Staff

Support and guidance for the masters courses is provided by leading practitioners and researchers working in the the school of Art and Design However whilst there is a rich pool of dedicated staff students can avail of tutorial support from staff throughout the University.

Debbie Fraser - PADB Coordinator

Over seeing the management and day to day running of :

MA Art in Public

Susanne Bosch, Course Director

Berlin artist Susanne Bosch works as a lecturer in Fine Art Research and researcher at Interface, University of Ulster since 2006. Her international work concentrates on art in public, installation and site-specific pieces in exhibition spaces. She also organizes discussion panels, workshops and seminars. She tends to work on long-term projects with specific themes (e.g.1998-2002 www.restpfennig.com). Since a residency in Istanbul in 2003 she focuses on a contested public. Migration and Otherness are one central interest within a contested public.

[s.bosch@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7321

Dan Shipsides

Dan Shipsides, Lecturer in Art and Design, is joining the MA Art in Public to co-lead this pathway. He has received several art and research awards including; AHRC Landscape and Environment Award (2006), ACNI Major Artist Award (2004), AHRC Fellowship Award (2001) and the Nissan Art Award (2000).

He has a wide ranging multidisciplinary art practice dealing with experiential and participatory narratives of place. He exhibits at a national and international level.

[dj.shipsides@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7378

Associated Staff

MA Fine Art

David Campbell

David Campbell is Reader in Fine Art and Course Director for the MFA. He has had numerous one person and museum exhibitions under his own name and as Common Culture, a collaborative artist's group he co-founded in 1996.

Recent photographic, video and performance work has focussed upon an exploration of alienation and commodity production in British popular culture, included Variable Capital, the Bluecoat, Liverpool, 2008, WALK ON - A Liverpool exhibition for the 6th Shanghai Biennale, 2006, From Text to Hypertext - medi@terra 6th international art and technology festival, Byzantine and Christian Museum Vas. Athens 2004, Shopping – A Century of Art and Consumer Culture - The Tate Gallery Liverpool, 2003.

Recent publications (with Mark Durden) include Variable Capital, Liverpool University Press, ISBN: h/b 9781846311260, Art and Consumer Culture, EXTRA. Antwerp FotoMuseum, Summer 2008, Armchair Romanticism, David Campbell and Mark Durden consider the ongoing legacy of the work of Richard Prince. Photoworks, Spring/Summer May.

[d.campbell@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 90267289

Professor Willie Doherty- Professor of Video Art

Willie Doherty has had numerous one person and museum exhibitions, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris and Tate Liverpool. He has particiated in The Sao Paulo Bienal, The Istanbul Biennal and the Venice Biennale. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1994 and 2003.

His recent research outputs have explored the possibilities of using video and photographic installation to address the representation of contested spaces and the unknowable subject by subverting conventions of mainstream drama and documentary film.

[w.doherty@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 90267255

Mary McIntyre

Mary McIntyre is a Reader in Fine Art whose main research area is Fine Art, specialising in photography, lens- based and time-based practice. Mary has exhibited her work extensively both nationally and internationally, including; Dogs Have no Religion, group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Prague (2006). Space of Doubt, solo exhibition, Goethe Institut Dublin (2006). The Nature of Things: Artists from N. Ireland, group exhibition, Institute Santa Maria della Pieta, 51st Venice Biennale (2005). Esterno Notte, solo exhibition, Arte Ricambi Gallery, Verona (2005).

[m.mcintyre2@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 90267352

Alison Rowley

Dr Alison Rowley is Senior Lecturer in Critical, Historical and Theoretical Studies in Visual Art and her research interests include Feminist history, theory and practice in the visual arts, psychoanalysis and aesthetics, the work of Helen Frankenthaler, women and painting, configurations of social class in 'Young British Art', critical relations between art and history in exhibition practices since the 1960s.

Alison has recently published, Helen Frankenthaler: Painting, History, Memory, London/New York: I.B.Tauris.2007 and 'A Painter's Hesse', in Encountering Eva Hesse, ed. by Griselda Pollock and Vanessa Corby, Munich/Berlin/London/New York: Prestel, 2006, ISBN: 3791333097, pp. 137-152 [aj.rowley@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7259

Alistair Wilson

Alistair Wilson is Reader in Fine art, specializing in sculpture and installation practices. He has had numerous one person and museum exhibitions, including 2007 Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburg, Pensylvania, USA. 2006 Giverny Installation Museum of Fine Art, Prague. ( As part of the Exhibition Dogs Have no Religion, Artists from Northern Ireland The Nature of Things: Artists from N. Ireland, group exhibition, Institute Santa Maria della Pieta, 51st Venice Biennale (2005).

[a.wilson1@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7414

Associated Staff

MA Multidisciplinary Design

Christopher Murphy, Course Director

Internationally respected digital artist Christopher Murphy has been described as "a William Morris for the digital age" (Creative Review). In addition to his role as a lecturer at the University of Ulster at Belfast, Murphy is a practicing designer whose work has featured in numerous magazines and books including Eye Magazine, widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading design journals. A co-founder of web-based arts publishing organisation Fällt Publishing, he has worked within the field of audio-related design for the last decade.

[chris.murphy@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7224

Debbie Fraser, PADB Coordinator

Debbie Fraser heads up postgraduate provision in the School of Art and Design and is a Distinguished Teaching Fellow of the University of Ulster. As a senior lecturer she has been a course director for postgraduate programmes for the last six years and continues to be a practitioner within the jewellery field. Exhibiting both nationally and internationally she embeds her research interest into the teaching environment and uses her wide range of professional contacts to enrich student learning.

[dea.fraser@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7283

Nicklas Persson

Nicklas Persson graduated from the University of Ulster in 2000. Since then has worked as a Designer and Developer in the BBC and Radar. He now combines work as a lecturer and a freelance developer and designer specialising in user interface design and the development of well-crafted web applications.

[n.persson@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7331

Associated Staff

MDes Textile Material Product

Karen Fleming, Course Director

Karen Fleming leads textile research in Interface, University of Ulster having lectured since 1989. Fleming exhibits internationally, presents at conferences, and curates exhibitions. Her international awards include Europeische Quilt-Triennale, The Art of The Stitch and Threadworks, New Zealand. The Wellcome Trust are funding her collaboration with Durham University to develop textile anatomy.

[k.fleming@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7267

Alan Beattie

Alan's specialisms lie in the field of Fashion and Textile design. With his experience of digital and hand methods of textile decoration, he creates a slick, modern vision of wearable expression. With an avant garde and conceptual underpinning, he investigates the relationships between the printed image, decoration and the fashion form.

[a.beattie@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7334

Kate Wells

Dr Kate Wells is an international selling author, designer and artist within the field of textiles. Having over twenty five years teaching experience at some of the most prestigious Design Universities in the UK she is considered an expert in field of Printed Textile Design with extensive knowledge of textile design, coloration and technology.

[k.wells@ulster.ac.uk] | +44 (0)28 9026 7234

Associated Staff