Lecturers in BA Fine Art

We are seeking to appoint Lecturers for the 2D, 3D and XD Pathways. We are looking for dynamic, highly skilled and experienced academic practitioners to join BA Fine Art. The pathway structure on BA Fine Art creates a focus for sustained critical engagement. It allows students to both specialise and develop an interdisciplinary working practice. You will play a key role in the programme, undertaking teaching, assessment, and curriculum development. You will work closely with colleagues from the Programme, Academic Support, Student Services and the college community.

BA Fine Art is an established and globally respected course that has influenced and informed practice and research across a breadth of intellectual and creative territories. It recognises the broad diversity of social, political, cultural, economic and technological contexts in which contemporary art is made and exhibited. Working together, staff and students interrogate the multiple and varied ways in which artists make work and make work public. The Art Programme takes a radical, interdisciplinary, experimental and frequently collaborative approach to creative making. This perspective is reflected in the community of teaching and technical staff that input into the BA Fine Art course.

The course is organised into four studios; 2D, 3D, 4D and XD. Each studio engages students with specific critical perspectives and technical inductions. Students are encouraged to develop their work in relation to different forms of practice across any range of media. The studios embody an inter-disciplinary approach encouraging speculative methods, acknowledging complexity and interconnectedness.

2D explores how making is informed by contemporary culture, politics and social forms as much as by questions of the image and abstraction. It considers the screen, the picture plane and surface as fundamental aspects of visual production. Technical inductions are positioned in terms of these questions.

3D explores matter, scale, production, material and immaterial form in relation to place and audience. Students are inducted into a range of traditional and new 3D technologies, and to the debates surrounding hybrid production processes. The studio is a place where the reading, writing and creation of spaces can take place and be questioned. 3D challenges a conventional understanding of the studio, the exhibition and institutional spaces.

XD explores the possibilities of not only ‘what does art mean?’ but also ‘what can art do?’ and ‘where can art be?’ The implications of working across different sites and placing art in particular situations and communities questions the rights and responsibilities of the artist in relation to audiences and the environment. The studio is considered as a laboratory where ideas for interventions in the practice of everyday life can be generated.

These positions will be 4 x permanent part time, all at Grade 5:

• 3 x 0.5FTE for Lecturers in Fine Art - 2D, 3D or XD, and • 1 x 0.8FTE for Lecturer in Fine Art - XD

Details of the role and responsibilities are outlined in Job Description

If you wish to apply for this post, please complete the application form. In your supporting statement, please provide a paragraph or two explaining why you are interested in the role, and how it relates to your skills, experience, interests and outlining how you meet the requirements of the role. Please also specify as to which pathway role you are applying for.

The closing date is 27 May 2025 at 23:55 (BST) 

If you wish to have a discussion about the specific requirements of role, please do feel free to contact Helena Goldwater, Course Leader BA Fine Art, at: h.goldwater@csm.arts.ac.uk

If you have any queries about the process to apply for this role please email the CSM Resourcing Team at: jobenquiries@csm.arts.ac.uk