Dr Gareth Proskourine-Barnett is an artist:designer, researcher and educator based in London (UK). He is the Course Leader for MA Illustration Practices (Online). Over the past 15 years, Gareth has taught widely across Illustration, Visual Communication and Art and Design, developing curricula that foreground practice-led research and thinking through making; helping students to situate their work critically within cultural, ethical and political contexts.
Operating at the intersection of architecture, technology and visual matter, Gareth's practice applies an expanded approach to image-making, working across visual essays, publishing projects, lecture-performances, participatory workshops and exhibition making. His current research explores forensic fictioning in relation to fragments, materials and surfaces, tracing the slippages of meaning that occur as objects move across time, media and memory.
Previous projects have been presented internationally, including at the V&A Digital Futures Symposium (London), The New Art Gallery Walsall, the REFORM Design Biennale (Denmark), and Plan8t (Changsha, China). Alongside his practice, he has undertaken residencies and delivered workshops across a range of institutional and public contexts.
Gareth completed a PhD in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art. His research examined the afterlife of Birmingham Central Library, using digital and archival methods to reconstruct the building as a multi-temporal site. Through a combination of images, objects, writing and performance, the project reimagined Brutalist architecture as an unstable and speculative form, engaging with questions of memory, materiality and the future of the built environment.
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett Studio
MA Illustration Pratices (Online)
Read an interview with Gareth discussing his work and the course.