Rate My Professor Stephen Felmingham

Felmingham's research specializations include creative pedagogies, research-led learning, alternative art school models, and socially-engaged art and education. He leads community-focused projects connecting artist-led initiatives, community organizations, and funders through the agency of creativity, with recent outputs in social practice including work with refugee communities that align with the university's aims in creative pedagogy and social justice. He co-founded Beyond the Now, a syndicated online platform fostering creative, cultural, and political affinities across Europe, the MENA region, and the Global South in a post-pandemic context. Notable collaborations encompass British Art Show 9, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Tate Exchange projects, and the China/UK FutureLab Art and Design Education Expo in Shanghai. He is Co-PI on the AHRC-funded 'The Power of Print' with the University of the West of England and research convenor for the Society of Artistic Research. Awards include shortlisting for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2009, finalisting the Celeste Art Prize in New York in 2010, and membership in the LAND2 Research Network since 2009. Key publications feature contributions to Access and Widening Participation in Arts Higher Education (2023), 'Drawing Out: Encounter, Resistance and Collaboration' in Drawing, Research, Theory, Practice (2019), 'Figures of Speech: Can conversation be a democratic mode of drawing?' (2019), and 'Approaching the Bunker: Bodies, Materiality and Meaning-Making in Cold War Ruins' (2017). Felmingham exhibits widely in the UK and Europe, with works in national and international collections, and delivers public lectures such as 'Drawing on Common Sense' and talks on art and design pedagogy.