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School of Arts & Humanities
Not an easy task to select a small number of works from such a varied show, but these give some insight into the range of materials at work in the School and the breadth and depth of the imaginations at work!
Particularly impressive for me is the ways in which the students found inventive ways to represent their particular interests and identities, whilst connecting outwards to the world from there. These select pieces demonstrate that artistic impulse working at its best, an individual perspective that helps us see collective concerns in new ways. Not to be overlooked is the determination to test the scope of the medium itself, and these students find ways to work within and beyond given paradigms and parameters.
Ken Neil
Professor Ken Neil
Professor Ken Neil has held senior academic posts at The Glasgow School of Art since 2006 and has been Deputy Director (Academic) since 2016. During his tenure he contributed to all aspects of GSA’s academic landscape including learning and teaching, research and academic leadership, developing its international reputation and attracting new research income. This has firmly embedded the GSA as one of the world’s top ten leading higher education institutes for the visual creative disciplines.
Professor Neil has written about contemporary art and theory within the context of education and institutionalisation for a wide range of publications and journals and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Art Practice.
Ken is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Art Practice. Ken is also Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of community arts organisation, Impact Arts. His research and writing relate to three fields: contemporary art and art theory; issues for creative education; and the visual culture of the everyday.
