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Karen Raney

Senior Lecturer

Department of Architecture & Visual Arts , School of Arts and Creative Industries

Programme Leader for the Professional Doctorate in Fine Art.

  • MA Creative Writing Goldsmiths College
  • MA Visual Theory UEL
  • DipAD John Cass School of Art
  • BSc Duke University, USA

Areas Of Interest

  • Psychoanalytic models of Imagination
  • Contemporary art
  • Museum and gallery education
  • Visual literacy, Pedagogy of art theory and practice
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CURRENT RESEARCH

  • 2021 Runner-up for the Society of Authors Paul Torday Literary prize
  • 2021 Nominated for the Society of Authors McKitterick Literary prize
  • 2020 shortlisted for Costa Book Award
  • 2017 winner, Pat Kavanaugh Literary Prize

CONFERENCES

Selected Conferences

  • 2014 'Cross-talking: gallery education and curatorial strategies' at Curating Art History colloquium, University of Birmingham
  • May 2013 Keynote address, 'Double Agents: Research in the Service of Art'. Engaging Methodology conference, University of Brighton.
  • April 2012 'Integrating Theory and Practice in a Fine Art Doctorate', Conference paper, UKCGE's 3rd conference on professional doctorates, European University, Florence.
  • Feb 2004 Speaker and group chair, The Treason of Images, Tate Modern, London
  • June 2001 speaker, Picturing Literacy, Tate Modern, London
  • Sept. 1998 'Ambiguity in drawing' - keynote address, at DRAW-UM: a research forum for the discussion of priorities and values in Art & Design Education, Loughborough University
  • June 1997 'Art History into Visual Culture', Art Historians in Action conference, Art Historians Association & Tate Gallery, London
  • April 1997 'Reflections on Painting', Arts, Media and Representation Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa
  • Aug 1996 'Framing visual and verbal experience', AN's Round Midnight Education Colloquium, Charlotte Mason College, Cumbria

  • MA Fine Art

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  • Prof Doc Fine Art

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PUBLICATIONS

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