Dr Mark Ingham

Biography

I am an artist, researcher, educator and a Reader in Critical and Nomadic* Pedagogies, a National Teaching Fellow (2021), Co-Chair of UAL’s Professoriate, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a UAL Senior Teaching Scholar in the Design School at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. https://markingham.org/

Co-founder of UAL’s Experimental Pedagogies Research Group (EPRG):. https://eprg.arts.ac.uk/ https://bsky.app/profile/eprg.bsky.social
Assembler of the Nomadic Detective Agency: https://nomadicdetectiveagency.org/
Lines of Flight at Cosmic Artisan at: https://bsky.app/profile/cosmic-artisan.bsky.social

My pedagogical and creative research over the last 45 years have been entangled encounters with: images of thought and memory, rhizomatic & meta-cognitive learning theories, fuzzy narratives and virtual and physical liminal teaching spaces. My research critiques relationships between autobiographical memory, installation art and photography, Deleuzian and Guattarian ideas of ‘becoming rhizomatic’, assembling agency, nomadic thinking, and active blended learning, with ideas of belonging with critical and nomadic pedagogies.

I have supervised over 20 PhD students 8 to completion and 12 currently in progress. I am an internal and external PhD examiner for over 10 doctoral candidates.

I have been in creative arts education since 1979 as: a student, associate lecturer, lecturer, senior lecturer, principal lecturer, educational researcher, artist researcher, artist and a Reader in Critical and Nomadic Pedagogies. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA),. A UAL Senior Teaching Scholar and a National Teaching Fellow.

I have taught in Primary and Secondary Schools and have a PGCE in post 16 Education from the Institute of Education and am a qualified QTS Secondary School teacher. I have also taught in Prisons, Art Galleries, Museums, Forest Schools Camps and for over 30 years in Art, Design and Media Departments in Creative Universities. I have been a Head of Department, Postgraduate Programme Leader at the University of Greenwich, Contextual Studies Co-ordinator and Programme Director at UAL


"A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window." Gilles Deleuze (A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia)

"Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade." Donna Haraway (A Cyborg Manifesto)

“Art struggles with chaos but it does so in order to render it sensory.” Deleuze and Guattari:
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole." Derek Walcott

*The origin of the word ‘nomad’ for Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, is not, as many have assumed, a romanticised image of actual nomadic peoples, such as the Bedouins, but rather Immanuel Kant's disparaging claim that the outside of philosophy is a wasteland fit only for nomads.

Keywords: Critical Pedagogy, Nomadic Pedagogy, Rhizomatic Learning, Assemblages, Installation art, conceptual art, photography, autobiographical memory, fuzzy narratives, sculpture, projected images, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari.