Institutional Members 2017

All

Arts University Bournemouth

Richard Waring

Principal Lecturer – Fine Art

Wallisdown

Poole

BH12 5HH
United Kingdom
rwaring@aub.ac.uk
http://aub.ac.uk/courses/ba/ba-fine-art/
Arts University Bournemouth

Simon Granell

Course Leader MA Fine Art

Arts University Bournemouth

Fernbarrow, Wallisdown

Poole

BH12 5HH
United Kingdom
sgranell@aub.ac.uk sgranell@aub.ac.uk
http://www.aub.ac.uk
Bath Spa University

Dan Allen

Head of Fine Art

Newton St Loe

Bath

BA2 9BN
United Kingdom
d.allen@bathspa.ac.uk d.allen@bathspa.ac.uk
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Barbara Marcel

PhD Candidate

Karl-Marx-Str. 26

12043 Berlin
Germany
barbara.marcel@yahoo.com.br
https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/media/research-and-art/doctoral-degree-phddrphil/
Blackburn College

Jamie Holman

The Coach House

Crook O'Lune

Caton

LA2 9HS
United Kingdom
j.holman@blackburn.ac.uk
http://www.blackburn.ac.uk/
Bradford College

Jill Good

Course Leader

Great Horton Road

Bradford

BD7 1AY
United Kingdom
j.good@bradfordcollege.ac.uk
https://www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk
Chelsea College of Arts

Martin Newth

Programme Director of BA Fine Art

16 John Islip Street

London

SW1P 4JU
United Kingdom
m.newth@chelsea.arts.ac.uk m.newth@chelea.ac.uk
http://www.arts.ac.uk/chelsea/
Coventry University

Jane Ball

Senior Lecturer

Priory Street

Coventry

CV1 5FB
United Kingdom
arx220@coventry.ac.uk j.ball@coventry.ac.uk
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/life-on-campus/faculties-and-schools/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities/?theme=main
Croydon School of Art

Steven Scott

College Road

Croydon

CR9 1DX
United Kingdom
scotts@croydon.ac.uk
http://www.croydon.ac.uk/courses/school-of-art-home-page
De Montfort University

Benedict Carpenter

Head of Fine Art

The Gateway

Leicester

LE1 9BH
United Kingdom
ben.carpenter@dmu.ac.uk
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/schools-and-departments/school-of-arts/index.aspx
Edinburgh College

Alan Holligan

350 West Granton Road

Edinburgh

EH5 1QE
United Kingdom
alan.holligan@blueyonder.co.uk alan.holligan@edinburghcollege.ac.uk
Glasgow School of Art

Alistair Payne

Head of School of Fine Art

167 Renfrew Street

Glasgow

G3 6RQ
United Kingdom
a.payne@gsa.ac.uk
http://www.gsa.ac.uk/
Glyndwr University

Susan Liggett

Reader in Art and Design Head of the Research Centre for Creative Arts

Mold Road

Wrexham

LL11 2AW
United Kingdom
s.liggett@glyndwr.ac.uk
http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/
Hereford College of Arts

Dr Daniel Pryde-Jarman

Course Leader

Hereford College of Arts

College Rd

Hereford

HR11EB
United Kingdom
prydejarman@hotmail.com D.Pryde-Jarman@hca.ac.uk
http://www.hca.ac.uk/
Kingston University

Mandy Ure

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture

Knights Park

Kingston

KT1 2QJ
United Kingdom
m.ure@kingston.ac.uk
http://fada.kingston.ac.uk/
Kingston University

Lauren Winsor

Course Director

Knights Park

Kingston-Upon-Thames

KT1 2QJ
United Kingdom
l.winsor@kingston.ac.uk
Leeds Beckett

Lisa Stansbie

Head of School

City Campus

Leeds

LS1 3HE
United Kingdom
L.Stansbie@leedsbeckett.ac.uk L.Stansbie@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/faculties/faculty-of-arts-environment-and-technology/art-architecture-and-design/
Leeds College of Art

