Professor Anne Douglas
| Biography | Anne Douglas is an artist and independent researcher focusing on the changing nature of contemporary art in public life, increasingly concerned with environmental issues. From 2000 to her retirement in 2017, she led a doctoral/postdoctoral programme of research at Gray's School of Art entitled, "On the Edge" , exploring different ways in which artists internationally contribute critically to the human and more-than-human, by working across disciplines and within organisations. As a mid -career artist, she undertook one of the first PhDs through the practice of art (Sunderland University 1992). Prior to that she was artist-in-residence (1984) and Rome scholar in sculpture (1976-8), both at The British School, Rome. |
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| Research Interests | Alongside research into art in public life, she is curious about the meaning and practice of formal research to the development of art in society , including visual art and experimental music. She has led projects and published on improvisation, notions of experimentation across art and science, artistic leadership, the absurd, and drawing as a contemporary practice. Increasingly art / environmental research has drawn on the philosophy of science, in particular the work of Tim Ingold, Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers and the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. In 2015-17 Douglas co-produced, "The Deep Wealth of this Nation, Scotland" , a work of the pioneering artists and ecologists Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, with the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure, University of California, Santa Cruz and Mark Hope. |
| Scopus Author ID | 55315263400 |