MPhil/PhD research
Active Projects
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Mary Yacoob
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I am investigating how aesthetic and material practices can contribute to how we produce and communicate meaning in diagrammatic form. My project explores how diagramming can be a creative bridge between disciplines.
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Zeinab Feiz
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This interdisciplinary (design/textile and fine art) research explores the influence of Iranian carpet designs on abstract painting in Iran.
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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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Svetlana De Sequeira Costa
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My PhD occurs at a historic turning point, as the world is undergoing a multidimensional polycrisis affecting the planetary system and calling for radical shifts in our considerations of the future.
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Hugh Nicholson
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While scholarship at the intersection of contemporary art and ecological crisis proliferates within the academy, comparatively little is written on the burgeoning market of capitalist ‘solutions’ that purport to identify, address and resolve discrete or individuated problems.
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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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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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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. My imagery depicts cultural diversity of people by including crowds, iconic buildings and sculptures alongside self-portraits...
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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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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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Shao-Jie Lin
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This practice-led artistic research is conducted from the perspective of a Taiwanese Indigenous artist, drawing on the territorial knowledge of the Puyuma people alongside Taiwan’s geopolitical survival strategies to explore freedom of movement through a series of artworks and interventions.
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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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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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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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Jumana Emil Abboud
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My PhD will regenerate a storytelling practice around water sources, magnifying collective voices and imaginaries of the dispossessed.
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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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Katarzyna Depta-Garapich
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My practice-led research project “Neither Subject nor Object”: Ferality, Solastalgia and Strange Tools of Situated Practice explores how solastalgia, emotional and existential distress caused by environmental change and the personal experience of grief and anxiety can be articulated through art...
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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...
Past Projects
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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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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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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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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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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.