Professor Sheila Gaffney

Programme Director Art & Performance

Leeds College of Art

Leeds

LS2 9AQ
United Kingdom
sheila.gaffney@leeds-art.ac.uk sheila.gaffney@leeds-art.ac.uk
http://www.leeds-art.ac.uk/
London Metropolitan University

Gian Carlo Rossi

Head of Subject: Art

Calcutta House

Old Castle Street

London

E1 7NT
United Kingdom
g.rossi@londonmet.ac.uk g.rossi@londonmet.ac.uk
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/schools/the-cass/
Manchester Metropolitan University

Sophie Benson

Director of Studies, Department of Art

Cavendish Street

Manchester

M15 6BR
United Kingdom
s.benson@mmu.ac.uk
http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/
Newcastle University

Richard Talbot

The Quadrangle

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 7RU
United Kingdom
richard.talbot@ncl.ac.uk
Northumbria University

Sue Spark

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences

Squires Building, Sandyford Rd

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE1 8ST
United Kingdom
sue.spark@northumbria.ac.uk
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/
Norwich University of the Arts

Craig Barber

Senior Lecturer Fine Art (painting)

Norwich University of the Arts

Francis House, 3-7 Redwell St

Norwich

NR2 4SN
United Kingdom
c.barber@nua.ac.uk c.barber@nua.ac.uk
Nottingham Trent University

Craig Fisher

Senior lecturer, Fine Art

Burton Street

Nottingham

NG1 4BU
United Kingdom
craig.fisher@ntu.ac.uk
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/art/index.html
Plymouth College of Art

Steven Paige

Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader and MA Subject Tutor

Tavistock Place

Plymouth

PL4 8AT
United Kingdom
spaige@pca.ac.uk spaige@pca.ac.uk
Plymouth College of Art

Steven Paige

Senior Lecturer/Programme Leader

Tavistock Place

Plymouth

PL4 8AT
United Kingdom
spaige@pca.ac.uk spaige@pca.ac.uk
https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/
Q-Art

Sarah Rowles

1 Freshfields Drive

Lancing

BN15 9LN
United Kingdom
sarah.rowles@googlemail.com
http://q-art.org.uk/
Ravensbourne College

Dr Nicholas Lambert

Head of Research: Academic

6 Penrose Way

Greenwich Peninsula

London

SE10 0EW
United Kingdom
n.lambert@rave.ac.uk
https://www.ravensbourne.ac.uk
Royal College of Art

Professor Juan Cruz

Dean

Kensington Gore

London

SW7 2EU
United Kingdom
juan.cruz@rca.ac.uk juan.cruz@rca.ac.uk
http://rca.ac.uk
Staffordshire University

Jessica Longmore

P/T Lecturer Fine Art

College Road

Stoke-on-Trent

ST4 2DE
United Kingdom
jesslongmore@hotmail.com
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/academic_depts/fact/index.jsp
Teesside University

Dr Michael Lent

Head of Fine Art

Borough Road

Middlesbrough

TS1 3BA
United Kingdom
m.lent@tees.ac.uk m.lent@tees.ac.uk
http://www.tees.ac.uk
Univeristy of Wolverhampton

Ms Maggie Ayliffe

Head of School

United Kingdom
e.b.downes@wlv.ac.uk
University for the Creative Arts

Ms Sophia Phoca

Head of School

Falkner Road

Farnham

GU97DT
United Kingdom
sphoca@uca.ac.uk
University of Bolton

Allan Buckingham

Programme leader BA Fine Art, MA Fine Art

Deane Road

Bolton

BL3 5AB
United Kingdom
ab8@bolton.ac.uk
http://www.bolton.ac.uk/Subjects/ArtDesignMedia/Home.aspx
University of Brighton

Alan Boldon

Deputy Head of School

School of Art, Design and Media

Grand Parade Brighton

Brighton

BN2 0JY
United Kingdom
A.Boldon@brighton.ac.uk
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/study/fine-art
University of Central Lancashire

