Dr Kate Fahey
Lecturer & Module Leader, Fine Art MA (online)
Kate Fahey is an artist and researcher working with print, sculpture, moving image, sound and installation. She received an MA in Fine Art Print at the Royal College of Art in 2015 and in 2020 she completed a practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London, supported by an Arts and Humanities Research Council TECHNE Studentship.
She has exhibited her work widely at galleries and project spaces including Arti et Amiticiae, Amsterdam; Visual, Carlow; Commonage London; Gossamer Fog, London; The Royal Scottish Academy; The Bluecoat, Liverpool and the ICA, London. She has completed numerous residencies including ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin; Leitrim Sculpture Centre; The British School at Rome; Guest Projects, London; Callan Workhouse Union, Kilkenny, Cove Park, Hospitalfield, and the Royal Scottish Academy.
Previously, she has taught and guest lectured at Arts University Bournemouth, London College of Communication, Manchester School of Art, Winchester School of Art and Kingston School of Art. Alongside her role at Falmouth University, she is senior lecturer and MFA Fine Art Course Lead at Oxford Brookes University.
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Qualifications
Qualifications
| Year | Qualification | Awarding body |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | HEA Fellowship Advance HE | University of the Arts London |
| 2020 | Practice-based PhD | University of the Arts London |
| 2015 | MA Fine Art Print | Royal College of Art |
| 2013 | BA Fine Art Print | Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University |
Honors and awards
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2020 | New Contemporaries Studio Award with SPACE |
| 2016 | Arts and Humanities Research Council TECHNE Studentship |
Research Interests
Research interests and expertise
My research interests concern embodied feminist methodologies across creative practice. What binds all of my work is an exploration of ways of meaning-making outwith scientific and rational knowledge systems – conventional ways of understanding the world rooted in patriarchal, white, western historical narratives. Through moving image, sound, language, print and sculptural practice, I investigate embodied, esoteric, folkloric and more-than-human ways of knowing.
My practice-based PhD explored situated practice in relation to techno-scientific logic, specifically aerial images and military drone surveillance. It proposed a relational position, drawing on fictioning, feminist science and technology studies, new materialism and posthumanism.
Research topics
- Conflict Studies
- Feminist Science and Technology Studies
- New Materialism
- Posthumanism
- Craft
- Practice-based and embodied research methodologies
- Experimental approaches to print
- Sculptural Practice
- Performative Approaches to Language
Research Students
Current research students
I am currently supervising a number of research students at Oxford Brookes University
Research degrees examined
I have examined one PhD candidate at Oxford Brookes University.
Teaching
Areas of teaching
- Fine Art practice
- Interdisciplinarity
- Practice-based research methodologies
Courses taught
- Fine Art MA (Online)
