This research programme enables you to develop your work in an intensive period of study in an ambitious and challenging research environment. You have your own studio space in which to explore and test your studio work, with full access to workshops and high quality resources at our new multi-million pound development on the Chatham Historic Dockyard, just 45 minutes from London.

The programme welcomes students who wish to pursue any form of artistic practice in an interdisciplinary studio-based research environment. Research students are supported through their studies by a supervisory team and regular supervisory meetings.

You are provided with research methodology training sessions to ground and support your research in its early stages, as well as offered a breadth of research seminars, workshops and symposia.

Research students are encouraged to enrole on the Researcher Development Programme provided by the University's Graduate School, and to attend regular Research Centre and Research Group led events. You have access to a national and international cross-disciplinary visiting lecture series enabling you to access specialists in your territory and beyond.

The Department 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.

You have access to the wide variety of research events that take place at Medway and Canterbury campuses. These links with the Canterbury campus remain key to our research culture where regular events, symposia and exhibitions are held in collaboration with different departments and disciplines.

Full details of staff research interests can be found on our website.

Dr Rachel Garfield: Director of Undergraduate Studies

Rachel Garfield is an artist and writer engaged in portraiture in film and video, the role of lived relations in the formation of subjectivity and Jewish identity. Although primarily her work would be regarded as video-based fine art shown in gallery contexts, the work has an ongoing relationship with the traditions and concerns of avant-garde documentary film. Her work has included: Samvaad Video Screenings: 1 Shanti Road Studio Gallery, Bangalore; Shrishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore; Fine art Deptartement Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi; Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) Reading Room, New Delhi.

Dr Steve Klee: Lecturer

Steve Klee works primarily in video. In the last five years he has shown in London at (among other places) The David Roberts Arts Foundation, 176 Gallery, Five Years Gallery, No.w.here Gallery, Limehouse Town Hall, Zoo Art Fair and Event Gallery. His work has also been shown in Glasgow at Tramway and Transmission Galleries and at Lena Rosselli Gallery, Budapest. Writing about art and writing as art is another important focus. He has produced texts on the video installations of Aernout Mik as well as contributing fiction pieces for Frozen Tears, a collection of artists' writing, curated by John Russell. His recent PhD by Practice concentrated on the aesthetic and political philosophy of Jacques Rancière.

Dr Grant Pooke FRSA: Senior Lecturer

Contemporary British art; Marxist art historiography, the Cold War and aesthetics; developing teaching approaches to art history; art histories, boundaries and aspects of the postcolonial. Recent publications include: Contemporary British Art: An Introduction (2010); Understand Contemporary Art: Teach Yourself (co-author, 2010); Understand Art History (co-author, 2010); Fifty Key Texts in Art History (co-ed, 2011); The Art of Revolution: Illustrated by the Collection of the Marx Memorial Library (co-author, 2011).

Angus Pryor: Senior Lecturer

Angus Pryor is a painter with interests in oil-based painting; the use of colour and tactility within contemporary practice; the concept of the surface within the modernist tradition of art. His own paintings explore narratives of the imagination.

Sarah Turner: Senior Lecturer; Head of Fine Art

Sarah Turner is an artist and film maker who trained at St Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. Her research interests include the formal preoccupations of the avant-garde; new narrative forms; the cinematic potential of subjective storytelling and technologies of memory.

Visiting artists and lecturers

Our associate lecturers all operate as practising artists, curators and writers. These include: Tim Meacham, Evan Calder Williams, Stewart Home, Doug Fishbone, Ruth McLennan, Sharon Kivland, Alasdair Hopwood, John Cussans and Owen Hatherley.

Further information:

• School website
• School staff profiles

T: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk

Kathryn Sansom
Recruitment & Admissions Administrator
School of Arts, Old Surgery
University of Kent
Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent ME4 4TZ
T: +441634 202962
E: arts-pgadmin@kent.ac.uk

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