Art Research Centre – Bath Spa University

Art Research Centre – Bath Spa University
Art Research Centre
The Art Research Centre (ARC) is comprised of artists, artistic researchers, makers, curators and critical writers working across the field of contemporary art practice and theory.
In this section
About us
Research Projects
Research groups and clusters
Research networks
Postgraduate Research Art
Contact Us
About the Art Research Centre
Our academic staff exhibit and/or publish their work internationally in varied forms ranging from solo and group exhibitions, live performances, and curatorial projects, to the more usual conference presentations, journal articles, book chapters and monographs.
Our research lies at the centre of our intellectual, artistic and operational framework. Through it, we demonstrate our values of imagination, criticality, creativity, innovation and enterprise. At the heart of our approach to research of all forms is a continuing enquiry into the manner in which knowledge can be seen to be produced through both material and immaterial forms; to this extent it is an enquiry into the nature of human knowledge and experience. Our aim is to ensure that this enquiry is of worth and significance to society.
Our research is pursued within a culture of creative curiosity that values equally the contribution of hand skill, machine and digital technologies, and theoretical contexts as means towards this end. Through the research centre, the relationships within the broader subject area within the School of Art, Film and Media and also its relations to the wider cultural, social and political milieu will continue to be subject to interrogation in informal dialogue running alongside more disciplined and structured engagements.
Staff
Matthew
Robertson
Michael
Tooby
Ben
Parry
Andrea
Medjesi
Senior Lecturer in Painting
John
Wood
Roger
Clarke
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
James
Baggott-Brown
Subject Coordinator for Critical Studies
Robert
Luzar
Stephen
Vaughan
Mariele
Neudecker
Rosemary
Snell
Karen
Richmond
Associate Lecturer for Product and Furniture Design, and Senior Lecturer for Foundation in Art and Design
Keith
Harrison
Research Professor
Kellie
Hindmarch
Jonathan
Kelham
Jenny
Dunseath
Natasha
Kidd
Associate Vice Provost: Creative Engagement
Conor
Wilson
Director of the Art Research Centre and Research Lead for Art
Young In
Hong
Reader in Performance and Textiles
Camilla
Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Rachel
Withers
Research groups, clusters and networks
Material : Art : Science : Environment : Research (MASER)
Material : Making
Material : Participant
Material : Performing
Material : Pedagogy : Future
Material : Art and Technology Research Group
Space Place Practice Network
Operation
The Art Research Centre operates formally through scheduled presentations and seminars to support all staff. In addition there are opportunities for informal exchange and discussion across a broad range of subjects in contemporary art focused on staff specialisms such as curatorial practice, artists’ pedagogies, ceramics, and drawing.
Members of the centre provide supervision for our
PhD students
.
Research Projects
Glove Network
Artist Boss
Contact us
For enquiries about the Art Research Centre and postgraduate study please contact Dr Conor Wilson (
c.wilson3@bathspa.ac.uk
).
Masthead image credit: Jenny Dunseath, Elbow Project Final Show 2015
'Contact us' image credit: Keith Harrison,
Ecstatic Material 2019
(photo by Dom Moore/KARST)
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