Fine Art and Photography
The Fine Art and Photography Research Group (FAPRG) is an innovative, rigorous and dynamic interdisciplinary academic team of art practitioners, historians and theoreticians.
Expertise within the FAPRG is extensive and stems from the individual academic’s direct professional experience of operating within the contemporary art world in combination with a cultural, historical, philosophical and political awareness that underpins all aspects of their research specialist area.
Fine Art, , Arts Management, Curating and Commissioning, Performance, Sound, Moving Image, Dance, Philosophy, Historical and Contextual understanding of Art.
The Fine Art and Photography Research Group at 私房俱乐部 invites applications to the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership from UK and EU students. Members of the group and their research interests are listed below:
Fine Art
Louise Clarke
Historical and contemporary drawing and print; Fine art practices.
Photography and Video:
Laura McGregor
All aspects of photography and video.
Lala Meredith Vula (Professor in Art and Photography)
Contemporary photography; Video; Film; Fine art; Contemporary Visual art; Photography and film history; Fine art and photography practice; Focusing particularly themes of migration, diaspora, identity and belonging; Art in Eastern Europe both contemporary and historic.
Dave Soden
How still & moving image, live music performance, song composition, recorded sound design and interactive installation, can be incorporated into a process of investigation leading to new insights.
Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography
Martin Shakeshaft
Art and Design Education; Documentary Photography; New Art and Emerging Photography;Marxism (Political Science) ; Landscape photography; Panoramas.
Arts Management:
Maurice Maguire
Public art; Arts and regeneration projects; One off events; Commissions and artist-led programmes.
Drama Studies
Dr Helene Goldwater
Intimacy and transgression, viscerality, corporeality, sexuality in performance; Uncertainty of the live moment; Audience/performer relationship in the making/performing of performance; Hybridity, the ’alien’/ ‘other’.
Dance:
Dr Martin Leach
Tadeusz Kantor; Alexander technique; Anatomy, Physiology and movement studies in relation to performance;Philosophy and performance.
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