Camberwell College of Arts researchers and their areas of art and design expertise.
Senior Lecturer in Photography
- Expanded photography and moving image practice.
- History, theory and speculative futures of photography.
- Moving image as site-specific spatial practice.
- Media archaeology, operational images and machine vision.
- Theory-fiction and performative writing.
Juan Bolivar
Lecturer - BA Fine Art: Painting
- Modernism and geometric abstraction.
- Early European avant-garde, North and South American abstraction.
- Early and mid-century comics, popular culture: music, film and T.V. (1980s and 90s).
- Intertextuality.
- Language.
- Memory studies.
Lecturer in Creative Computing, Creative Computing Institute
- Science and technology studies (STS).
- Non-representational theory and emancipated modes of academic writing.
- Epistemologies and pedagogies of inclusion.
- Posthuman and postdisciplinary methodological innovation.
- Creative computing and robotics, computational arts.
Dr Sheena Calvert
Senior Lecturer - Contextual Studies (Design)
- Typography.
- Design/art.
- Artists' books.
- Philosophy (of language, politics and ethics).
William Cobbing
Senior Lecturer - BA Fine Art: Drawing
- Sculpture theory and practice, clay, ceramics.
- Art and psychoanalysis.
- Archiving.
- Performance art.
- Concrete poetry.
Professor Paul Coldwell
Professor in Fine Art Printmaking
- Collections and archives.
- Printmaking - new and old technologies.
- Fine art.
Maia Conran
Course Leader - BA Fine Art: Photography
- Fine art.
- Film, video and photography.
- Media infrastructures.
- Media archaeology and collage.
- Collaborative practice.
David Cross
Reader in Fine Art
- Fine art, context specific sculptural installation and photography.
Dr Kimathi Donkor
Reader in Painting and Black Art and Programme Director Painting
- Fine art practice, painting and drawing.
- Art, race, blackness and national identity.
- Fine art museums and collections.
Max Dovey
Pathway Leader - MA Fine Art: Computational Arts
- Algorithmic and interactive art.
- Performance and liveness studies.
- Digital materialities.
Professor in Painting
- Fine art painting.
Course Leader - BA Fine Art: Sculpture
- Amnesia and belonging in visual art.
- Imagination as a social practice.
- The relationship between poetics and politics in installation art.
- Economy and history of materials in installation art.
Reader in Art and Media Practice
- Photography, art and media practice.
- Image perception and cognition: stillness and movement, embodied perception, attention and temporality, modes of address.
Pathway Leader - MA Fine Art: Printmaking
- Fine art, printmaking, drawing, photography, visual perception, materiality and surface.
Lecturer - BA Graphic Design
- Politically engaged art practice.
- Socially engaged art practice.
- The role of the artist.
- Climate Justice.
- Knitting and photography.
- Displacement.
- Gentrification.
Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory
- Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, art and society.
- Feminist art practice.
- Modern and contemporary art history and theory.
Professor Daniel Sturgis
Professor in Painting
- Fine art painting, curation, the histories of abstraction, modernism and the baroque.
Course Leader - BA Illustration
- Illustration and heritage.
- Critical heritage studies.
- Museum interpretation.
- Illustration as voice.
Reader in Time Based Media and Performance
- Fine Art practice involving; moving image and performance, moving image and experimental writing, moving image and popular genres including as sci-fi, folk tales and fantasy.
Reader in Illustration
- Illustration research and theory.
- Illustration and community.
- Public sphere and participation.
- Visual cultures, rhetoric and methodologies.
Dr Niki Wallace
Course Leader - MA Global Collaborative Design Practice
- Just transitions and transformations (particularly design’s role).
- Complex collaboration (particularly in relation to design for transitions).
- Psychology of change and designing for grief.
- Circular design and design for circular economies.
- Regenerative design tools, techniques and games.
Dr Ken Wilder
Reader in Spatial Design
- Beholding, aesthetics and situated art.
- Architectural / spatial design practices and aesthetics.
Senior Lecturer - BA Fine Art: Painting
- Fine art painting (including the expanded field of painting) and curation.
- The performative possibilities of painting.
Postgraduate Theory Coordinator
- Contemporary art, design labour and future studies.
- Gender studies, biopolitics and transnationalism.