Feminist pedagogies into and out of the Art School

Felicity Allen is an artist (painting, writing, film) making solo, collaborative, and sometimes institutional work. Current work includes curating The Disoeuvre: Household exhibition series. Her sixth series of Dialogic Portraits, made as artist in residence with the research project People Like You, is the basis for her 2021 film Figure to Ground – a Site Losing its System. She exhibits and lectures on different continents, and has contributed to international publications. Founding director of Engage, she has lectured in fine art HE, informal education, and gallery education. She edited Education (Documents of Contemporary Art), MIT/Whitechapel, 2011.

Majella Clancy is a lecturer in Fine Art Painting at Ulster University, Belfast. From 2015–2019 she was a lecturer on BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking at Plymouth College of Art. From 2018–2019 she was Programme Leader. In 2012 she completed a practice led PhD at Ulster University that examined ideas of gendered space and painting practice. In June 2022 Clancy presented ‘The Act, The Idea and The Thing: Painting as Research’ at the International Congress on Contemporary European painting, University of Porto, Portugal.

Dr Lina Džuverović is a curator and academic based at Birkbeck, University of London, where she co-directs BIRMAC- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture and organises the Decolonial Feminist Forum. Lina’s research focuses on explorations of collectivity, cultural labour and sphere of contemporary art as a site of solidarity and community-building. She received the Bard College’s Centre for Arts and Human Rights Faculty Fellowship (2022) for the And Others: The Gendered Politics and Practices of Art Collectives research project. Previously Lina was Artistic Director of London’s Calvert 22 Foundation; founding Director of Electra, London; Media Arts Curator at ICA, London; co-curator of Momentum Biennial 2009; and has taught contemporary art at universities in the UK and Austria.

Dr Althea Greenan works in Special Collections and Archives at Goldsmiths University of London curating the Women’s Art Library collection. She programmes artistic research through supporting artists, students and academics working with the wide range of materials and archives in the WAL The collection brings together many different examples of how artists create documentation that produces an educational resource that sustains ways of teaching feminist methodologies. This work is the subject of a film directed by Holly Antrum commissioned by the Art360 Foundation titled Yes to the Work!. https://www.art360foundation.org.uk/

Helena Reckitt has worked as a curator, public programmer, and academic editor in the UK, the US, and Canada, and is currently Reader in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2015 she has coordinated the Feminist Duration Reading Group, dedicated to under-represented feminisms. The group’s free monthly programme has encompassed film screenings, performances, workshops, translations, walks, meals, podcasts, writing and listening, as well as out loud reading. Currently in residence at Goldsmiths CCA, the FDRG is part of a new network on art and feminism in the context of Central and Eastern Europe.

Lucy Reynolds’ research focuses on questions of the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice. She edited the anthology Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image, co-edited Artists’ Moving Image in Britain since 1989 and co-edits the Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ). She co-ordinates the PhD programme for the Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster. As an artist, her ongoing sound work A Feminist Chorus has been heard at the Glasgow International Festival, the Wysing Arts Centre and Grand Union galleries, Birmingham.

Hilary Robinson is Professor of Feminism, Art, & Theory, and Director, Centre for Doctoral Training: Feminism, Sexual Politics & Visual Culture, at Loughborough University. Her publications include Visibly Female: Women and Art Today (ed., 1987); Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: The Politics of Art by Women (2006); Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2014 (ed., 2015); A Companion to Feminist Art (co-ed., 2019); The Art of Feminism (co-author, 2022). She describes herself as a recovering Dean – positions she held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and at Middlesex University, London. She is currently finishing two books: Feminisms, Museums, Surveys (co-ed. w/Lara Perry, 2023); Feminism/Art: A History (2024).