Newcastle University

Bobby Baker

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:00:00 BST

Bobby Baker is a woman, and an artist. She lives in London, England. In her career of 35 odd years she has, amongst other things, danced with meringue ladies.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:23:32 BST

William Horner

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:00:00 BST

In his talk, Profanation and the Unmonumental, William Horner will introduce and discuss the ideas of profanation and the unmonumental as aesthetic tendencies within contemporary art practice.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:26:29 BST

David Sherry

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:00:00 BST

“I make drawings, videos and performances. Each of these disciplines react off each other. The drawings can be ideas for videos or performances.."

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:31:18 BST

Doug Fishbone

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Doug Fishbone is an American artist living and working in London. He earned an MA in Fine Art degree at Goldsmiths College in 2003 and was awarded the Beck’s Futures Prize for Student Film and Video in 2004.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:36:10 BST

Nicky Bird

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Nicky Bird investigates the contemporary relevance of found photographs, and hidden histories of specific sites, investigating how they remain resonant.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:38:59 BST

Phyllida Barlow

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:41:50 BST

Elaine Wilson

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Elaine Wilson’s work explores received ideas about women and femininity and the perpetuation of romantic and stereotypical ideals most recently through the language and tradition of ornamental sculpture and figurines.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:44:28 BST

Neil Mulholland

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Neil Mulholland is currently Director of the Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies at Edinburgh College of Art. His work focuses on grass-roots parochialism, narratology, magical realism and metafiction in recent art and criticism.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:46:44 BST

Barry Schwabsky

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:00:00 GMT

Barry Schwabsky is an American art critic and poet living in London. He writes regularly for The Nation and for Artforum, where he is also co-editor of international reviews.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:49:38 BST

Andrew Patrizio

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Prof. Andrew Patrizio is a curator and art historian based at Edinburgh College of Art since 1997.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:52:29 BST

Alexis Harding

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Harding has described his work as being made “within a set of limits that I can only discover by squeezing and pushing these limits to extremes..."

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:55:19 BST

Jefford Horrigan

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT

… he caresses the table for a moment - sniffs first the middle fingers of his right hand and then the upturned palm of his left.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:44:07 BST

Ruth Ewan

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Working collaboratively with groups or individuals, Ewan is interested in the ways in which radical ideas are transferred, absorbed or lost within popular culture.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:46:34 BST

Richard Forster

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Richard Forster is a contemporary artist whose key concerns are involved with the haptic and social interpretation of place. Currently these investigations are prompted through drawing and sculpture.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:48:27 BST

Alan Currall

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Alan Currall teaches, part time, at Glasgow School of Art’s Sculpture and Environmental Art and MFA courses. He is also an academic researcher at the School, where he co-edits the online journal, www.artandresearch.org.uk.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:51:29 BST

Rob Tufnell

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Rob Tufnell opened a commercial gallery in central London at the end of last year. He also works as a freelance curator and writer.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:53:37 BST

Amanda Beech

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:00:00 BST

Amanda Beech makes artworks, writes and collaborates on curatorial projects. Her research looks to the possibilities of non-foundationalist, new realist critique as proposed by art in the context of a politics of contingency.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:56:43 BST

Alexandre Da Cunha

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:00:00 BST

Alexandre Da Cunha’s work plays with everyday utilitarian objects using and re-using objects and stripping them of their original use value and combining them to create new structures.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:59:54 BST

Nick Fox

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:00:00 BST

Central to Nick Fox’s painting practice is his fascination with social codes, and subversive narratives of romantic idealization, often in the context of made objects, drawing and installation.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 23:02:38 BST

Maria Chevska

• Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
• Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:00:00 BST

Maria Chevska lives and works in London. She is a Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.

Last modified: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 23:04:28 BST