About

I am a Professor of Contemporary Art and Head of Arts Research in the School of Arts within the College of Arts, Humanities and Education. I also lead the Digital and Material Artistic Research Centre (DMARC) in the School of Arts and co-lead the animal research group with Professor Steve Baker.

Since 2017 I have been a member of Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands (CVAN EM) Steering Group, which I am now Chair (from 2019); from 2018 an elected Executive Board member of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR); from 2020 a selected member of the CHEAD Research Alliance Strategy Group; and an appointed Collaborations Champion for the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE) since 2021. 

I gained a PhD in Fine Art practice and theory from Middlesex University and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I work as an External Examiner for MA Fine Art at De Montfort University, and regularly examine the work of external PhD candidates.

I was made a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art, Caine College of the Arts, Utah State University, in 2021.

Teaching responsibilities

PhD supervision:

• Francesca Steele - Director of Studies
• Stephanie Rushton - Director of Studies
• Eleanor Letham - supervisor
• Annie Morrad - supervisor (external)
• Christine Thomas - supervisor
• Ava Hunt - supervisor
• Robert Cadman - supervisor
• Deb Rogers - Director of Studies

Professional interests

• Art and animals
• Animals within social contexts
• Documenting ephemeral artwork
• Artistic research

Research interests

I work as an artist and artistic researcher. My research focuses on documentation as an act of ephemeral art process, and with animality and empathy (as acted and/or intuitively behaved) in human-animal companion-species relationships. These subjects are analysed through live art, video, sculpture and published texts.

The research with companion species is specifically with dogs (and more recently horses and cats) and the critical and social contexts in which they have relevance. I led the research project, The Alternative Document (2015-2020), which includes exhibitions, published texts and symposia seeking appropriate strategies for the legacies of experiential and transient art practice. My work with interspecies interconnectivity informs animals, an interdisciplinary research group that I co-lead with Professor Steve Baker. 

Membership of professional bodies

• Society for Artistic Research (SAR) Executive Board
• Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands (CVAN EM) Steering Group (Chair 2019-2022)
• CHEAD Research Alliance Strategy Group
• National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE) Collaborations Champion Network
• Editorial Board member for the Journal of Sustainable Cities and Built Environment (JSCBE)

Qualifications

• PhD in Fine Art Practice and Theory, Middlesex University
• MA Fine Art, Birmingham City University
• BA (Hons) Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University 
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 

Recent conferences

2021

• British Animal Studies Network: ‘Loss’, University of Birmingham
• Communitas Guest Lecture by Ang Bartram and Lee Deigaard, Tippets and Eccles Galleries, Logan, Utah

2020

• Life With and Without Animals, University of Derby (organiser)
• Feminist Canine Ethnography: Unravelling human-dog relationships from a gender perspective, University of Amsterdam
• SAR*11, Society for Artistic Research 11^th annual conference, Bergen (conference and programme committees)

2019

• Dogs and the Elderly: the significance of interspecies companionship towards the end of life, for the Creative Ageing seminar series, University of Derby
• Dogs and the Elderly: companionship as practice in practice, InDialogue, Derby Theatre
• Animal Remains conference, University of Sheffield
• SAR*10, Society for Artistic Research 10^th annual conference, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich (conference committee)
• Artist’s talk as part of the Live Lecture Series, Nottingham Trent University

2018

• Social Engagement: ARC Forum, The Hague University
• (Un)Common Worlds – Human-Animal Studies Conference, Turku University
• Beside the Screen, Instituto Universitario da Maia (ISMAI), Porto
• Prancing Poodles and Preposterous Pugs: Live Art and Other Animals, Live Art Development Agency, London (invited speaker)
• Documents, Alternatives: a Symposium of Artistic Process and Practice, Bath School of Art and Design (originator, organiser and speaker)

2017

• 7th Australasian Animal Studies Association Conference: Animal Intersections, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Living with Animals 3: Co-Existence/Seeing with Animals (presenter, session chair, and reviewer for artists' portfolios), Eastern Kentucky University, USA

2016

• The Alternative Document, Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, University of Lincoln 

2015

• The Body: Out of Time and Without a Place, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
• TaPRA annual conference, University of Worcester

Experience in industry

Recent art exhibitions and shows

2021

• Draw | Breath | Animal: Bartram and Deigaard, Tippets and Eccles Galleries, Logan, Utah
• Mink Festival: a Zoo of the Pandemic
• All the Small Things, curator and exhibitor, Artcore, Derby

2020

• Documents, Alternatives #4, online self-curating exhibition, curator and exhibitor
• Antonym: Life With or Without Animals, curator and exhibitor, Artcore, Derby

2019

• Animals of Manchester, Manchester International Festival 19, Whitworth, Manchester
• Otherlings, co-curator and exhibitor, Artcore, Derby
• A Share of the Future, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing

2018

• Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks, Tempting Failure 18, London's Biennial Festival of International Performance Art and Noise, Croydon
• Documents, Alternatives #3, curator and exhibitor, BSAD Gallery, Bath
• Documents, Alternatives #2, curator and exhibitor, Verge Gallery, Sydney