David Alker

Fine Art Programme Area Leader

Media Lab

Preston

PR1 2HE
United Kingdom
dalker@uclan.ac.uk
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/
University of Chester

Neil Grant

Head of Department

Kingsway Building

Newton

Chester

CH2 2LB
United Kingdom
n.grant@chester.ac.uk
http://www.chester.ac.uk/art-design
University of Chichester

Steve McDade

Principal Lecturer and Head of Department, Fine Art

College Lane

Chichester

PO19 6PE
United Kingdom
S.McDade@chi.ac.uk
http://www.chi.ac.uk
University of Cumbria

Professor Robert Williams

Professor of Fine Art

University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts

Brampton Road Campus

Carlisle

CA3 9AY
United Kingdom
robert.williams@cumbria.ac.uk
http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/Home.aspx
University of Derby

Rodger Brown

Acting Deputy Head of Department (Art)

Markeaton Street

Derby

DE22 3AW
United Kingdom
R.G.Brown@derby.ac.uk
http://www.derby.ac.uk/arts/
University of East London

Hedley Roberts

Head of Art & Design

Docklands Campus

University Way

London

E16 2RD
United Kingdom
h.roberts@uel.ac.uk
http://www.uel.ac.uk/
University of Edinburgh

Dean Hughes

Head of the School of Art

Main Building and Hunter Building

74 Lauriston Place

Edinburgh

EH3 9DF
United Kingdom
d.hughes@ed.ac.uk
http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art
University of Gloucestershire

Bob Davison

Course Leader

The Park

Cheltenham

GL50 2RH
United Kingdom
bdavison@glos.ac.uk
http://insight.glos.ac.uk/academicschools/dad/Pages/default.aspx
University of Hertfordshire

Rebecca Thomas

School of Creative Arts

Hatfield

AL10 9AB
United Kingdom
r.thomas@herts.ac.uk Rebecca.thomas@uea.ac.uk
http://www.herts.ac.uk/apply/schools-of-study/creative-arts
University of Huddersfield

Dr Rowan Bailey

Senior Lecturer in Historical and Theoretical Studies/Deputy Lead in Teaching and Learning

Queensgate

CAAG/06 - Creative Arts Building

Huddersfield

HD1 3DH
United Kingdom
R.Bailey@hud.ac.uk r.bailey@hud.ac.uk
https://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/artdesignandarchitecture/
University of Huddersfield

Dr Dale Holmes

Lecturer in Contemporary Art, Yr 1 Lead and strand leader for yr 2 and 3 contemporary art

The University of Huddersfield Queensgate

CAAG/06 - Creative Arts Building

Huddersfield

HD1 3DH
United Kingdom
D.C.Holmes@hud.ac.uk
University of Lincoln

Conan Lawrence

Principal Lecturer

Brayford Pool

Lincoln

LN6 7TS
United Kingdom
clawrence@lincoln.ac.uk clawrence@lincoln.ac.uk
https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/fpa/
University of Portsmouth

Jenny Walden

Associate Dean (Academic)

Portland Building

Portland Street

Portsmouth

PO1 3AH
United Kingdom
jenny.walden@port.ac.uk
http://www.port.ac.uk/
University of Suffolk

Dr Susan Barnet

Course Leader

Waterfront Building

Neptune Quay

Ipswich

IP4 1QJ
United Kingdom
s.barnet@uos.ac.uk
University of Sunderland

Joe Woodhouse

Senior Lecturer

National Glass Centre

Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter's Liberty Way

Sunderland

SR6 0GL
United Kingdom
joe.woodhouse@sunderland.ac.uk
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/faculties/adm/
University of Sunderland

Mike Collier

Reader in Art and Design

National Glass Centre

Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter's Liberty Way

Sunderland

SR6 0GL
United Kingdom
mike.collier@sunderland.ac.uk
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/faculties/adm/research/
University of the Arts

Paul Haywood

Associate Dean for Academic Development

i Granary Square

Kings Cross

London

N1C 4AA
United Kingdom
p.haywood@csm.arts.ac.uk
http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/
University of the arts London

