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lain is Reader in Visual Art Practice and a painter who occasionally works in enamel, a printmaker, a maker and publisher of artist's books and a writer. He has a BA Hons. Fine Art from Leeds University, an MA from the RCA and has taught in art schools across the UK. He has a particular interest in issues of memory, place and identity as relating to contemporary art and has published on this and on individual artists, including Ken Kiff, Andrea Thoma, Helen Gardner, Sian Bonnell, Kate Mellor and Amal Ghosh.
Iain is currently Director of Studies, for the Taught Research Programme for the Faculty of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England, Bristol and from 1999 to 2001 was award leader for the faculty's MA Landscape Studies. He is an external examiner for MA awards at Falmouth School of Arts and Oxford Brookes University and the DFA at the University of East London and a member of the AHRB Peer Review College. He currently supervises six practice-based research students, has acted as an external examiner for research degrees at Derby, Leeds, Ulster and Brighton, and represents UWE, Bristol on the Steering Group of the New Route PhD Consortium.
lain co-convenes LAND2, a national network of artists
associated with Higher Education who work not only in
painting, print and photography but a variety of other
media and are concerned with radical approaches to land
and landscape, with a particular focus on memory, place
and identity. LAND2 had its first conference and
group exhibition at Dean Clough, Halifax in November
2004.
lain's professional practice has included
working as a project coordinator and participating artist
on four public art and design projects for Lloyds TSB (in
Bristol, Birmingham and London), on behalf of Creative
Urban Space Projects (CUSP). He is also the internal
coordinator for CUSP, continues his personal art practice,
has published on educational issues in refereed journals
and anthologies, and currently sits on the editorial board
of The Journal of Visual Art Practice for the National
Association of Fine Art Education and the electronic
journal of the European League of Institutes of the
Arts.
For more information about Iain Biggs please visit one of these links: UWE or 8lostsongs