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 an artist, curator and academic based in London and I teach into the BA, MA and PhD programmes in the School of Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston. My research, positioned at the intersection of visual cultures, ecology studies and spatial politics, explores the relationship between art, space and power. Recent and ongoing projects focus on London Heathrow, its neighbourhoods and airspace. In 2019 I was awarded an Arts Council Project Grant to curate the group exhibition and public programme, Air Matters. Learning from Heathrow, hosted at Watermans Arts, London, Oct. 2019 - Jan 2020. This research has opened onto wider study of the politics of air under neoliberal regimes, and the potential of art and design to contribute to and contest its aesthetic formations.
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 air, airspace and atmospheres
- 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