Daniela Amolini

Content Coordinator

2 Granary Square

London
United Kingdom
d.amolini@arts.ac.uk
University of the West England

Wayne Lloyd

Programme Manager - Fine Arts

Bower Ashton Campus

Room 1F4 , Kennel Lodge Road

Bristol

BS3 2JT
United Kingdom
wayne.lloyd@uwe.ac.uk
http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/artsandculturalindustries
University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Catrin Webster

MA Pathway Leader, Visual Communication

Swansea Campus

Mount Pleasant

Swansea

SA1 6ED
United Kingdom
catrin.webster@uwtsd.ac.uk
http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/
University of Westminster

Raine Smith

Level leader Senior lecturer

Watford Road

London

HA1 3TP
United Kingdom
smithra@westminster.ac.uk
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/
University of Wolverhampton

Maggie Ayliffe

Fine Art - Course Leader

Wulfruna Street

Wolverhampton

WV1 1LY
United Kingdom
m.c.ayliffe@wlv.ac.uk m.c.ayliffe@wlv.ac.uk
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/research-institutes-and-centres/cadre---centre-for-art-design-research-and-expe/material-and-theoretical-practice/
West Dean College

Alison Baxter

Head of Creative Enterprise

West Dean College

West Dean

Chichester

po18 0qz
United Kingdom
alison.baxter@westdean.org.uk
Willem de Kooning Academy

Renée Turner

Research Lecturer / Hoofddocent

Blaak 10

3011 TA Rotterdam
Netherlands
geuzen@xs4all.nl
http://www.wdka.nl/?lang=en
Wrexham Glyndŵr University

Professor Alec Shepley

Head of School of Creative Arts and Professor of Contemporary Art Practice

School of Creative Arts

49 Regent Street

Wrexham

LL11 1PF
United Kingdom
alecshepley@btinternet.com alec.shepley@glyndwr.ac.uk

Institutions

NAFAE Events

Annual Symposium

Making Public: The Fine Art Degree Show
Making Public: The Fine Art Degree Show

Event Details

Event Papers

Annual Conference & AGM

Friday, 12 April 2019 (All day)

Event Institution:

Leeds Beckett University

Event Partner:

National Association for Fine Art Education

Event Keynote:

Kirsty Ogg (Curator of The New Contemporaries) & Paul Winstanley

Callout Link:

making-public-fine-art-degree-show

Tags:

AGM

Booking website:

Eventbrite

This event is free to NAFAE members.

Event Address:

Leeds City Art Gallery

The Headrow

Leeds

LS1 3AA
United Kingdom

Venue Google Map:

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Event Contact Name:

Andrew Sheridan

Event Email:

admin@nafae.org.uk

Venue website:

School of Art, Architecture and Design

NAFAE's annual symposium is intended as an opportunity to meet, discuss and exchange ideas. We invite short provocations, poster presentations, and 20 minute papers or case studies.
Call for submissions: abstracts of 200 to 500 words by January 28th, 2019
Email to admin@nafae.org.uk
Register for the symposium:
As a network we are primarily interested in what and how people are producing and how educators and art practitioners are responding to contemporary challenges and contexts across the sector.
The keynote/guest speakers are Kirsty Ogg (Curator of The New Contemporaries) talking about the link between degree shows and the New Contemporaries/graduate exhibitions.
And Paul Winstanley whose book ‘Art School’ documents British Art Schools use of studio and exhibition spaces (usually when empty).

