contact details
email: c.gray@rgu.ac.uk
tel: 00 44 (0)1224 263649

web site:
Professorial Lecture
www.connectivityproject.com
www.visualizingresearch.info
www.ontheedgeresearch.org
www.maakinlab.org

Prof CAROLE GRAY

Biographical Statement
Carole Gray studied Fine Art at Reading University (1974-78) and Experimental Media at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1978-80). She is a practising artist and has made exterior site-specific structures as well as smaller scale interior sculptural lights. In 1988 she completed a part-time PhD at Aberdeen University on teaching styles in higher education (Art & Design), and since then has been involved in developing postgraduate education and postdoctoral research. Carole was a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council Postgraduate Panel for Visual Arts & Media (2000-2004) and currently serves on its Peer Review College. She is a member of the Art and Design panel for the UK’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. She contributes to research development at various UK and international art and design institutions in, for example, Finland, Sweden, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Latvia, and Australia (forthcoming).

  

Light Cake, 2007  Perspex, LEDs, aluminium (24 x 12 x 12 cm)

Personal Statement
I am an artist, teacher and researcher and consider these roles to be interrelated and mutually dependent facets of my creativity (see Professorial Lecture)

My practice as an artist has involved both individual and collaborative work exploring context specific art using contemporary technologies and materials. The Connectivity project (part of the international conference Challenging Craft, Sept 2004) challenged me to grapple with computer aided design and manufacture to make a new work responding to the theme ‘a sense of place’ - www.connectivityproject.com. My recent work comprises a series of sculptural lights made for specific people, occasions and sites.

This pre-occupation with making is part of an ongoing creative and critical dialogue - ‘Making Sense’ - with Gordon Burnett, Reader in Craft, in which we explore ‘material thinking’ through practice and reflection.

I have a longstanding interest in experiential learning in Art and Design education, especially at postgraduate levels. The core of this work has been concerned with encouraging creative and visual approaches to research and its relationship to practice. This experience has resulted in a book, co-authored by Professor Julian Malins, Reader in Design at Gray’s - Visualizing Research: a guide to the research process in Art and Design (2004) and related web site – www.visualizingresearch.info.

I am part of the On the Edge (OTE) research team, working with Professor Anne Douglas, Reader in Art and Public Pedagogy at Gray’s. OTE is a major research programme that explores art in the public realm - www.ontheedgeresearch.org.

My RAE research outputs contribute to the Art and Design Pedagogy thematic.

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