Stephen Felmingham
Plymouth
Artist and educator - drawing artist and Academic Dean at Plymouth College of Art
I work with ideas of social renewal and bringing cultural forms into economic and political arenas. Drawing is the basis for this socially-engaged practice, as a language that is the first visible form of thinking, widening the terms of drawing to the social realm and as a mediator in creating social organisations. Thus the areas of economic, political and cultural life in society become mediated by a wider idea of drawing where speaking, drawing and thinking become the artwork. It holds as central the idea that aesthetics lies in the realm of the social. Recent drawings have focused on the ruins of Cold War sites, bunkers, societal memory and trans-generational trauma: research from this project was published by Rowman and Littlefield and is the subject of the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Cold Art'.
Stephen Felmingham studied at Middlesex University and the University of the Arts London (Wimbledon); he completed an MA in Drawing at Wimbledon in 1999 and a practice-led PhD at the University of Leeds in 2014. He is an active member of the LAND2 Research Network of place-based researchers and peer reviews for the TRACEY journal. He writes and reviews on drawing and fine art pedagogy and has a chapter contribution to the recent publication of 'In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker: Materiality, Affect and Meaning-Making' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
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