Introduction

Most institutions across the UK that offer Fine Art and Art related degree courses have a “degree show” in the form of a final year exhibition; it is frequently perceived as a standard expectation but is it a platform that meets the diverse needs and ambitions of the whole student cohort?
Are there practices that have successfully incorporated the range of experience that is being pursued across the student body?
What are the pre-requisites for success or the fulfilment of expectations and how are those metrics impacting on the student condition or their approach to independent learning?
Are art schools and courses managing the degree show differently at graduate and postgraduate levels?
Are there alternatives that are being trialled and are they affecting reforms or shifts in the delivery and design of teaching and learning?
Are we preserving a form of exposition that is constraining learning outcomes?
Is there a fear of teaching and learning resources being eroded as a consequence of changes in our behaviour as educators?
Do we sufficiently trust our managers and decision makers in the context of change and shifting requirements or reference points?
How does the art school or art course represent its regional geography and how is the exposition of final year work influenced by the local socio-economic landscape?
The ’Degree Show’ is often used as a tool of assessment and sometimes heralded as the event that students spend three years working towards. It is a historical expectation of a Fine Art education and also one that tends to receive endorsement by the institution. It can be a celebration of work. It might be framed by competition or specific expectations of being ‘noticed’ or achieving sales but can it match those expectations?
A degree show framing of art work may still seek to replicate the white cube though it is more likely to be constrained by the limitations of space and facilities. The very concept of a show or exhibition may not suit all contemporary expanded art practices, where a proportion of students operate in a post-studio context in which interdisciplinary working and collaborative practice are strongly encouraged. Is it appropriate to question the relevance of a degree show in an age where more and more students are moving into post-graduation worlds of working: with context and site, alongside social communities, in response to public realms, through media and on-line environments, or in assistive roles or as facilitators in applied fields.
Do we need Degree Shows? How representative are they of our context for teaching and developing arts practices for contemporary society?Have they become institutionalised or instrumentalised for what they might offer our institutions in terms of public engagement? Are there alternatives? Has the degree show become outdated/outmoded? Is the ownership still really with the student body and to what degree are exhibitions curated, censored and utilised as marketing material for an increasingly commodified higher education system?

Contributions are invited on themes including but not limited to:
Alternative models of exposition and public engagement
Student choice, voice and perspective
Sustainability and Resourcing
Space makers: The impact of an era of new buildings in UK higher education
Relationship of the Degree Show to Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Varying notions of display and dissemination
Curating and interpretation
The role of the University/Art School Gallery
Beyond the institution
The role of the degree show in supporting graduate outcomes.

Often, students tell me how much they dread their degree shows; it's not a celebration, but a competition. They've been equipped with a complex set of anxieties but no basic coping strategies, like inviting other people to come or contribute. The function of the degree show is not questioned, they just accept the stupid formats, like VIP breakfasts – why don't you just make tea and toast for everybody?” 2008-2009, BA Fine Art/Contextual Studies, Dartington College of Arts, Devon;
2009-2010, MA Fine Art, Camberwell College of Arts (UAL). rosalieschweiker.info

I remember my undergrad degree show feeling like it should stand for everything that I wanted to be as an artist, and for all of the years I had been studying. But in hindsight, it was the very beginning, a sort of testing ground
Holly Hendry 2013 graduate

Your degree show – whether at BA (degree) or MA (postgraduate) level – is a valuable opportunity to showcase your work to a wide range of people working in the art world. Curators, writers, other artists, gallery directors and many others visit degree shows as part of their research into artists they might want to work with in the future. It’s important that your show looks its best at all times, and that you are available and contactable in the months following your show.
Artquest Website 2018
A crucial early showcase is the art school degree show, which, following the influential example set by Goldsmiths’ Visual Arts Department in the late 1980s, has now become increasingly professional in presentation. The degree show also provides a valuable opportunity for a wider public to have access to challenging contemporary art in its earliest incarnation.
Louisa Buck (2004) Market Matters

Itinerary

9.00am
Conference starts. Coffee and registration

9.30am
AGM

10.00am-10.10
Introduction Dr Lisa Stansbie, Dean of the School of Art, Architecture & Design and co-chair of NAFAE.
10.10-11am
Keynote Paul Winstanley will be talking about his Riding House publication Art School.

