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Contemporary Fine Art & Critical Theory Research Centre Staff

 

Research Centre Head

Jill Randall - Sculpture and installations

 

Full Members:

Helmut Lemke - Sonic arts and installations
Brendan Fletcher - Contemporary abstract painting
Paul Haywood – Intervention, installation and Performance
Dr Jacques Rangasamy - Indigenous European, Asian and African cultures
Colin Lloyd - Multiples, Bookworks and Printmaking
Pam Panas - Theoretical Studies
Jonathon Carson - Design Histories and Practice
Theresa Wilkie - Heritage as a catalyst for urban regeneration
Karen Heald - Video, performance and installation
Sam Ingleson - External Projects Co-ordinator

Associate Members:

Jo Clements - External Project Co-ordinator

Brian Percival - Arts Outreach Coordinator
Louise Brookes - Tutor: Visual Arts
Dr Phil Brown - Salford Housing and Urban Sustainability Unit
Dr Philip James - Environment and Life Sciences
Prof. Gareth Palmer - Music, Media and Performance

 

Member Profiles:


Jill Randall makes sculpture and installations investigating the stories and histories behind objects. Much of the work is site-specific, and has included large-scale public art projects involving collaborations with architects, landscape architects and engineers. The work investigates the nature of time through the dual preoccupations of archaeology and alchemy, and recent projects have involved collaborations with scientists and industrial processes. For example the Irwell Sculpture Trail Residency at the Magnesium Electron factory and a residency at Woolaton Hall, Natural History Museum in 2005. The practice addresses the 'charged' object, and the continued relevance and significance of objects in the 21st Century. Personal research investigates the notion of the sublime in contemporary sculpture, and artists as alchemists. The work is conceptually driven, but exploits specific qualities and associations of materials, currently metals and found objects, and often involves the recycling of materials invested with history through their past use. Read Jill's SEEK Profile


Helmut Lemke - Sound, the audible, the inaudible and the imaginable, is the basis of Helmut Lemkes' research and work. Since 30 years he presents process based results of his investigations into site specific sound. Lemke has performed Concerts and Live Art Performances and exhibited Sound Installations all over Europe and Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore. His activities include organisation and management of festivals, projects and symposiums. Since 1989 he runs the label "edition el C." for the purpose to document contemporary sound art practice. Lemke has collaborated internationally with musicians, visual artists, dancers, poets, scientists, sound artists, performers and filmmakers. Lemkes' most recent research interest is described in this excerpt from his AHRC fellowship outline: The Sound the site requires This project examines the proposition that sound is a valuable medium for recording and interpreting physical and social landscapes and will be a project to use sound as a sculptural medium for the interpretation of locations. Read Helmut's SEEK Profile


Brendan Fletcher works as an artist ad writer. Fletcher creates vacuum formed plastic wall reliefs - for gallery and site-specific projects - that draw upon the history and visual language of abstract painting. The work conflates an abstract icon and a commercial logo to explore ideas surrounding contemporary devotion. Recent exhibitions include, Nice to Meet You, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California, (November 2005), Terrain: Contemporary British Abstraction, Museum of Non Conformist Art, St Petersburg, 9 September 2004), and Chorus a site specific installation/soundscape for Gorton Monastery, Manchester in collaboration with American composer Kevin Malone, (May 2004). His work derives from an abstract painting practice and his principal interests lies, in the 'expanded field' of contemporary abstract painting. Read Brendan's SEEK Profile


Paul Haywood - As a practitioner Paul Haywood has diverse interests. He mostly collaborates with other artists, designers, educators and community governance professionals and volunteers. He has a continuing interest in 'live' performance and installation through a more regular engagement with social intervention, regeneration and public art projects. In recent years he has developed a range of approaches to the use of art processes to encourage pedagogic engagement. Over the past five years he has maintained a steady involvement in projects that employ creative research in public planning and development of the built environment. Since 2000 Paul Haywood has been working with various partners and individuals to extend their role as social facilitators and activists. One of his core interests is to question the logic and rationale of urban redevelopment. He shares an interest in hidden histories, social memories and 'derelict' landscapes that have resulted in a range of entirely 'process' led investigations of site or place. Read Paul's SEEK Profile

