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Staff Research Profiles


The research interests of staff across Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon collectively represent a rich array of expertise.  Listed below are staff located at Chelsea College of Art and Design - not only from within the Graduate School, but also research active staff who teach on Chelsea's undergraduate and foundation programmes.  For details of researchers based at Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges, and from across the University of the Arts London, please see the links to the right.
Index

A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z


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Professor Roger Ackling

Current Research: relationship between time and place; concepts of staying put and dwelling.

Gill Addison

Current Research: expanded documentary practices, textual and practical.

Ana Araujo

Current research: crossover between spatial, textile and graphic design

Emily Artinian

Current Research: artists' books, art and literature, narrative structures, reader reception theory, fictional imagination

Dr. Michael Asbury

Current Research: Contributes to the debate on strategies for rewriting the history of so-called 'peripheral cultures'.

Edwina Ashton

Current Research: drawings and films exploring fantastical characters which pursue a sombre, and restrained scepticism.

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Dr Amanda Beech

Current Research: rhetoric force, neoliberalism, critique, asethetics, politics, democracy, agency

Dr. Anna Basham

Current Research: Design History and Transnational Art, Japonisme, British modernism in architecture

Dave Beech

Current research: contemporary art practices and debates

Lorna Bircham

Current Research: Sustainable Textile Design

Sutapa Biswas

Current Research: explores time, process, gender and subjectivities through the medium of film and drawing

Isobel Bowditch

Current Research: working in a 'hybrid space' across Continental Philosophy and Fine Art practice.

Melanie Bowles

Current Research: exploring digital print techniques with traditional print methods on fabrics

Jo Bruton

Current Research: Painting and the feminine,The female performer and spectacle within painting

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Kate-Rose Carrick

Current Research: Theatrical and filmic devices, Phantasy, Phantom Limb, displacement, matter out of place, uncanny

Frank Cartledge

Current Research: Subculture, material culture, memory, theory, 20c Design

Brian Chalkley

Current Research: involved with working with transgender identity, through performance, drawing painting, book publication an

Andrew Chesher

Current Research: Documentary, Dialogue, Social Practice, Philosophy, Images of Labour

John Clayman

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Wayne Clements

Current Research: new media, computers, cybernetics, practice based degrees, electronic text

Richard Clegg

Current Research: Sculpture, Installation, Painting

Paul Coldwell

Current Research: Printmaking, sculpture, digital printmaking, Morandi, practice based fine art research, curating

Phillip Courtenay

Current Research: Virtual space, Public art, International exchange

John Crossley

Current Research: a series that sets out to explore issues of memory, intimacy and location. All works have a ..........

Prof. Neil Cummings

Current Research:includes collaborative creative practice; the re-animation of the public domain and the creative ...........

Dr. John Cussans

Current Research: explores the historical relation between psychological models of mind - especially those concerned with

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Jeffrey Dennis

Current Research: painter whose work embodies the diversity and inventive possibilities of painting now.

Sarah Dobai

Current Research: Photography, film, video, narrative, portraiture, billboards.

Isabel Dodd

Current research: three dimensional manipulation of fabrics

Bernice Donszelmann

Current Research: Wall drawing, Architecture, Spatial experience and the body, Interdisciplinary practices

Sean Dower

Current Research: Artist's music video, Live Performance, DVD, Popular Culture, Sculpture.

Professor Linda Drew

Current Research: Learning, Teaching, Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Phenomenography

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Rebecca Earley

Current Research: Eco-Design, Fashion, Textiles, New Textile Technologies, Contemporary Craft Practice

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Darren Farrell

Current Research: 2D Dreams: Perception of 3D, from inscription, to mass & void, and light & shade.

