International Centre for Fine Art Research

What does it mean to an artists to undertake and complete a PhD? What can PhD students who are themselves practicing artists learn from artists who have undergone the doctoral process?

This academic year ICFAR and RNUAL will be running four workshops that address questions of practice within the context of doctoral work. Each workshop will be led by an artist who has undertaken a PhD project. Artists will introduce their own work, and talk about the ways in which they approached their own PhD, reflecting on how the doctoral work has informed their current intellectual and creative practice. The workshop will take place from 2-5pm including a few short one to one tutorials with the artist for students who wish to talk about specific issues at the end of each session.

The first two workshops will be taken by Dr. Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Dr. Anita Ponton. Each of them undertook a practice based PhD in lens based and media related practices that include performance. They will each talk about current research, both academic and public, and about how they now see the PhD in relation to their working approach, their current interests and their careers.

For further information and to book to attend either - or both - of these first two sessions please contact the ICFAR administrator, Chris Ralls, at c.ralls@csm.arts.ac.uk or by phone on 020 7514 8546

For information on past master classes and workshops please follow this link.