Dr Nicholas Ferguson
Contact
- Email: n.ferguson@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Critical Studies and Creative Industries
- Department: Department of Critical and Historical Studies, Department of Fine Art
About
I am a senior lecturer in contemporary art. My praxis crosses the registers of fine art, curating, writing and pedagogy, with a research focus on art and spatial politics. Recent projects have focused on West London suburbs, particularly Heathrow, its neighbourhoods and airspace. In 2019-20 I curated the publicly funded exhibition and public programme 'Air Matters. Learning from Heathrow', Watermans Arts. This work has since opened onto geographies of mobility/immobility, especially following the pandemic. I am a regular contributor to the Art and Mobilities Network and am currently setting up a collaboration between Kingston University's MA in Museum & Galleries Studies and Community Brain, Surbiton. The expectation is a community facing public programme based at Tolworth railway station.
Subject interests:
- Art and spatial politics
- Art in relation to activism, the commons and the public sphere
- Art and cultural policy, including the role of art and art institutions in regional, national and international relations
- Art in relation to environment and political ecology
- Art in relation to mobility and immobility
- Cities, especially London and its peripheries
- Art as research method; decolonising research methodologies.
- Political theology
- Digital humanities
Applications for postgraduate study are welcome.
Academic responsibilities
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art
Qualifications
- PhD. Art. Goldsmiths, University of London
- MA Art. Chelsea College of Art and Design
- BA Hons. Practice and Theory of Visual Art. Chelsea College of Art and Design
- BA Hons. Theology, Oxford University