who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Laurence Figgis
The Glasgow School of Art, 167
Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RQ,
United Kingdom
Keywords samizdat, zine, selfpublishing
Mick Finch
Keywords tableau, medium, medium
specificty, practice, theory, painting,
abstraction as representation
Joanne Finkelstein
University of Greenwich, School of
Humanities and Social Sciences,
London, SE10 9LS, United Kingdom
Keywords deception, appearances,
identity, image
Laurence Figgis is an artist and writer based in Glasgow and is
Lecturer in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School
of Art. Exhibitions include Flying/ Stealing, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
(2006), The Great Macguffin, Transmission Gallery Glasgow (2005),
and Franz Ferdinand, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2004). Figgis works
in collage, drawing, text-based media and sculpture using both visual
and verbal elements to develop his own fictional and imaginative
narratives. He has written and lectured on a range of subjects, including
contemporary painting in Scotland and the interpretation of folklore in
film.
› Hampstead Revisited, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 2.3, 301-325.
Mick Finch's research interests include painting, abstraction as
representation, hegemonic structures, materiality of images, pictorial
dispositifs, economies of transcription, archives and appropriation. His
current research focuses on a discursive field of painting particularly in
terms of issues of abstraction, as representation, in relationship to, and
as, hegemonic structures. This has constituted his research in terms of
his studio practice in paintings made between 1996 2005 but also in the
form of a number of published texts.
› Writing on Practice, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 8.1&2, 3-5.
› Studio notes: Closer Than You Think, Ply- series, Riposte, Sublimey and
Nevermind, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 8.1&2, 83-98.
Joanne Finkelstein is a sociologist trained in the ‘Chicago School’. She
has published six monographs including Dining Out: A Sociology of
Modern Manners (1989, Polity, Oxford); The Fashioned Self (1991,
Polity, Oxford); After a Fashion (1994, Melbourne University Press);
The Sociological Bent: A Study of Metro Culture (2005, Thomson,
Sydney); and The Art of Self Invention (2007, IB Tauris, London). She
has undertaken research consultancies in the food, science,
communications and insurance industries. She is currently Executive
Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of
Greenwich.
› Fashioned identity and the unreliable image, Critical Studies in Fashion &
Beauty, 1.2, 161-171.