About Professor Andrew Livingstone
I am Professor of Ceramics and lead CARCuos, the Ceramics Arts Research Centre at the University.
I have exhibited work both nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery, London, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, and Garth Clark Gallery, New York.
My work is included in several collections worldwide, including Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
I have delivered several papers internationally at conferences and contributed to, edited and authored several books including most recently The Ceramics Reader, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017. I am a member of the AIC/IAC International Academy of Ceramics.
Teaching and supervision
Until 2016, I taught on BA (Hons) Glass and Ceramics and MA Glass and Ceramics. I now supervise MPhil and PhD students, attaining 16 successful completions.
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Research
My research interests include the examination and expansion of contemporary locations in respect of the traditional positioning of ceramics – this is explored both through practice and the development of critical theory within the expanded ceramic arena. This also extends to the development and expansion of critical art and craft discourse.
I am particularly interested in the area of conceptual practice within ceramics and as a consequence the development of theory around this emerging arena. My ongoing research explores the integration of new media and non-ceramic intervention into ceramics and how this challenges and enhances both practice and theory.
Further areas of research include creative pedagogy, particularly at postgraduate and doctoral level.