Dr Bram Arnold
Associate Lecturer, Fine Art BA(Hons)
Dr Bram Thomas Arnold is an artist who started with walking and kept going into performance, drawing, installation, writing, academia and broadcasting. He studied the world’s first MA in Arts & Ecology at Dartington College of Arts, and in 2017 finished his PhD with University of the Arts London. A practice-based study into walking, writing and performance, developing an ecological form of subjectivity: a way of being in the world whereby an individual exists within and amongst places: ones social, geographic and political contexts. This philosophy expresses itself through a practice, Romantic in its outcomes and Conceptual in its methods, that does not restrict itself to traditional boundaries, mediums or modes of practice, a responsive way of being and making that is composed of and by its present context.
His research interests include ecology, autoethnography and performance installation with recent collaborations and publications with the University of Cambridge and the AALERT network’s forthcoming special issue for Landscape Research Journal. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2023.
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Research Interests
Research interests and expertise
Bram's research interests centre around a long term dedication to ecological arts practice,a PhD that focused upon walking, writing and performance through autoethnography and ecology. He has also undertaken partnerships with Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, his work takes comfort in the gaps between disciplines, the melancholy of existence and our relationship to place that is being rebuilt through the generation of radical forms of localism through creative practice, transdisciplinary thinking and emergent ways of being with the more-than-human world.
Research topics
Ecology, Fine Art, Performance, Autoethnography, performance-writing, performance installation, practice-based research.
Areas of teaching
Critical Studies across all three BA years in Fine Art. Fine Art studio practice.
Professional Engagement
Engagement with professional associations and societies
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
