Susan
Brind
Lecturer and Researcher
School of Fine Art
biography
Using sculptural and time-based meda, disseminated through artefacts, installations, events and publications, I work independently and collaboratively with Jim Harold, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Examples include: Cambridge Darkroom, 1991; Camden Arts Centre, London, 1994; Art Museum of Estonia, 1998; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, commission, 2001; RSA Edinburgh, 2008; CCA Glasgow, 2011; Renmin University, China, 2015; Agios Sozomenos and Potamia, Cyprus, 2018; The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 2020; and in 2020 and 2021, online and hybrid exhibitions and events for Cyprus Buffer Fringe at the Home for Co-operation.
I established GSA’s Reading Landscape group with Nicky Bird in 2014, fostering interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects with external partners. Specifically:
• Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law & Governance;
• INCAScot Contemporary Archaeology network;
• Creative Centre for Fluid Territories – international, inter-disciplinary research questioning place identity; and
• University of Glasgow – “Wastelands and the City” network and seminar series (2023 ongoing).
Research interests
Overarching interest is in the body as a site of understanding in relation to: experience of landscape, definitions of place, place as palimpsest, art/archaeology methods, border territories, and site-specific or -responsive artworks and curatorial strategies.
PGR supervision interests
Supervision interests include: the body as carrier of embodied knowledge; definitions of place, accrued through time, history, culture and nature, particularly relating to contested locations; and the presentation of art within and out-with gallery settings.
Current PGR students
2020 to date Susan Roan (Working title: Listening to Languages of Labour – Between Body, Text and Image: A Visual Exploration of Languages of Birthing Embodiment in Contemporary Oral Narratives of Home Birth in the UK) - Primary Supervisor.
2019 to date Noah Rose (Working title: Making Words Matter: materialising minority language as contemporary sculptural practice in a shifting Europe) - Primary Supervisor.
2019-2024 Helen Angell-Preece (Three Auto-geographies Weaving into (and Out-of) Place: A Post-colonial Approach to Re-mapping Spaces of Home and Belonging) - Primary Supervisor.
