Research

Fine Art offers a diverse range of expertise across ways of making and approaches to thinking. Staff are interdisciplinary and work across different areas of art production as well as curating exhibitions, writing on art, and writing as art. 

Professor Amanda Beech, co-directs two intercollegiate research groups, The Political Currency of Art and Curating Video that host regular symposia and events, locally and internationally. She has a multimedia practice working through video, drawing and sculpture investigating image, violence and force in neo-liberal democracy and shows her work internationally.

Sarah Turner, Director of Fine Art, is a writer and filmmaker. Her feature films Ecology (2007) and Perestroika (2009) are characterized by explorations of technologies, experimental approaches to writing and an engagement with experiences of narrative, immersion and embodiment within the long form film. Her work has been exhibited at major international festivals, galleries, museums and broadcast.

Angus Pryor, Director of the Arts at Medway specialises in painting.  He co-directs Plastic Propaganda, a platform for artists and writers to co-curate exhibitions.

Rachel Garfield, Lecturer in Fine Art works in a range of media. Her work examines the legacy of identity politics in contemporary culture through narrative construction. Garfield exhibits, lectures and publishes internationally and her art has been featured in recent books by Amelia Jones, Lisa Bloom and Juliet Steyn.

Steve Klee, Lecturer in Fine Art has an interdisciplinary practice that examines the politics of aesthetics and the potentiality of the image as an agent in contemporary culture. He has written extensively on Jacques Ranciere and has exhibited and worked as an independent artist and with London based collectives.

Our associate lecturers all operate as practising artists, curators and writers. They include Tim Meacham, Doug Fishbone and Ruth McLennan. We also have an extensive list of visiting lecturers including Evan Calder Williams, Laura Oldfield Ford, Mark McGowan, Sharon Kivland and Marina Vishmidt.