Staff

Professor Anthony Downey

Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

Dr Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (Birmingham City University), with a specific research focus on practice-based research, digital methodologies and knowledge production in visual cultures. In his capacity as Cultural and Commissioning Lead, he is a Co-investigator in a four...

Professor Jonathan Harris

Birmingham School of Art

I have been working on a trilogy of books on the theme of globalization and contemporary art since 2009, published by Wiley-Blackwell USA. The first, a major sole-edited anthology, Globalization and Contemporary Art , was published in May 2011 (UK). The second, m y sole-authored book, The Utopian Globalists: Artists of...

Demitrios Kargotis

Course Leader: MA Art and Design Interdisciplinary Practices

Demitrios Kargotis works as part of the design action group Dash n’ Dem. Since 2010, their wide-ranging participatory projects centre on popular education and critical and creative citizenship participation. The open-ended, collaborative structure of their practice explores how co-creation can act as a form of activism that...

Dr Susan May

Senior Lecturer, History of Art and Design

Based at Birmingham School of Art, Sue currently teaches on BA (Hons) Fine Art, MA Fine Art, MA Art and Design: Interdisciplinary Practices, MA Arts and Education Practices, MA Arts and Project Management, MA Contemporary Arts China, and supervises doctoral research. Sue’s early career as a linguistic secretary and PA...

Dr. Lisa Metherell

Lecturer in Art and Design

Lisa holds a B.Soc.Sci. in Media, Culture and Society, an M.A. in Fine Art and a Ph.D. in Art and Design. Lisa is an artist and lecturer specialising in the relationship between practice and theory within Art and Design. Her funded research through art practice PhD: ‘Glittering Orientations: Towards a non-figurative queer art...

Nuria Querol

Senior Lecturer in Art Theory, Course Director MA Contemporary Arts China

Dr Nuria Querol is Senior Lecturer in Art Theory and Course Director for the MA Contemporary Arts China. Before joining Birmingham City University, they lectured at various universities including the Slade School of Fine Art, Central Saint Martins and King’s College London. Nuria is an art historian and curator whose...

Theo Reeves-Evison

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Theo Reeves-Evison is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birmingham School of Art, where he is working on a funded research project entitled ‘Speculative Natures: Contemporary Art and Interventionist Ecology’. The project investigates how processes of speculation and storytelling have the capacity to organise environmental...

Dr Linda Stupart

Lecturer in Fine Art

Linda Stupart is an artist, writer, and educator from Cape Town, South Africa. They completed their PhD at Goldsmiths in 2016, with a project engaged in new considerations of objectification and abjection. They are interested in the possibilities for writing and making discrete grounded encounters with different kinds of...

Dr Sian Vaughan

Reader in Research Practice

Dr Sian Vaughan is Reader in Research Practice with expertise in doctoral education and creative research methods. She has previously worked in museums, galleries and archives as well as teaching in further and higher education. Broadly her research interests concern the pedagogies that underpin research in art and design,...

Stuart Whipps

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Art and Design

I am interested in a broad definition and application of photography and the dialogue between the photographic image and object.