Staff in Fine Art at Newcastle includes artists, art historians and curators, and they work across:
Our technicians and support staff are also a key part of the team.
I work between contemporary sculpture, participatory performance events, and socially engaged practice. My work explores the role art can play as an active agent in society. Read more about Neil
My research explores queer life and art from the 1970s to present with a focus on the HIV and AIDS crisis, queer worldmaking practices, preservation, and politics of urban space. Read more about Fiona
I work largely with performance, often using texts, video fragments and choreographies. My work is influenced by creative approaches to working together. Read more about Giles
I make satirical video art and film that comments on the troubling and frequently absurd nature of contemporary existence. I restage myths and fairytales in hyper-saturated near futures, touching on issues of national identity, class and gender. Read more about Rachel.
I am a Lecturer in Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies. My research interests have focussed towards the expanded field of the curatorial. A transdisciplinary discursive mode of working that crosses interdisciplinary lines in contemporary art, museums and heritage. Read more about Gayle
I'm a painter and cultural theorist. My artistic and academic work has focused on questioning the nature of visibility and exploring some of the ways in which images become susceptible to erosion. Read more about Christian.
I work with all things digital. I focus on Audio and Video using Adobe suite software. My own interest included Audio electronics and Electronic Music composition. Read more about Mick
My main responsibility is the Metal workshop. I also look after the kilns and ceramic equipment and support sculpture / 3D projects in a wide range of media. Teaching specialist skills and techniques such as CNC plasma cutting. Read more about Stephen.
My research examines the politics of contemporary art production, drawing primarily on Marxist-feminist theories of labour. My background is in community art and socially engaged practices. Read more about Harry.
I'm a sculptor and site-specific installationist. My work is engaged with wonder, investigating the threshold between aesthetic and scientific realms. Read more about Irene.
My main responsibilities include running the casting workshop facilities, supporting students in making installations and studio projects, and managing exhibition Fine Art spaces. Read more about Mark
I work with a range of media, often involving clay. I lead two AHRC-funded research projects: 'Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience' and 'Art Writing Work.' Read more about Andrew
I'm an artist whose practice is primarily concerned with the examination and critical deconstruction of architecture, public spaces and the interactions we have with our environment. Read more about Wolfgang
I've been working with Louise Wilson as an artist duo for over two decades. I work with photography and the moving image Read more about Jane.
I've been working with Jane Wilson as an artist duo for over two decades. I work with photography and the moving image. Read more about Louise
I'm the coordinator for LifeWorkArt (LWA), a professional development programme for fine art students and also teach a postgraduate course on freelancing arts, culture and media. Read more about David.
I'm a video artist working with animation and game-like landscapes and structures, often games proper. My practice focuses on the murky borderlands along the arbitrary line separating 'real' and 'fictional', and the kind of lives and experiences that are possible there. Read more about Petra
My work is driven by a desire to give form to inchoate thoughts and feelings. I’m interested in clay’s capacity for recording marks and gestures and its subsequent relationship with text and narrative Read more about Katie
I work across digital media, video installation, film, photography and sound. My practice usually explores specific landscapes, asking questions of their relevance and our emotive response to them. Read more about James.
I'm a printmaker and socially engaged artist working with artists books, zines and broadsides. Printmaking provides a platform for my focus on social history, using archives, working with libraries and museums to fulfil projects. Read more about Theresa
My research interests span modern and contemporary art from North Africa and the Middle East, archives, photography, gender, and memory. Read more about Katarzyna
I work with painting, wall painting, drawing, collage, installation and more recently sound and film. My practice investigates architectural, fictional and imagined space, and also site-specificity of painting/drawing. Read more about Catrin.
I'm an art historian with an interest in the relationship between art and science, and the history of the body. Previous research has examined the relationship between life science and sculptural production in interwar Britain. Read more about Edward
My practice articulates and engages with social and political concerns through the languages of photography, video, sculptural installation, and sound. My work often grows out of a sustained involvement with specific sites and their wider social and political reaches. Read more about Uta.
I run the wood workshop in Fine Art and supports students in all their woodworking needs. I demonstrate woodworking skills, techniques and processes to students and induct them in the safe use of tools and machinery. Read more about Joseph.
I work as both an artist and interaction designer. I develop methods from experimental design research to bring speculative, sensory and embodied knowledge to bear on situations where culture, technology and forms of social life come together. Read more about Tom
Printmaking is my primary source of practice. I'm interested in working with projects that have historic, political relationship with Mexican popular prints but also owing to its unique qualities of reproduction and graphic possibilities. Read more about Erika.
Richard is an art historian with a particular interest in iconoclasm’s place in visual cultures. Read more about Richard.
I work in moving image and performance, and run queer arts organisation Pollyanna. Often working collaboratively and with new technologies, my work is filled with original songs and is engaged with reimagined forms of cabaret, untold histories, outpours of emotion. Read more about Adam.
I am an artist whose work and research draws on queer histories, folklore, myth, personal symbol and subcultural codes that speak to thresholds of desire, longing and to the complexities of intimate personal relationships. Read more about Nick's work here.
I'm an artist and musician interested in the relationships between site, sound and technology. My practice is concerned with the many ways people listen, specifically how listening environments can be constructed or explored using a diverse range of techniques and technologies. Read more about Tim.
My main responsibilities in the department are providing print making support and analogue B&W darkroom techniques for students. My primary interests as an artist range from printmaking to analogue photography. Read more about Jade
I'm an artist whose practice revolves around drawing and the exploration of linear perspective. This interest in drawing has developed out of originally working in sculpture and finding that line, plane and space lay at the root of my exploration and my practice. Read more about Richard.
My practice is centred on a number of inter-related themes: site as a manifestation of erasure, trace and memory; the “unmonumental”, and the afterlife of artworks, their storage and documentation. Read more about Chris.
I am an art historian with expertise in photography and new media. I have written about interchanges between art and intellectual ideas, national identity, and landscapes. Currently, I am concerned with the role of visual culture in shaping a cultural response to current environmental crises.
My work as an artist and curator broadly investigates the ways that language and narrative are used to make sense of the world around us, and how narratives in turn generate worlds of their own. Read more about Richard here.
I'm an art historian who specialises in the art and theory of the postwar United States, with a particular interest in the discourse of Modernist painting in the 1950s and 1960s. Read more about Stephen.
My research encompasses objects, installation, photographs, film, collage and more recently sound and performance, together forming an interrogation of what ‘liveness’ might mean within the context of sculpture. Read more about Jo.
I'm currently the Dean of Culture and Creative Arts. My research focuses on the relationship between art and the urban environment, focusing on places undergoing change and issues of narrative and memory Read more about Venda.
