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Personal profile
Academic Biography
Dr Paul Stewart
Researcher and Curator in critical practice and social engagement with expertise in art, curatorial strategy, digital communication and critical theory for socio-political change. My research focuses on democracy and knowledge exchange, and critical pedagogy as a curatorial and artistic methodology.
Key highlights: Curated over 20 exhibitions across the UK and Europe. Author of Art, Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism (Routledge 2021) co-author a new monograph on Educational Aesthetics with Bloomsbury (due 2024). Founder of the Middlesbrough Art Weekender and The Alternative Art College. Innovation in academic study and curatorial learning.
He is a Principal lecturer and co-leads the MA Curating Apprentice
Completed a PhD in Art and Philosophy (2018) Teesside University and a MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths College as well as a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art from Lincoln University (2011). He co-founded the Middlesbrough Art Weekender in 2017 and has set up collectives including the Alternative Art College (2011-2014) and currently co-running Bad Spirits with Dawn Bothwell.
Core elements in his practice and research include the effects of neoliberalism on Higher Education, democracy and art practice and Critical Pedagogy as a methodology in art making. Alongside research into digital communities in art making and the effects of digital making on curation and collection processes. His book with Routledge: Art, Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism was published in Dec 2020.
PhD and Research Opportunities
PhD Areas
Post digital practice
Arts and Moving Image
Hegemonic and agonistic practices
Curatorial strategies
arts and public engagement
pedagogical approaches to arts production and arts education
Current students
Jonathan Lovell
Second supervisor
Project title: Reconsidering the act of creation, reproduction and dissemination within Image making and a Post-Digital context
Aidan Moesby
Second supervisor
Project title: Under the Clouds: A practice-based investigation at the intersection of Art, Digital and Disability within a weather based metalogue
Russell Pollard
Second supervisor
Project title: The Taste Of Sweat And Sand: An Exploration Of Military Trauma Through Poetry And Performance
Atakan Akcali
Second supervisor
Project title: A Social and Gamified Digital Experience: Digital Engagement in Museums
External Roles and Professional Activities
- Editor for OnCurating.org
- co-organiser for Gentle Gestures Research group
Peer Review for
- Arts and Humanites Education Journal - Sage
- Post Digital Science and Education Journal - Springer
- Art and the Public Sphere - Intellect
- Routledge Books - Art and Design
External positions
External Examiner BA Fine Art (Critical Studies), Goldsmiths, University of London
1 Apr 2022 → 1 Apr 2025
External Examiner BA Fine Art, University of Lincoln
15 Dec 2020 → 15 Dec 2024
Committee Member , DECR Committee for the Association for Arts Historians
1 Aug 2020 → …
Advisory Board , North East CVAN
11 Jan 2018 → …
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Network
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AoA: Assembly of Actions: A Participatory Ethnographic study
Stewart, P. A., Wallers, D. C., Clarke, E. & Emery, M.
1/04/22 → 3/04/23
Project: Research
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Creative Fuse North East 2.0
Paterson, S., McKeown, S., Parvin, W. & Stewart, P. A.
1/02/20 → 31/07/22
Project: Research
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Art, Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism
Stewart, P. A., 1 Nov 2020, Routledge. 176 p. (Visual Modernities)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Assembly of Actions: Learning to DO
Stewart, P. A., 1 Apr 2022Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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London Conference of Critical Thought: Art Practice and Critical Pedagogy
Stewart, P. A., 8 Jul 2022Research output: Other contribution
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Teaching in the Age of Covid-19: The New Normal
Jandrić, P., Fuentes Martinez, A., Reitz, C., Jackson, L., Grauslund, D., Hayes, D., Lukoko, H. O., Hogan, M., Mozelius, P., Arantes, J. A., Levinson, P., Ozoliņš, J. J., Kirylo, J. D., Carr, P. R., Hood, N., Tesar, M., Sturm, S., Abegglen, S., Burns, T., Sinfield, S., & 49 others , 1 Oct 2022, In: Post Digital Science and Education . 4, p. 877–1015Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later
Stewart, P. A., 10 Aug 2021, In: Post Digital Science and Education . p. 1073–1223Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
Open Access
Press/Media
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MIMA offers first curating apprenticeship degrees
Paul Alexander Stewart, Sarah Perks & Elinor Morgan
5/10/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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First Teesside curating course cohort begin their studies
Sarah Perks, Elinor Morgan & Paul Alexander Stewart
13/10/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Tate celebrates National Apprenticeship Week
Sarah Perks & Paul Alexander Stewart
10/02/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Thesis
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Art, Hegemony and the alternative art school: Critical Pedagogy as a methodology in Art Practice
Author: Stewart, P. A., 15 Feb 2019Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis