Dr Paul Alexander Stewart
paulstewart.art@gmail.com
p.stewart@tees.ac.uk
Work and Projects:
Bad Spirits: co-founder (with Dawn Bothwell) 10/2018 – present
MIMA School of Art: Lecturer Fine Art and BA Course Leader 07/2017– present
MIMA: Research Associate (Creative Fuse) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Middlesbrough Art Weekender: Co- founder and Director (ACE funded) 10/2016 – 02/2019
MIMA: Digital Fellow 01/2015 – 09/2015
Tate Gallery: Learning Research coordinator 03/2013 – 04/2015
The Alternative Art College: Founder 02/2011 – 08/2014
Writing/published works
Book Art and Radical Education, Bloomsbury, 2024.
Book Chapter, The changing fate of learning in Alternative Art Schools and pedagogy, Routledge. 2023.
Editorial Curating in Digital Communities, oncurating.org, translated version and updated editorial.
Book Art, Capital and Critical Pedagogy, Routledge June 2020.
Book Chapter, Digital and automation in art, Springer, 2020.
Editor, Curating in Digital Communities, oncurating.org, publish date 2020
Book Chapter, Art and Activism: beyond the gallery walls, Sense Publishing, Rotterdam, 2016.
Co-editor and contributor, OnCurating Issue 31, Estrangement: Art Politics and Curating, July 2016.
To Depart, Text published by Interkors Magazine, Denver US, October 2015.
Talks
Keynote: Art, Education and Democracy, Externardo University, Columbia November 2020.
Gender and the digital in art, LCCT, Goldsmiths July 2019.
Art and its own production, Raymond Williams Society, April 2019.
Digital Curating, British Museum, September 2018.
Artist-led regeneration, Creative FUSE. Watershed, Bristol Creative, Knowledge, Cities, July 2018/
Art Performance and Pedagogy. London Conference of Critical Thought, Westminster University, June 2018.
Creative FUSE, Colbolt Studios, March 2018.
Artist Talk, University of Northumbria, January 2018.
Curating the interval, Zurich, ZdHK, January 2018
Conversations in Painting, Middlesbrough, Platform A, November 2017
Learn to Act Conference, Sheffield University. June 2017
Alternative Pedagogies, NewBridge Projects Newcastle, Feb 2017.
OnCurating Launch, Motto Books Berlin, 23rd July 2016.
Critical Education conference, Middlesex University, 8-11 August 2016.
Paper Presentation, London Conference of Critical Thought, Recuperation stream, Birkbeck, June 24-25 2016.
Commissions and events
October 2022, Learning to Act Performance, Shipley gallery.
June 2022 Learning to Act Performance, The Newbridge Projects.
June 2022, Performance, Natures Voice, Natural England Conference Ormsby Hall.
March 2022, Performance as part of the Ignorant Art School Exhibition, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
April – June 2021, Curation Power and care, Bowes Museum.
June 2020, Study Event Anti- University Festival, Newbridge Projects.
February 2020, Durham Castle Commission
June, 2019, Bad Spirits with Barbara Steveni, Baltic BxNU 39.
June 2019, Susie Green, Bad Spirits.
March 2019, School of the Damned, Bad Spirits.
November 2018, Harold Offeh, Bad Spirits.
October 2018, Co-Director and Lead Curator, Middlesbrough Art Weekender.
January 2018, Northumbria University, ‘What you want, Baby I got it…’
January 2018, ZdHK (Zurich), Performing through knowledge 2.0
November 2017, Baltic (commissioned by New Contemporaries for Syllabus) Performing Through Knowledge.
August 2017, Goldsmiths College, Insomnia.
June 2017, Newbridge Projects, anti- university performance.
May 2017 Co-Director and Lead Curator, Middlesbrough Art Weekender.
July 2016, Kunstverien am Rosa Luxembourg Platz -Individuating (Group Show).
March – September 2015, mima (Middleborough Institute of Modern Art) Situation Unit.
March 2015, Tate Modern- Rethinking Series: Ethnography.
December 2014, Tate Modern – Rethinking Series: Practice As Research
Awards
- Participatory Research and Co-Production seed funding 2022 (£3.2k)
- AHRC and ERDF Creative Fuse North East co-investigator 2020 (£200k).
- ACE G4A Awarded, Middlesbrough Art Weekender (£75k). 2018
- ACE G4A Award Middlesbrough Art Weekender (£35k). 2017
- Fully Funded PhD by Practice – 2014-2017.
- AHRC Cultural Value Live Art and Film Making, Tate (£30k). 2013
- British council Funding uncovered project Lewisham (£15k). 2012
- ADM Academy Competition winner. 2011
PhD Art and Critical Pedagogy: Alternative Art School Models
Teesside University
2014-2018
MA Art and Politics. (Merit)
Goldsmiths College London
2011 -2012
Post Graduate Certificate: Teaching in Higher Education
Teesside University
2019 -2021
BA (Hons) Fine Art. (1st Class.)
University of Lincoln
2008 – 2011
Non-standard education
Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art.
Taught by Nicolas Bourriard, Helen Hester, Yuk Hui, Krist Gruijthuijsen and others.
Import Projects, Berlin (2016)
European Graduate School post grad art programme.
Taught by Hito Steyerl, Anslam Franke, Barry Schwabsky, Charles Gaines, Benjamin Britton and others.
Saas- Fee, Switzerland (2015)
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