Research group: Art | Manchester Metropolitan University

Research group: Art | Manchester Metropolitan University
Research group: Art
Developing new forms of research within the expanded field of contemporary art.
About our research
We are an internationally recognised group of artists, curators and writers producing world-leading exhibitions, writing and books. A key focus is developing collaborative projects that create new configurations of knowledge across our research clusters:
Art and Archive Futures: Working creatively with archives, digital data and code to bridge the gap between historic and future archives.
Curating and Fine Art: Practical and theoretical research into contemporary art and curating.
Memory and Matter: Re-examining the past using contemporary context through visual art, performance art and art research.
Our research team
Art and Archives Futures research cluster
Art and Archives Futures research cluster
Eileen Simpson, reader and lead
Curating and Fine Art research cluster
Curating and Fine Art research cluster
Gulsen Bal
Sutapa Biswas, reader
Jenny Eden
Dave Evans
Andrew Lacon
Alnoor Mitha
Ian Rawlinson, reader
Emily Speed
Andrew Warstat
Keith Wilson, professor
Duncan Wooldridge
, reader
Memory and Matter research cluster
Memory and Matter research cluster
Chara Lewis
Brigid McLeer
, lead
Oran O’Reilly
David Osbaldeston
, reader, lead
Early career researchers
Early career researchers
Gabriele Aroni
Anne-Marie Atkinson
Thomas Clark
Occulta Dama
Sara Davies
Zoe Fletcher
Jens Haendeler
Sophie Lee
Bea Martin
Lydia Merrett
Polly Palmerini
Caitlin Smith
Rebecca Smith
Michelle Stephens
Affiliate members
Affiliate members
Jennifer Baines
Muhammad Babar Suleman
Keith Crome
Morolaike Dairo
Daniel Dubowitz
Philip Ely
Rachel Genn
Dominica Harrison
Sofia Jones
Brigitte Jurack
April Kalu
Elizabeth Kealy-Morris
Martha Lineham
Patrick Lonergan
Rachel Magdeburg
Zoe Parker Moon
David Penny
Katie Tomlinson
Joe Trickett
Adinda Van’t Klooster
Adam Walker
James Wrigley
Selected projects
Ancestral Avant-Gardes conference
Approaches to ancestrality in contemporary art and performance.
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You can contact individual members of the team through their staff profiles.
For general enquiries, please contact our acting research group lead,
David O
[email protected]
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