Projects per year
Personal profile
Academic Biography
Dr Paul Stewart is an artist and researcher based In Newcastle. He is a Principal lecturer and co-leads the UG Fine Art programme and the UG ad PG Curating suite at MIMA School of Art and Design, Teesside University. 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 New book with Routledge: Art, Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism was published in Dec 2020.
PhD and Research Opportunities
PhD Areas
- Postdigital practice
- Arts and Moving Image
- Hegemonic and agonisitic practices
- Curatorial stratagies
- arts and public engagement
- pedagogical apporaches 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
External Roles and Professional Activities
- Peer Reviewer for Arts and Humanites Education Journal - Sage Publication
- Co-investigator for Creative Fuse North east
- Editior for OnCurating.org
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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Projects
- 2 Active
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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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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
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Bad Spirits: Saleh: Contemporary art in focus
Stewart, P. A. & Bothwell, D., 22 Feb 2020Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Curating the Digital: Curating and Art Practice: Contemporary Considerations on Automation, Place, and Digital Communication
Stewart, P. A. (ed.), 22 Apr 2020, In: oncurating.org. 45, 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Knowledge Exchange and Knowing: The Self, Art Practice and the Digital
Stewart, P. A. & Bothwell, D., 5 Oct 2020, Knowledge Socialism The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence 123. Jandric, P., Peters, M., Beasley, T. & Zhu, X. (eds.). Springer, p. 277-301 22 p. (East-West Dialogues in Educational Philosophy and Theory; vol. 2).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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
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