2017

• Documents, Alternatives #1, curator and exhibitor, Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent
• Santa Dogs, Airspace Gallery (24/7 ‘In the Window’ artwork), Stoke on Trent
• Dog Walking for Talking, Nottingham
• Perspectives 2012 - 2017, ONCA Gallery, Brighton
• ABBA (On Tour): the practice of process by Angela Bartram and Andrew Bracey, ProjectSpacePlus, Lincoln
• Animal Intersections, Peanut Gallery and Nexus Arts, Adelaide

2016

• Be Your Dog, KARST Plymouth (and in conjunction with the Live Art Development Agency)
• The Alternative Document, ProjectSpacePlus, Lincoln
• Midpointness, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
• Imagistic, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC
• In Midpointness, Transart Triennial online project

2015

• Performance Ephemera, Practice Gallery, University of Worcester

2014

• Performance at Bauhaus, Dessau
• In Dialogue, Nottingham Contemporary
• GRARLfest, Sound Spiral, University of Lincoln
• Where’s the Art? Modern Art Oxford
• Bartram O’Neill solo event at Gray Zone for Performance Art, Kingston, NY
• Miami Performance International Festival 14, Miami, USA

International experience

I regularly exhibit and speak at conferences internationally.

I am an Executive Board member of the international organisation The Society of Artistic Research.

I was made a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art, Caine College of the Arts, Utah State University, in 2021.

International Peer Review and Consultancy: 

• Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) (peer review)
• Stockholm University of the Arts (PhD programmes external assessor)
• Swiss National Science Fund (peer review)
• Austrian Science Fund (peer review) 
• BA Interior Design, Kingdom University, Bahrain (consultancy) 
• Emotion, Space and Society journal (peer review)
• The Danish National School of Performing Arts journal (consultancy) 
• Project Anywhere global exhibition programme, University of Melbourne (peer review)

International Conference Committee Membership:

• SAR *13, Society for Artistic Research 13^th annual conference, Bauhaus, Weimar - 2022
• SAR *11, Society for Artistic Research 11th annual conference, Bergen - 2020
• SAR *10, Society for Artistic Research 10^th annual conference, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich - 2019

International Art Residencies: 

• For the Dead Travel Fast (an un-dead pilgrimage), Transylvania - 2017
• Horse and Art Research Centre, Barnag, Hungary - 2015
• Gray Zone for Performance Art, Kingston NY, USA - 2014
• Grace Exhibition Space, New York, USA - 2012

Recent publications

• Bartram, A. (2021) ‘Desiring a Connection with Others: Learning from and with dogs through artistic research,’ in Montenegro, M. (Ed) Tabula Rasa, issue 40, September-December 2021, online at https://www.revistatabularasa.org/en/issues/ (in English and Spanish); available in print (in Spanish)

• Bartram, A. (2020) ‘When the Image Takes over the Real: Holography and Its Potential within Acts of Visual Documentation,’ in Pepper, A. (Ed) Holography - A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture, Basel: MDPI Arts 2020, 9(1), 24 (ISSN 2076-0752); (hardback book: ISBN 978-3-03936-226-4) (downloadable book: ISBN 978-3-03936-227-1)

• Bartram, A. (2020) ‘Feature: Angela Bartram - 366:366 (eventually; animated; finally)’, in Pappas-Kelley, J. Art: Transmissions, London, Invert/Extant, online at Invert/Extant
• Bartram, A. (2019) reflecting, remembering, imagining, writing commission, Folkestone: ]performance s p a c e [
• Bartram, A. (2018) (Ed.) The Alternative Document: Studies in Theatre and Performance, special edition 38.3
• Bartram, A. (2018) ‘A Sense of Becoming and Alienation: The Retrospective in the Work of Jordan McKenzie,’ in Bartram, A (Ed.) The Alternative Document: Studies in Theatre and Performance, special edition 38.3
• Bartram, A. (2018) ‘Introduction,’ in Bartram, A (Ed.) The Alternative Document: Studies in Theatre and Performance, special edition 38.3
• Bartram, A. (2018) ‘Unsatisfactory Devices: Legacy and the Undocumentable in Art,’ in Cammaer, G. Fitzpatrick, B. and Lessard, B. (Eds.) Critical Distance, London: Palgrave MacMillan
• Bartram, A. & O’Neill, M. (2016) ‘Unsettling Action and Text’ in Bacharach, S., Booth, N. Fjaerstad, S. B. (eds) Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century, New York: Routledge
• Bartram, A. & O’Neill, M. (2016) ‘Here and There: Two Works, Ten Countries’ in Michelkevic, L. (ed.) Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis / 80 2016
• Bartram, A., El-Bizri, N., Gittens, D. (Eds.) (2014) Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook, Farnham: Ashgate
• Bartram, A. (2012) ‘Between Bodies: an artist’s account of the oral connection between human and dog’
• Chatzichristodoulou, M. and Zerihan, R. (eds.) Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance, London: Palgrave MacMillan
• Bartram, A. & O’Neill, M. (2012) ‘ Response Oral / Response’ in Loveless, N. (ed.) Total Art Journal, Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2012, online at Total Art Journal
• Bartram, A. (2011) ‘One Woman and Her Dogs’, in Meynell, K. (ed.) Mutual Dependencies, London: Artwords Press, pp.120-127