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 July ICFAR is pleased to be able to host distinguished Australian artist Jude Walton as the Centre's Summer Fellow. Among other things, Jude will be participating in the From Scratch event at The Drawing Room.

ICFAR is currently co-hosting Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Bonnie Marranca with Queen Mary University of London Bonnie Marranca’s writing and publishing includes several books and essays on the American avant garde and to mark the close of her residency in London she has invited two distinguished multi disciplinary artists performers to present their work.  In early April the New York based Fluxus artist, poet and performer Alison Knowles, gave a two-day workshop for artists and PhD students from UAL, Roehampton, Birkbeck and co-Leverhulme hosts Queen Mary University of London.

On the 5th February ICFAR hosted a one-day research symposium with screenings, curated by Research Fellow Steven Ball of the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection. The event examined Australian artists’ moving image practice in relation to history and the archive and was connected both to BAFVSC's ongoing research into archive and the moving image, and to the curatoral project Figuring Landscapes, which includes work by the visiting presenters.