MPhil/PhD research
Past Projects
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Onya McCausland
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Turning Landscape into Colour is an investigation into the origins of earth pigments - ‘ochres’ found in landscapes across the UK that considers their significance as contemporary cultural materials.
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Florian Roithmayr
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Moulding and casting are widely used techniques of modern and contemporary sculptural practices. But their applications are also employed beyond the disciplinary art canon, in areas not immediately associated with art making. The ambition of this research project is to...
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Henrietta Simson
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Single point perspective and photographic technologies of sight have been implicated in a dominating western way of seeing, referred to here as 'natural vision' for the past 500 years.
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Sonia Bridge
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What is at stake within Breer’s process and distinctive employment of cinematic assemblage within the postwar period, is not only the desire to investigate non-traditional sites and techniques and to inclusively claim, say, the moving-image as an artistic medium, but...
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Fiona Curran
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Fiona Curran's practice-related PhD considers the role of visual and material practices since the 1960s in relation to the environmental impact of new technologies and anthropogenic climate change, focusing on the critical significance of landscape in examining conditions of power...
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Yva Jung
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This research examines the notions of journey, pause and composition through art practice.
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Aaron Murphy
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My practice-led research explores the Jungian idea of synchronicity, and related topics like Tao, coincidence and chance.
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Johan Thom
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In this research project I show how a performative, material reading of the artwork provides for an interpretive framework constituted as much by the form, subject matter and context of the artwork, as by the viewer’s embodied experience thereof.
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Eleanor Morgan
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I create videos, sculptures prints and drawings that explore material and mythical entanglements between humans and animals. This has led me to weave silk from living spiders, immerse myself in a giant green sea anemone and create a staring match...
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Deborah Padfield
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This thesis explores how photographic images can expand pain dialogue in the consulting room to include aspects of experience frequently omitted using traditional measures.
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Theresia Peng
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An investigatation of questions concerning the cross-cultural analysis and utility of images in Tibetan Tantric Buddhist art, as opposed to political conflicts that often arise in the media now.
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Kai Syng Tan
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Kai Syng Tan's practice-related Fine Art thesis performs a discourse of ‘trans-running’ – running physically and poetically, and running as both subject and approach – as a playful methodology to transform our world today.
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Elly Thomas
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In this practice-related study I use a range of play theory to examine the creative processes behind the work of Eduardo Paolozzi, Philip Guston and Tony Oursler. All three artists express a need to create a semblance of life.
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Tim Long
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My thesis examines work by Antonin Artaud, Henry Darger, Marcel Duchamp, and Pablo Picasso, with the intention of subjecting specific works by these artists to critical tests employing the idea proposed by Antonin Artaud's subjectile, that is a paradoxical fusion...
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Laura Cinti
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Laura Cinti is a practicing artist working within the intersections of art, biology and nanotechnology.
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Mikhail Karikis
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Mikhail Karikis' doctoral research was a methodological experiment, which employed academic writing, music composition and art practice to explore notions of the 'self' through the study of voice and sound.
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Aura Satz
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This research project examined the concept of mediated presence through the perception of inanimate images coming to life, and the converse experience of human actors becoming inanimate images, whilst interrogating how this might articulate, substantiate or defy belief.
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Raimi Gbadamosi
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The inter-relationship between race, power and language has been chronicled in various forms. And despite attempts at renegotiation, the nature of polemical positioning does not seem to change. Visual polemics finds itself constantly defined and framed by cultural politics, placing...
