_______________________

For further information
please contact :

Pat Farquharson, School Secretary
email: p.farquharson@rgu.ac.uk
tel: 00 44 (0)1224 263602

Research at Gray's School of Art

Gray’s School of Art is the most northerly British art school within a city and region that uniquely combines thriving industry with a strong sense of cultural tradition. Our location as an art school in this context is distinctive. We have used our apparently marginalised location to uniquely inform our research. What characterises much of this is the importance of specific context and the depth of inquiry into context as the locus of meaning and creativity. The cultural alliances, partnerships and networks resulting from these inquiries cross cut the specifically local with national and international networks and modes of organisation.

Gray's research sets out to inform understanding of creativity through the empirical experience of practice in relation to critical thought and cultures of dissemination. Some research achieves this by articulating the relationship of individual practice to histories of conceptual art and means of representation. Other research is located within the complex interconnections between art and political, social and economic domains. The overarching approach is not primarily concerned with problem solving. By
working within processes that are generative and critical, the researchers aim to find, model and provoke new points of connection between art and culture.

Professor Carole Gray, Director of Research
(on behalf of the School Research Executive Group)