Speaker

Moyra Derby

Biography

Looking elsewhere: notes on distraction

Moyra Derby is an artist and researcher working with pictorial structures that engage with the cognitive aspects of painting’s participatory potential. Completing a practice based PhD at the University of Kent in 2022 that reimagined attentional capacities for painting, this signals a research interest in the multi modalities, fluctuations and temporality of attentional processes. Moyra is currently Senior Lecturer in Painting at the University for the Creative Arts. Recent writing includes The Productive Inadequacy of Image for Contemporary Painting, Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts 2021 and Models of Attention, Journal of Contemporary Painting 2019