Postgraduate Researchers

PhD Research Student - School of Art and Design

Project title: Sites of Learning. Examining the educational relationship between artists, galleries and the public through practice-based research. 

Project abstract: 

Art Galleries and Museums are sites of public pedagogy. As a public institution, the gallery maintains the role of expert, favouring educational and curatorial practice based on knowledge transmission. A concern within gallery education is such means of display principals, and knowledge acquisition, which remain inaccessible to those not equipped with the desired cultural capital. While the Educational Turn addressed artistic and curatorial practices that promote collaboration and co-creation, through socially engaged and process-based art, it presented a curatorialisation of education and artistic aesthetisation. The critical potential of gallery-based learning remains under-theorised within a spatial framework. This research will explore how gallery-based educational programmes, informed by critical-spatial practices, can support more embodied and emancipatory aims, in support of intersectionality.  

Supervisors: Dr Glenn Loughran, Dr Conor McGarrigle 

Funder: TU Dublin ARISE Scholarship 

ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9072-8617