Ms Bryony Quinn
Senior Lecturer
Bryony Quinn is a writer, editor and Contextual Studies Module Leader and Lecturer on BA Graphic Design.
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College of Arts, Technology and Innovation
University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London, E16 2RD
United Kingdom
E16 2RD - b.quinn@uel.ac.uk +442082232440
Her writing and research focuses on figurative and spatial obliquity — things that lean, slopes, diagonals, digressions, etc — and she has presented her essays at the Turner Contemporary museum, Frieze Art Fair and the Royal College of Art, as well as conference presentations at the Graphic Design Educators Network in London and Illustration Research symposium in Cambridge. In 2018, in collaboration with Peter Nencini, Quinn created a series of typographic installations across Croydon for the Fungus Press residency at Turf Projects.
Quinn has worked with various art, literary and design institutes including Fitzcarraldo Editions, Studio Frith, Cabinet Magazine, Artangel, Liverpool Biennial, Barbican Gallery and It’s Nice That. Presently she lectures and leads research seminars on postgraduate design research on MA Graphic and Media Design at the London College of Communication and is a dissertation supervisor at Camberwell College of Arts.
She holds an MA in Critical Writing in Art & Design from the RCA, where she was a recipient of the annual critical writing prize, editor of Arc (the RCA journal), art director of Albertopolis, a book on the South Kensington area, and co-organiser of a conference on the life and work of John Berger.
Overview
Most Recent Research
November 2018 — ‘Writing & Writing Patterns’, a conference paper presentation, Illustration Research symposium ‘Decriminalising Ornament’, John Ruskin University, Cambridge
June/July 2018 — ‘Bevels, Bypasses’, typographic installations across sites in collaboration with Peter Nencini, Fungus Press residency, Turf Projects, Croydon, London
Previous Research
November 2017 —‘Exquisite Punctuation’, a paper presentation for Hidden Women in Design, London
March 2017 — ‘Meaning Shifting: Metaphor and Design’, keynote conference presentation for the Graphic Design Educators Network conference ‘With a Shift, Simultaneous Realities Collide’, London College of Communication, London
December 2015 — ‘Digression’, symposium keynote presentation for MA Graphic and Media Design ‘In the Age of’ symposium at the London College of Communication, London
October 2015 — ‘Laughing about Falling and then Falling about Laughing’, a talk on diagonals and visual pratfalls at the Frieze Art Fair Reading Rooms with Cabinet Magazine, London
June 2015 —‘Oblique/Oblike’, graduate symposium speaker for MA Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art, London
February 2015 — ‘G A P S’, a talk about architectural lacuna at the Turner Contemporary Museum, Margate
Collaborators
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Research
Publications
cultures; monograms, insignias and hallmarks; etymologies and vocabularies of design.
Interests
Portfolio
Bryony Quinn is the Module Leader for Contextual Studies, BA (Hons) Graphic Design.
Core Modules:
VA4104 — Contextual Studies
VA5104 — Contextual Studies
VA6104 — Visual Cultures Research Project