Art and Creative Practices

The University of Brighton is a creative and intellectually vibrant focus for a PhD in Art and Creative Practices.

Past successes in PhD in Art and Creative Practices Art and Creative Practices at the University of Brighton University of Brighton include PhDs in the areas of fine art, illustration, graphic design, visual communication, photography and film, digital and interactive arts, 3D design and craft, fashion and textiles, design and communication, drawing on the staff of different schools and sharing a creative vision and ethos that permeates the whole university.

Key facts

Our research and enterprise has, at its heart, an engagement with making and critical thinking that brings together creative inquiry, experimentation with material, process and technology with theory and critical writing. It provides new ways of understanding creative processes that offer insights into cultural and human emotion, thought and action.

Research activities within Art and Creative Practices include the production of innovative artefacts, both digital and physical, design, craft, inclusive practices, exhibitions, installation and performance, as well as creative writing, published texts, books and journal articles. Characterised by a blend of scholarship, knowledge exchange, traditional and cutting-edge practices, our research has been influential in collaborative developments with diverse communities and partners locally, nationally and internationally. It is our belief that knowledge generated through the development of creative and critical practice enhances and shapes every aspect of our contemporary culture and future lives.

Particular areas of specialism currently include:

• artistic engagements with environment, memory, narrative,

• arts practices and science, health and wellbeing

• research into, through and with drawing

• inclusive arts practice and social contexts

• interactive digital arts and audience engagement

• networked media arts practices and interventions

• mediated performances, visions and the role of the body as site

• politics of representation, curatorship and exhibition making

• creative writing and autoethnography