Art, Culture & Society

Explores the role of arts practice through creative experimentation, working across boundaries of disciplines as well as traditions, exploring different modes of perception.

Staff

  • Anne Douglas

    Anne Douglas

    Interested in developing critical approaches to art that draw a creative relationship between the artist, specific place and culture, where that culture is experiencing radical social and economic change.  

  • Charles Hackett

    Charlie Hackett

    Charlie Hackett works in perceived marginal spaces with constituent groups - immigrants, refugees, and urban youth - to define new forms of public engagement through art.  

  • Alexandra Kokoli

    Alexandra Kokoli

    Interdisciplinary reseearch focusing on various interfacings between word and image, including the visual aspects of writing; writings by artists; the classification of artists and art practices according to pre-existing signifying systems.  

    • Research Students

  • Chu Chu-Yuan

    Chu Yuan-Chu

    My research aims to articulate a methodology of art practice based on an understanding of art as a form of relational knowledge, embracing recent shifts in understandings of art in collaborative processes.  

  • Helen Smith

    Helen Smith

    AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award with Woodend Barn, Banchory, Aberdeenshire. Understanding Change: Connecting Communities through the Arts.