Filled with photographs of unpopulated studios, Paul Winstanley’s exploration of British art schools highlights their importance at a time when the art school system’s existence is more fraught than ever. In his latest series, Paul Winstanley documents undergraduate studio spaces from over 50 art colleges across the United Kingdom. These rough and ready, nearly neutral spaces are photographed as found: empty between school years. Collectively, the works highlight the abstraction of the interior with their temporary white walls, paint stains, neutral floors and open spaces. Photographed in this manner, their sterile nature is juxtaposed by their intended purpose of fostering intense creativity for a future generation of artists.

11.00 - 12.00
Three speakers 15 min each presentation +5 min Q&A each, Chaired by Justin Burns, Head of Art

11-11.20
Gina Wall, Deputy Head, School of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art

Showing Off
This paper will present three short case studies of divergent practice across the School of Fine Art which will demonstrate the distinct ways in which our nuanced approach to degree show aligns with the core aims of our respective programmes and the ethos of the School of Fine Art. The paper will also reflect upon the relationship between the degree show and learning, teaching and assessment to explore the different ways in which programmes remain consistent with their diverse aims, while ensuring that the degree show format retains its currency.

11.20-11.40
Martin Newth, Programme Director, Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art

Event-based Curriculum.
The term event-based curriculum is coined to describe a learning experience which, rather than following an individual, assessment-driven approach, emphasizes external-facing, collaborative events in which students participate. The new BA curriculum at Chelsea, which instead of focusing on the narrative of assessment, seeks to place the emphasis of a series of events in which the students engage, each of which has a currency within (professional) art practice.

11.40-12
Thomas Rodgers

The History of Leeds School of Art

12.00 - 1.30pm
Lunch Reception Area and exhibition on The History of Leeds Art School by Thomas Rodgers (and time to walk to Leeds City Art Gallery for the afternoon papers in the Henry Moore lecture Theatre at Leeds Art Gallery)

Afternoon Location: The Henry Moore Lecture Theatre, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, LS1 3AA

1.30pm - 2.30pm
Three speakers 15 min each presentation +5 min Q&A each, Chaired by Dr Kiff Bamford

1.30-1.50pm
Andy Broadey, University of Central Lancashire

Democratising the University Gallery Space. Under the curatorial direction of a group of democratically elected steering group of students, the gallery was transformed into a radical space of live art production and display. this occupation-as-exhibition functioned as a space of collective pedagogy, co-labour and ‘dissensus’ (Rancière 2009); a ‘war machine’ (Deleuze and Guattari 1980; Deleuze and Parnet 1977) which smoothes the ‘striated space’ of the neoliberal university and de-territorialises the current individualistic focus within arts education.

1.50pm-2.10pm
Richard Hudson-Miles, Kingston University

Reading the Art School: Politics and Ideological Struggle in Degree Show Publicity
By revealing this ‘answer without a question’ which the neoliberal art school reproduces constantly but cannot admit this paper suggests that we can begin to ‘find the question itself elsewhere’. Therefore, it concludes by demonstrating how this question is explicitly posed in the publicity for the degree shows of the various autonomous art schools formed as free alternatives to the neoliberal UK art school following its ‘economisation’. Drawing upon the thought of Jacques Rancière these publicity images will be read as the dissensual counter-politics of ‘the part which has no part’ declarative images of ideological struggle subsequently personified in the act of artistic and pedagogical subjectification.

2.10pm-2.30pm
Dr Katrine Hjelde, Senior Lecturer, Chelsea College of Arts

‘Make public?’
The student exhibition is a format and a genre which is under theorised and underhistoricised. It is not properly contextualized or explored within the field(s) of contemporary art or fine art pedagogy. Rike Frank and Tirdad Zolghadr have stated in relation to the Degree show that ‘the particularities of the format, its potentials, dialectics, and attendant Institutional power relations are not productively discussed’ (2016). This presentation maps and explores these ‘blanks’ where the student exhibition – in particular the Degreeshow, does not emerge critically, or indeed at all, in pedagogic literature, in Fine Art Course Documents, in curatorial theory, in art discourse or in terms of the position of the Art School in society.