Jacques Rangasamy - The following inform my research interests: (a) the political and cultural impacts of foreign influences on indigenous European, Asian and African cultures (b) the ensuing influence-processing and adjustment in human, cultural and aesthetic terms, (c) the ways the same influence-processing and adjustment manifest in contemporary art-making. Broad Research outcome: (a) an informed understanding of the varieties of sensibilities, perspectives and cultural beings and cultural activities that thrive and struggle under the umbrella of globalisation, and that inform and make diasporic existence possible/tolerable. (b) the evolving of pedagogical materials and teaching strategies that enable students to see the world in their cultural beings and find their places in the world (c) develop the cultural and spiritual competencies for living with diversity meaningfully. Read Jacque's SEEK Profile

Colin Lloyds current research and practice centres around Multiples, Bookworks, Printmaking and the integration of new and traditional technolgies within the context of Fine Art. This includes curating, exhibiting, publishing and distribution regionally, nationally and internationally. Colin is the director of a collaborative project called MULTI. The members of the group are practising artists and academics from the UK and dependent upon the particualr project, Europe and North America. In January 2010 Colin Lloyd and Simon Ford will be presenting a new body work under the heading of 'SCALE'. The work is being developed with the University of Salford, the University of Bradford and Bradford School of Arts & Media. Whilst still within the context of multiples, the exhibition will push at the bounderies of what a multiple might be by exploring site specific large scale works, alongside their original sight size sources. The most recent MULTI project is 'MULTI BOX', an exhibition and publication, involving sixteen artists, each producing an edition of 25 prints to a specific size, utilising any print media. Read Colin's SEEK Profile

Pam Panas
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Jonathan Carson - My creative practice explores the 'stuff' that surrounds us. I'm interested in the everyday things that form an increasingly complex part of our lives, objects that are as much an expression of taste and choice as they are a backdrop to our existence. Harvested from the glut of popular culture, I'm interested in narrating an alternative life for the, often decorative, ephemera I find. For me, the language of decorative styles is inherently married to the complex psychology of our relationships - a chandelier becomes a vehicle for its owners dissatisfaction with life, a curtain serves as a thin veil over the darkness of a relationship gone bad. In changing an existing article or creating something new, I undertake a re-examination of things we feel we know, courting my audience's engagement with the familiar, but sometimes sinister, sometimes absurd, etiquette that structures our lives. Read Jonathon's SEEK Profile

Theresa Wilkie
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Karen Heald is part of a research team at the University of Salford, focused on narrative and sensory intelligences. Working with Professor Paul Haywood, the Principal Investigator, delivering a three-year AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship programme on kinaesthetic learning through creative frameworks. Karen’s current research explores “In-between-ness: Contemporary Art Practice in the Chora within Descriptions of Time and Sleep” and is created through video, performance and installation. Painting, as a source of language, is extremely influential in her films. Evolving her own poetic visual language she engages with the differences and similarities between painting and film, creating a language of “painterly video” that communicates difficult and personal issues with subtle, oblique visual stanzas. These issues along with her background in time based media and site-specificy often means that her videos and photography are presented on or through objects, offering sculptural qualities to the artworks. In addition to her own practice she has been working collaboratively and negotiating dialogues with a variety of professionals. This has formed part of her interdisciplinary practice. Current R&D (2010-2013) is a collaborative Art & Science Research Residency. Karen is also an Associate Member: Communication, Cultural & Media Studies. Read Karen's SEEK Profile


Sam Ingleson has worked in the School of Art and Design since 2000 and is part of the Community Engagement team within the School. Her currently role is as KTF Project Manager, responsible for management and co- delivery with Paul Haywood of an AHRC funded Knowledge Transfer Fellowship ‘Supporting Arts and Enterprise Skills in Communities through Creative Engagement with the Local Area’. Guns to Goods is one of the projects she is currently working on; The Guns to Goods project brings together multiple agencies whose shared aim is to support young people in leading campaign initiatives that will improve their life experiences and opportunities. Guns to Goods makes use of Art, Fashion, Design for Manufacture and Enterprise skills, transferred from the University of Salford and its students, to address and counter issues of gun ownership and gun related crime affecting communities in the Inner South Manchester Area.

Sam has worked as an artist delivering workshops in schools and community settings since 1998, leading to working primarily as a project manager, trainer and consultant and also been an Artsmark Validator for Arts Council, North West for the last 3 years and an Arts Award Advisor. In response to working in Arts Education with Schools the Community Engagement Team have developed a new Work Based Learning Postgraduate Course for teachers, MA Creative Education on which Sam is the Programme Leader. Read Sam's SEEK profile