Maggie Ayliffe

Maggie Ayliffe, is Associate Dean and the Head of Wolverhampton School of Art. She is a painter with a broad range of research interests including feminist art practice and art school pedagogies. She studied fine art at Humberside Polytechnic and holds both Masters and MPhil qualifications from Manchester Metropolitan University. Ayliffe’s work focuses upon questions of gender and the feminine within the broad field of visual culture. She is an experienced lecturer in Fine Art practice and Visual Culture and is an active member of a wider research community – having contributed to numerous symposia and public debates. More recently, Ayliffe has been working collaboratively with Dr Christian Mieves, Newcastle University to develop a theoretical understanding of studio based teaching and the role of the studio in creating creative communities and places of mentorship and learning through a residency and symposium based project: Dirty Practice.