2.30 – 2.45
short 15 minute comfort break

2.45.00pm – 3.45
Three speakers 15 min each presentation +5 min Q&A each, chaired by Dr Jill Gibbon

2.45pm-3.05pm
Wayne Lloyd, Programme Leader, Fine Art UWE, Bristol

My case study discussion will focus on two ambitious, public facing exhibitions staged by Fine Art students during their final month of learning at UWE, Bristol: a student led exhibition for Spike Island’s open studios, and their degree show. By comparing these two fundamentally different events I will examine significant differences in relation to art, professional practice and audience reception that suggest that a conventional Degree Show may hold less possibility than alternative, student led events.

3.05pm-3.25pm
Steve Bulcock, Head of Undergraduate Studies and Rebecca Court, Head of Postgraduate Taught Programmes, Birmingham School of Art

Perpendicular Pedagogy, Parallel Presentation
For the art institution as a space that has encouraged, prompted and facilitated experimentation, provocation and ideas of working beyond the gallery context it is somewhat surprising that 45 years from its conception, we still refer back to this inherited model of the degree show. In recognising that the adopted practices of the degree show may not best fit the needs of today’s students this paper aims to question the site, role and purpose of the degree show in relationship to learning, teaching and assessment. Fundamentally if art school is about teaching people to be creatives, surely, we have to shift the pre-requisite of the degree show to be an event of creative learning and proposition that is owned, re-invented, made purposeful and realised by the hands of empowered students?

3.25pm-3.45pm
Daniel Goodman, Artistic Director at System Gallery, Newcastle

Artist-run Initiatives: The Fine Art Degree Show and Beyond
The positive economic impact of creative industries is widely acknowledged but severely mismatched by the poor career prospects of creative graduates. For most UK graduates, artist-run initiatives are the first step into the wider art world, often through informal unpaid work which is seen as career enhancing. They are vital in the development of emerging art practices and countering the alienation felt at this vulnerable career stage through offering participation in collective action and networks. This provocation is an attempt to explore the possibilities of collaboration between universities and artist-run initiatives to combat alienation felt among recent graduates through using the Fine Art Degree Show as means to introduce them to these alternate support-structures.

3.45pm-4pm
Short 15 minute comfort break

4.00pm – 4.50pm
Keynote Kirsty Ogg, talking about the history of the New Contemporaries.

New Contemporaries is the leading organisation supporting emergent art practice from UK art schools. Since 1949 New Contemporaries have consistently supported contemporary visual artists to successfully transition from education into professional practice, primarily by means of an annual, nationally touring exhibition. New Contemporaries remain responsive to change in the art world and the needs of emerging practitioners. Participants for the annual touring exhibition are selected by a panel comprising influential art world figures including curators, writers, and artists. Often, the selectors have been a part of previous New Contemporaries exhibitions giving them a unique insight on the experience.

4.50pm-5pm
Closing remarks: Dr Lisa Stansbie

5pm
Conference closes & drinks in Foley’s public house, opposite Leeds Art Galley for those who wish.

Getting There

Remarks

Gallery
12/04/2019 (All day)

Institutional Members 2017

Richard Waring

Simon Granell

Dan Allen

Barbara Marcel

Jamie Holman

Jill Good

Martin Newth

Jane Ball

Steven Scott

Benedict Carpenter

Alan Holligan

Alistair Payne

Susan Liggett

Dr Daniel Pryde-Jarman

Mandy Ure

Lauren Winsor

Lisa Stansbie

Professor Sheila Gaffney

Gian Carlo Rossi

Sophie Benson

Richard Talbot

Sue Spark

Craig Barber

Craig Fisher

Steven Paige

Steven Paige

Sarah Rowles

Dr Nicholas Lambert

Professor Juan Cruz

Jessica Longmore

Dr Michael Lent

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Allan Buckingham

Alan Boldon

David Alker

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Steve McDade

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Rodger Brown

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Bob Davison

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Dr Dale Holmes

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Dr Susan Barnet

Joe Woodhouse

Mike Collier

Paul Haywood

Daniela Amolini

Wayne Lloyd

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Maggie Ayliffe

Alison Baxter

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