Colin Priest

Biography

Colin Priest is a Senior Lecturer on MA Interior and Spatial Design (2020-present) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate Interior and Spatial Design at Camberwell College of Arts and was formerly Course Leader for BA Interior and Spatial Design at Chelsea College of Arts (2012-2020). He is also co-founder of Live Projects Network (2011-present), a Fellow of Royal Society of Arts and recipient of UAL Teaching Awards (2016, 2019, 2025). He has published widely on the subject of collaborative pedagogy and live project teaching in and outside the curriculum.

His interdisciplinary place-based research practice incorporates moving-image, installation, writing, archival material and wayfinding. Assembling found and made artefacts, media and narratives, public encounters gently rub fragments of time and space, manifesting as conversation, intervention, publication and gathering. His practice evolves around lively collaborative action and the continual negotiation of the built environment on a site-by-site basis. Location-led research seeks to underscore a sense of place, a shared responsibility toward material, the everyday and architectural heritage. His work has been exhibited in various institutions and public settings, across the UK and further afield.