Professor Stephen Farthing

Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Drawing. Current Research: Developing a curriculum for teaching drawing

Amanda Faulkner

Current Research: Drawing, Narrative, Human body as vehicle for exploration of internal conflict

Dr. Mary Anne Francis

Current Research: Authorship and agency, The radically diverse artist, 'Social Art' practices

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Professor David Garcia

Current Research: tactical media, networks, new social movements

Lucy Gunning

Current research: The 'in between' in relation to Architecture; social implications of formlessness

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Rupert Hartley

Current Research: interest in the idea of in -between states, perceptual points or places existing between the real, ........

Professor Clyde Hopkins

(Retired 2006) Current Research: paintings in studios in London and on the Sussex coast, normally using oil paint on canvas.

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Dr Yuko Kikuchi

Current Research: Craft, art and design history, Japanese Studies, Cultural Studies, Post-colonial theory, national identity.

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Phillip Lai

Current research: containment & dispersal; form of subjectivity; indeterminacies of collective space

Dr Gwendolyn Leick

Current Research: Mesopotamia, urbanism (ancient and modern)

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Peter Maloney

Current Research: Parallel Spaces, Virtual Reality+Simulation, Media Arts,Models+Visual Thought/idea Visualisation

Maxine Mason

Current Research: Event participation, intervention, sound, club-culture sampling

Jo Melvin

Current research: representation of 'new art practices' as quixotic projects from the '60s and '70s.

David Musgrave

Current Research: Drawing, image, matter, object, transformation, cognition

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Dr. Hayley Newman

Current Research: Performance, Documentation, Event, Authenticity, the gaze, subjectivity

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James O'Leary

Current Research: interactive spatial systems, constellatory architecture, site specific practice.

Dr. Tim O'Riley

Current Research: Space, representation; imaginary journeys; photography, animation; physics.

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Elizabeth Peebles

Current Research: early 19thC art, architecture, literature [Ph.O.Runge, Goethe, Novalis, K.F.Schinkel].Contempora.....

Kay Politowicz

Current Research: Interior textiles, innovation in fabric use, design to prioritise environmental strategies.

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Dr. Barbara Rauch

Current Research: Contemporary art practice, the dreaming brain/mind, virtual environments, hyper-associative thought.

Sue Ridge

Current Research: Public Art ( Critical Social Space ), Photographic, Digital, Site Specific, Collaborative

Dr. Fernando Rihl

Current Research: Furniture/Technology/ Architecture/ Complex structures/ Distorted Spaces

Kathryn Round

Current Research: Printed textiles, publishing, book art

Karin Ruggaber

Current Research: interested in the border area between an object and the architectural aspects of functionality and framing

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Caryn Simonson

Current Research: Gender, Identity, Masquerade, Skin and Cloth, and Cyborgs

Professor Stephen Scrivener

Current Research: Collaborative design, Computer-mediated design, User-centred participatory design, Practice-based research

Stefan Shankland

Current Research:Sculptural approach to post-consumption and waste, Art in the public domain, Art /environmental/sociological

Dr. Dan Smith

Current Research: art criticism, material culture, utopia, museology, archives and science fiction.

Donald Smith

Director, CHELSEA Space gallery

Peter Stickland

Current Research: Spaces and Narrations, Performance Furniture, Narrative Architecture, Spatial Installations.

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Tomris Tangaz

Current Research: Curating Contemporary Design, process-based collaborations

Mo Throp

Current Research: Fine Art, Curating, practitioner/researcher/teacher Identity, Subjectivity, Feminism, Psychoanalysis,

Carol Tulloch

Current Research: Writing and curating on dress and the African diaspora; development of black identities around the body.

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Professor Chris Wainwright

Current Research: photography, fine art, climate change

Tracey Waller

Current Research: explores concepts and theory of experiential learning.Exploring live briefs, Case studies from industry,

Dr. Maria Walsh

Current Research: Artist's film & video installation, film narrative & theory, spectatorship

Professor Toshio Watanabe

Current Research: Transnational Art, Japonisme, Modernity and Identity in Art, Orientalism, Nationalism in Art

Ken Wilder

Current Research: addresses architectural issues. I make gallery installations which often ........

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