Dr Euripides Altintzoglou

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art & Photography

Euripides Altintzoglou’s practice explores the correlation of being, politics, and change. He is the co-editor (with Martin Fredriksson) of Revolt and Revolution: The Protester in the 21st Century (Oxford, UK). His work is shown internationally in private galleries, public museums, and biennales.

Sarah Byrne

Graduate  Teacher   Fine Art

Belonging and Not Belonging is a collection of personal stories with conflicting elements of nostalgia and resent. Together they reflect on culture and experience through photography, text, and painting.

Paul Harrison

S/L Lecturer Fine Art

Paul Harrison and John Wood make video works that elegantly fuse advanced aesthetic research and existential comedy. The artists’ spare, to-the point works combine the actions of their own bodies and a wide range of static and kinetic props to humorously illuminate the triumphs and tribulations of making art and a life.

Dr Alexei Penzin

Reader

Dr. Alexei Penzin received his PhD from the Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. His research centres on contemporary interpretations of Marxist thought, continental philosophy and critical theory, contemporary art theory, and Soviet and post-Soviet intellectual and cultural history.

Penzin has published his research in numerous journal articles in such journals as Rethinking Marxism, Mediations, South Atlantic Quarterly, Manifesta Journal, as well as in many edited collections.

His essay ‘Rex Exsomnis’ (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012) was part of the dOCUMENTA13 series. Currently, he is preparing his book Against the Continuum: Sleep and Subjectivity in Capitalist Modernity, for publication by Bloomsbury Academic in 2017.

He has also presented papers and given lectures at many international conferences and academic and cultural venues, including Historical Materialism annual conferences, ‘Former West’ congresses, dOCUMENTA13 in Kassel, the Goethe Institute, Serpentine Gallery, Yale University, and the University of Oxford.

Maggie Ayliffe,

S/L Lecturer Fine Art

Ayliffe’s work focuses upon questions of gender and the feminine within the broad field of visual culture. She is an experienced lecturer in both Visual Culture theory and Fine Art practice and is an active member of a wider research community – having contributed to numerous symposia and public debates.

Dr Simon Harris

S/L Lecturer Fine Art

Dr Simon Harris is a painter whose PhD research provides a distinct focus for a studio-based investigation. The main aim of the research is the re-negotiation of formalist modes of painting practice through an exploration of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical processes. Contextually the research acknowledges the critiques of painting, specifically the genealogy of the pictorial plane as it advances from an Albertian perspective to a Modernist flatness and the Post-Modern arrest.

Dr Dean Kelland

S/L Lecturer Fine Art

Dean's practice follows an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates performance film, live performance techniques and photography as well as other media and methods. His doctoral thesis (Flawed Masculinities: "Rupturing" 1950s/60s/70s British Sitcom via a Performance-led Interdisciplinary Arts Practice) was supervised by Professor Roger Sabin and Reader Susan Trangmar at Central St Martins, and was successfully examined by Dr Simon Grennan (University of Chester) and Professor Caroline Evans (Central St Martins).

Laura Onions

Lecturer Fine Art

I am an artist and educator based in the West Midlands. I make work to investigate the relationship between the formal, visual qualities of writing and the disruption of meaning in text. A consideration of how new patterns of meaning are generated and are always incomplete or changeable. This is reflective of my attitude towards education – the continual co-emergence of making, thinking and learning which is inherently connected to material mattering and ‘doing.’

Gavin Rogers

S/L Lecturer Fine Art

Gavin Rogers is an international artist, performer and socially engaged researcher living and working in the United Kingdom. His practice is situated across a range of media from performance to sculpture. Gavin has particular interest in the area of identity; juxtaposing, stereotyping and discovering personal, social and psychogeographical identities though visual, textual and verbal languages.

Christian Mieves

S/L Lecturer Fine Art

Research themes in Christian’s work to date have included the beach and other border spaces as metaphors for semantically uncertain fields, the trope of cannibalism, and representations of the exotic and Arcadia. He has published journal articles on the work of Tuymans and Dana Schutz and is currently preparing articles on the concept of ‘wonder’ in visual art.