the environmental impact of new technologies and anthropogenic climate change, focusing on the critical significance of landscape in examining conditions of power...
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Yva Jung
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This research examines the notions of journey, pause and composition through art practice.
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Aaron Murphy
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My practice-led research explores the Jungian idea of synchronicity, and related topics like Tao, coincidence and chance.
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Johan Thom
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In this research project I show how a performative, material reading of the artwork provides for an interpretive framework constituted as much by the form, subject matter and context of the artwork, as by the viewer’s embodied experience thereof.
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Eleanor Morgan
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I create videos, sculptures prints and drawings that explore material and mythical entanglements between humans and animals. This has led me to weave silk from living spiders, immerse myself in a giant green sea anemone and create a staring match...
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Deborah Padfield
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This thesis explores how photographic images can expand pain dialogue in the consulting room to include aspects of experience frequently omitted using traditional measures.
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Theresia Peng
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An investigatation of questions concerning the cross-cultural analysis and utility of images in Tibetan Tantric Buddhist art, as opposed to political conflicts that often arise in the media now.
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Kai Syng Tan
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Kai Syng Tan's practice-related Fine Art thesis performs a discourse of ‘trans-running’ – running physically and poetically, and running as both subject and approach – as a playful methodology to transform our world today.
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Elly Thomas
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In this practice-related study I use a range of play theory to examine the creative processes behind the work of Eduardo Paolozzi, Philip Guston and Tony Oursler. All three artists express a need to create a semblance of life.
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Tim Long
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My thesis examines work by Antonin Artaud, Henry Darger, Marcel Duchamp, and Pablo Picasso, with the intention of subjecting specific works by these artists to critical tests employing the idea proposed by Antonin Artaud's subjectile, that is a paradoxical fusion...
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Laura Cinti
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Laura Cinti is a practicing artist working within the intersections of art, biology and nanotechnology.
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Mikhail Karikis
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Mikhail Karikis' doctoral research was a methodological experiment, which employed academic writing, music composition and art practice to explore notions of the 'self' through the study of voice and sound.
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Aura Satz
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This research project examined the concept of mediated presence through the perception of inanimate images coming to life, and the converse experience of human actors becoming inanimate images, whilst interrogating how this might articulate, substantiate or defy belief.
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Raimi Gbadamosi
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The inter-relationship between race, power and language has been chronicled in various forms. And despite attempts at renegotiation, the nature of polemical positioning does not seem to change. Visual polemics finds itself constantly defined and framed by cultural politics, placing...
