Visual Arts
Cluster lead: Professor Brandon Taylor
Visual Arts research supports research at all levels in the fine arts including new media and film. Its members include painters, sculptors, photographers, theorists, critics and historians of art. The cluster’s group activities include visiting speakers, support for research degrees, mentoring of early-career researchers, and advice on research funding, exhibitions and publishing.
The Visual Arts research cluster was created in 2009 to support and coordinate research at all levels in the visual
Staff involved:
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Professor Brandon Taylor
Jennifer Anyan
Jon Buck
Stephen Brigdale
Edward Chaney
Nicola Chamberlain
Andrew Cross
Jonny Hannah
Maurice Owen
Peter Lloyd
Guy Moreton
Greg Palmer
Andrew Mansfield
Lee Mackinnon
Olga Rodriquez
Alan Schechner
Alia Syed
Emma Tod
Nina Sverdvik
Peter Jones
Les Buckingham
Bridget Cusak
Carolyn Mair
Lynn Lu
Contact us:
Email: brandon.taylor@solent.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)23 8031 9409
Telephone home office: +44 (0)19 6285 4244
arts at Southampton Solent University. The group has some 25 subscribing members who practise in painting, sculpture, installation, photography, illustration, new media and film, art criticism and theory, exhibition curating and the history of art.
Most activities are concentrated in the contemporary and modern fields. Members have individual careers in the fine arts that can be directly accessed from the information given below. Activities of the visual arts research cluster include support for early-career researchers, advice on exhibiting, funding and publishing, and the coordination of work in the fine arts across the University. In addition, the cluster organises talks and presentations from external speakers, and encourages liaisons between the fine arts and other research disciplines, including cultural memory, film studies and theatre. The fine arts by their very nature depend upon individual creative work, most often taking place at the experimental or ‘blue skies’ end of the spectrum of thought and practice.
At Southampton Solent University we believe that individual creative activity stands at the centre of research into communication, spatiality and aesthetic awareness; achieves significant public impact in galleries, museums and publication, both locally, nationally and internationally; and makes significant contributions to the national and global economy.